Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.

An annual or a perennial herb ; up to 3 m long . Stems erect trailing or climbing , striate , glabrous , scabrous , pubescent or hairy . Leaves compound ; leaflets 3 , 1 . 5–16 . 5 x 1–12 . 5 cm , ovate , rhombic or lanceolate to linear , the laterals oblique , all entire or terminal leaflets subhastate to deeply 3-lobed at the base and laterals lobed on the outer margin , shortly acuminate or subacute and mucronulate , acute to rounded at the base , glabrous to pubescent on both surfaces ; petiole 1 . 5–13 cm long ; rhachis 0 . 6–2 . 5 cm long ; stipules submedifixed , constricted at the point of attachment , multinerved . Inflorescences axillary , few-severalaxillary , few-several-flowered ; pedicel 1–3 mm long . Flowers pink to purple , rarely white , 15–33 mm long ; calyx glabrous or pubescent ; tube 2–5 . 5 mm long ; lobes subequal , ciliolate , the upper pair joined for about half their length to form a broad lobe bifid at the apex or only at the base ; corolla standard with 2 parallel widely ... spaced appendages . Fruit Pod , 8–10 x 2 . 5–5 mm , linear-cylindrical , glabrous , scabrous , or pubescent . Seeds 4–6 . 5 x 2–4 . 5 mm , white to dark red or black , often mottled with black or brown , oblong or reniform . (Ref . POWO ; 2023) .

No Data

Not Evaluated (NE)

Not Common

Dolichos unguiculatus L.
Phaseolus unguiculatus (L.) Piper
Vigna unguiculata subvar. typica Bertoni