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Vigna unguiculata ssp. unguiculata
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Family:
FABACEAE/LEGUMINOSAE (Subfam.: Papilionoideae)
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Citation: Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp., Rep. 1: 779. 1892, ssp. unguiculata; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 93. 1982; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 159. 1984; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 177. 1990; Sanjappa, Legumes Ind. 277. 1992; Subram., Fl. Thenmala Div. 108. 1995; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 245. 2009.
Dolichos unguiculatus L., Sp. Pl. 725. 1753.
Dolichos biflorus L., Sp. Pl. 727. 1753; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 2: 210. 1876; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 367(259). 1918.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Kottapayar
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
Asparagus Bean, Barbati, Black Eye Pea, Blue Goose Southern Pea, Common Cowpea, Cowpea, Southern Pea, Wild Cow Pea
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Description:
Erect or scandent or straggling or trailing or twining herbs, stems, petioles and peduncles glabrous or often covered with scattered tubercles. leaflets 7-16 x 4-11 cm, ovate-rhomboid-oblong, lateral ones often oblique at base; stipules 1-2 cm long. Racemes capitate, 3-8 tubercled, on 2-30 cm long peduncles. Flowers greenish-yellow, on 0.1-0.3 cm long pedicels; bracteoles fugacious. Calyx longitudinally ribbed, transversely plicate-tuberculate, 0.5-0.6 cm long, lobes acuminate. Standard petal 2-3 cm across, greenish on the back at first, afterwards yellowish, on the inside mostly bluish-violet, sometimes sordidly yellow. Pods subterete, 6-8.5 x 0.5-1.1 cm; seeds 9-30 per pod, black, red, yellow or white.
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Habit:
Climber
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Flowering & Fruiting:
August-January
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District(s):
Alappuzha, Kollam, Palakkad, Kozhikkode
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Cultivated
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Distribution:
Cultivated in South Asia
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Aquatic:
No
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Epiphyte(s):
No
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Saprophyte:
No
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Stem parasite:
No
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Root parasite:
No
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Flower colour(s):
Yellow
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
No
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Garden:
No
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Edible:
No
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Vegetable:
Yes
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Endemic to:
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
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Localities:
R. Block, Kulathupuzha, Ariankavu
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