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Vigna umbellata

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(Thunberg) Ohwi & H. Ohashi

Common Names

• Rice Bean
• Red Bean
• Chi xiao dou (Pinyin)
• Beli (Myanmar)
• Be-nauk (Myanmar)
• Be-pwe (Myanmar)
• Be- sang (Myanmar)
• Be-te (Myanmar)
• Be-tyel (Myanmar)
• Ning Krung-shapre (Myanmar)
• Pe-nauk-saung (Myanmar)
• Pe-yin (Myanmar)
• Thua nho nhè (Laos)
• Tsuru-azuki (Japan)
• Kani-me (Japan)
• Anatasamby
• Arak-Mungi
• Ghurush
• Mahalay
• Sutri
• Tsesisa
• Tsiasisa

Geographical Habitats

• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Hainan
• Taiwan
• Yunnan - China
• India
• Korea
• Laos
• Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Philippines
• Sri Lanka
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Montane areas
• forest margins
• wasteland.

Flowering Times

• May-Aug (China)

Fruiting Times

Annual twining or creeping yellow-hairy herb with axillary racemes or umbels of 15mm white, yellow & violet flowers ,glabrous calyx to 9mm, glabrous petals to 25mm long x 20mm, 100mm long x 6mm glabrous or villous curved pods, stems villous, villous or glabrous trifoliolate leaves

Further References

• Sturtevant 1919
• Bailey 1976
• Rubatzky 1997
• FOC
• Bodkin
• JDH
• APDC
• The Plant List 2
• USNH
• Botanicus
• F Indochine
• FOJ
• GBS
• ILDIS