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''Vigna'' is a genus of plants in the legume family, Fabaceae, with a pantropical distribution.Aitawade, M. M., et al. (2012)
Section ''Ceratotropis'' of subgenus ''Ceratotropis'' of ''Vigna'' (Leguminosae–Papilionoideae) in India with a new species from northern Western Ghats.
''Rheedea'' 22(1), 20-27. It includes some well-known cultivated species, including many types of beans. Some are former members of the genus ''Phaseolus''. According to ''Hortus Third'', ''Vigna'' differs from ''Phaseolus'' in biochemistry and pollen structure, and in details of the style and stipules.

''Vigna'' is also commonly confused with the genus '' Dolichos'', but the two differ in stigma structure.

''Vigna'' are herbs or occasionally subshrubs. The leaves are pinnate, divided into 3 leaflets. The inflorescence is a raceme of yellow, blue, or purple pea flowers. The fruit is a legume pod of varying shape containing seeds.''Vigna''.
Flora of China.

Familiar food species include the adzuki bean (''V. angularis''), the black gram (''V. mungo''), the cowpea (''V. unguiculata'', including the variety known as the black-eyed pea), and the mung bean (''V. radiata''). Each of these may be used as a whole bean, a bean paste, or as bean sprouts.

The genus is named after Domenico Vigna, a seventeenth-century Italian botanist and director of the Orto botanico di Pisa.

Uses

Root tubers of ''Vigna'' species have traditionally been used as food for Aborigines of the Northern Territory. NTFlora Northern Territory Flora online:
''Flora of the Darwin Region: Fabaceae.''
Retrieved 10 June 2018

Selected species

The genus ''Vigna'' contains at least 90 species, including:

Subgenus ''Ceratotropis''

*'' Vigna aconitifolia'' (Jacq.) Maréchal—moth bean, mat bean, Turkish gram
*''Vigna angularis'' (Willd.) Ohwi & H. Ohashi—adzuki bean, red bean
**''Vigna angularis'' var. ''angularis'' (Willd.) Ohwi & H. Ohashi
**''Vigna angularis'' var. ''nipponensis'' (Ohwi) Ohwi & H. Ohashi
*''Vigna glabrescens'' Maréchal ''et al''.
*''Vigna grandiflora'' (Prain) Tateishi & Maxted
*''Vigna hirtella'' Ridley
*''Vigna minima'' (Roxb.) Ohwi & H. Ohashi
*'' Vigna mungo'' (L.) Hepper—black gram, black lentil, white lentil, urd-bean, urad bean
**''Vigna mungo'' var. ''silvestris'' Lukoki, Maréchal & Otoul
*''Vigna nakashimae'' (Ohwi) Ohwi & H. Ohashi
*''Vigna nepalensis'' Tateishi & Maxted
*''Vigna radiata'' (L.) Wilczek—mung bean, green gram, golden gram, mash bean, green soy, celera-bean, Jerusalem-pea
**''Vigna radiata'' var. ''radiata'' (L.) Wilczek
**''Vigna radiata'' var. ''sublobata'' (Roxb.) Verdc.
*''Vigna reflexopilosa'' Hayata—Creole-bean
**''Vigna reflexopilosa'' var. ''reflexopilosa'' Hayata
**''Vigna reflexopilosa'' var. ''glabra'' Tomooka & Maxted
*''Vigna riukiuensis'' (Ohwi) Ohwi & H. Ohashi
*''Vigna stipulacea'' Kuntze
*''Vigna subramaniana'' (Babu ex Raizada) M. Sharma
*'' Vigna tenuicaulis'' N. Tomooka & Maxted
*''Vigna trilobata'' (L.) Verdc.—jungle mat bean, jungli-bean, African gram, three-lobe-leaved cowpea
*''Vigna trinervia'' (Heyne ex Wall.) Tateishi & Maxted
*''Vigna umbellata'' (Thunb.) Ohwi & H. Ohashi—ricebean, red bean, climbing mountain-bean, mambi bean, Oriental-bean

Subgenus ''Haydonia''

*''Vigna monophylla'' Taub.
*''Vigna nigritia'' Hook. f.
*'' Vigna schimperi'' Baker
*''Vigna triphylla'' (R. Wilczek) Verdc.

Subgenus ''Lasiospron''

*''Vigna diffusa'' (Scott-Elliot) A. Delgado & Verdc.
*''Vigna juruana'' (Harms) Verdc.
*''Vigna lasiocarpa'' (Mart. ex Benth.) Verdc.
*''Vigna longifolia'' (Benth.) Verdc.
*''Vigna schottii'' (Bentham) A. Delgado & Verdc.
*''Vigna trichocarpa'' (C. Wright ex Sauvalle) A. Delgado
*''Vigna vexillata'' (L.) A. Rich.—zombi pea, wild cowpea
**''Vigna vexillata var. angustifolia''
**''Vigna vexillata'' var. ''youngiana''

Subgenus ''Vigna''

*''Vigna ambacensis'' Welw. ex Bak.
*''Vigna angivensis'' Baker
*''Vigna filicaulis'' Hepper
*''Vigna friesiorum'' Harms
*''Vigna gazensis'' Baker f.
*''Vigna hosei'' (Craib) Backer—Sarowak/sarawak bean
*''Vigna luteola'' (Jacq.) Benth.—Dalrymple vigna
*''Vigna membranacea'' A. Rich.
**''Vigna membranacea'' subsp. ''caesia'' (Chiov.) Verdc.
**''Vigna membranacea'' subsp. ''membranacea'' A. Rich.
*''Vigna monantha'' Thulin
*''Vigna racemosa'' (G. Don) Hutch. & Dalziel
*'' Vigna subterranea'' (L.) Verdc.—Bambara groundnut, Congo goober, hog-peanut, jugo bean, ''njugumawe'' (Swahili) (sometimes separated in ''Voandzeia'')
*'' Vigna unguiculata'' (L.) Walp.—cowpea, crowder pea, Southern pea, Reeve's-pea, snake-bean
**''Vigna unguiculata'' subsp. ''cylindrica''— catjang
**''Vigna unguiculata'' subsp. ''dekindtiana''—wild cowpea, African cowpea, Ethiopian cowpea
**''Vigna unguiculata'' subsp. ''sesquipedalis''— yardlong bean, long-podded cowpea, asparagus bean, Chinese long bean, pea-bean
**''Vigna unguiculata'' subsp. ''unguiculata''— black-eyed pea, black-eyed bean

Incertae sedis

*'' Vigna comosa''
*''Vigna dalzelliana''
*''Vigna debilis'' Fourc.
*''Vigna decipiens''
*''Vigna dinteri'' Harms
*''Vigna dolichoides'' Baker in Hooker f.

*'' Vigna frutescens''

*''Vigna gracilis''

*''Vigna kirkii''
*''Vigna lanceolata''—pencil yam, Maloga-bean, parsnip-bean, ''merne arlatyeye'' (Arrernte)

*''Vigna lobata'' (Willd.) Endl.
*''Vigna lobatifolia''
*''Vigna marina'' (Burm.f.) Merr.—dune-bean, notched cowpea, sea-bean, ''mohihihi'', ''nanea'' ( Hawaiian)

*''Vigna multiflora''
*''Vigna nervosa''
*''Vigna oblongifolia''
*''Vigna owahuensis'' Vogel—Oahu cowpea
*''Vigna parkeri''—creeping vigna

*''Vigna pilosa''

References

External links

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Fabaceae genera
Pantropical flora