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Vigna

The genus Vigna is in the family Leguminosae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Vigna

See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name Status Confi­dence level Source
Vigna aconitifolia (Jacq.) Marechal Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna acuminata Hayata Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna adenantha (G.Mey.) Marechal & al. Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna angivensis Baker Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna angularis (Willd.) Ohwi & H.Ohashi Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna antillana (Urb.) Fawc. & Rendle Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna antunesii Harms Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna appendiculata (Benth.) A. Delgado Accepted M TRO
Vigna benuensis Pasquet & Marechal Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna bequaertii R.Wilczek Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna bosseri Du Puy & Labat Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna bournaea Gamble Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna candida (Vell.) Marechal & al. Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna canescens C.T.White Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna caracalla (L.) Verdc. Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna clarkei Prain Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna comosa Baker Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna cylindrica (L.) Skeels Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna dalzelliana (Kuntze) Verdc. Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna desmodioides R.Wilczek Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna dolomitica R.Wilczek Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna elegans (Piper) Marechal & al. Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna filicaulis Hepper Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna firmula (Hassl.) Marechal & al. Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna friesiorum Harms Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna frutescens A.Rich. Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna gazensis Baker f. Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna glabrescens Marechal & al. Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna gracilicaulis (Ohwi) Ohwi & H.Ohashi Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna gracilis (Guill. & Perr.) Hook.f. Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna grahamiana (Wight & Arn.) Verdc. Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna hainiana "Babu, Gopin. & S.K.Sharma" Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna halophila (Piper) Marechal & al. Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna haumaniana R.Wilczek Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna heterophylla A.Rich. Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna hirtella Ridl. Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna hookeri Verdc. Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna hosei (Craib) Backer Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna juncea Milne-Redh. Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna juruana (Harms) Verdc. Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna keraudrenii Du Puy & Labat Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna khandalensis (Santapau) Sundararagh. & Wadhw Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna kirkii (Baker) J.B.Gillett Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna kokii B.J.Pienaar Accepted L ILDIS
Vigna lanceolata Benth. Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna lasiocarpa (Benth.) Verdc. Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna latidenticulata (Harms) A.Delgado Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna laurentii De Wild. Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna linearis (Kunth) Marechal & al. Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna longifolia (Benth.) Verdc. Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna longissima Hutch. Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna lozanii (Rose) Lackey ex McVaugh Accepted M TRO
Vigna luteola (Jacq.) Benth. Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna macrorhyncha (Harms) Milne-Redh. Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna malayana M.R.Hend. Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna marina (Burm.) Merr. Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna megatyla (Piper) A. Delgado Accepted M TRO
Vigna membranacea A.Rich. Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna mendesii Torre Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna microsperma R.Vig. Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna mildbraedii Harms Accepted L ILDIS
Vigna minima (Roxb.) Ohwi & H.Ohashi Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna monantha Thulin Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna monophylla Taub. Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna mudenia B.J.Pienaar Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna mukerjeanus (Raizada) Raizada Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna multinervis Hutch. & Dalziel Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna mungo (L.) Hepper Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna nakashimae (Ohwi) Ohwi & H.Ohashi Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna nigritia Hook.f. Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna nyangensis R.Mithen & H.Kibblewhite Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna oblongifolia A.Rich. Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna parkeri Baker Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna peduncularis (Kunth) Fawc. & Rendle Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna phoenix Brummitt Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna platyloba Hiern Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna polytyla (Harms) A. Delgado Accepted M TRO
Vigna praecox Verdc. Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna prainiana Babu & S.K.Sharma Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna procera Hiern Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna pygmaea R.E.Fr. Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna racemosa (G.Don) Hutch. & Dalziel Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna radiata (L.) R.Wilczek Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna radicans Baker Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna ramanniana Rossberg Accepted L ILDIS
Vigna reflexopilosa Hayata Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna reticulata Hook.f. Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna richardsiae Verdc. Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna riukiuensis (Ohwi) Ohwi & H.Ohashi Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna schimperi Baker Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna schlechteri Harms Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna somaliensis Baker f. Accepted L ILDIS
Vigna speciosa (Kunth) Verdc. Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna spectabilis (Standl.) A.Delgado Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna stenophylla Harms Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna stipulata Hayata Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna subramanianus (Raizada) Raizada Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna subterranea (L.) Verdc. Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna tisserantiana Pellegr. Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna trilobata (L.) Verdc. Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna triphylla (Wilczek) Verdc. Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna umbellata (Thunb.) Ohwi & H.Ohashi Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp. Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna venulosa Baker Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna venusta (Piper) Marechal & al. Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna vexillata (L.) A.Rich. Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna vignoides (Rusby) Marechal & al. Accepted H ILDIS
Vigna virescens Thulin Accepted H ILDIS

Statistics

The Plant List includes 323 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Vigna. Of these 108 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 101 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Vigna. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 323 species names for the genus Vigna recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 108 33.4%
Synonym 158 48.9%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 57 17.6%

All names

The status of the 424 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Vigna recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 150 35.4%
Synonym 208 49.1%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 66 15.6%

Of these names,

A further 9 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 323 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Vigna, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 100 142 0 0 242 74.9%
Medium confidence 4 12 0 0 16 5.0%
Low confidence 4 4 0 57 65 20.1%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Vigna, are as follows:

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
ILDIS 104 145 0 0 9 258 79.9%
Tropicos 4 13 0 10 0 27 8.4%
WCSP (in review) 0 0 0 47 0 47 14.6%