• Family : FABACEAE
  (Pea Or Bean Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : PALASH FAMILY (पलाश फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : LEGUMINOSAE
• Subfamily : Faboideae
• Basionym : Phaseolus sublobata Roxb.
• Synonym(s) : Vigna radiata var. sublobata (Roxb.) Verdc.; Phaseolus trinervius Wight & Arn.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Vigna radiata var. setulosa (Dalzell) Ohwi & Ohashi
• Common name : Wild black gram
• Vernacular name : Banurd, Kaadu uddu (Kannada); Karumpayir (Tamil); Banbiri, Burburi (Oria); Mashpani (Sanskrit); Kattuzhunnu (Malayalam)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Dry deciduous forests, also cultivated
• Comments / notes : Frequent
• Key identification features : Slender hairy climber
• Flower, Fruit : May-April
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy
• Collection Date : 13/12/2014
• Collection Nos : HJCB-E-193
• Collection Locality : Batrepalli, Nigidi forest, Anantapur district (AP)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Kadapa district
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Alappuzha district, Kollam district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Madurai district, The Nilgiri district, Tiruchirapalli district
• World Distribution : Pantropical
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2001 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 2; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1.
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Vigna sublobata. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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