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Vigna mungo

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(Linnaeus) Hepper

Conservation Status

Endangered

Common Names

• Black Gram
• Mungo
• Mas (Nepali)
• May (Newari)
• Urd
• Urid
• Mat-pe (Myanmar)
• Amberique
• Urd Bean

Geographical Habitats

• India
• Pakistan
• not known in wild

Natural Habitats

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

Annual hairy climbing twining, erect or trailing herb with 3-foliolate leaves, leaflets sometime minutely 3-lobed, central leaflet to 100mm long, subscabrous on both surfaces, 4-6 flowered racemes or fascicles with 6mm bracteoles of pale yellow flowers, calyx 3mm,yellowish corolla 10mm, torulose fruit a dark brown hairy pod, rarely glabrous 50mm x 5mm, yellow-hairy stems

Medicinal uses

Further References

• Smith 1998
• Manandhar 2002
• Mobot
• APDC
• The Plant List 2
• USNH
• Botanicus
• FV
• FOTA