- Family : FABACEAE
(Pea Or Bean Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : PALASH FAMILY (पलाश फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Leguminosae
- Subfamily : Faboideae
- Basionym : Dolichos unguiculatus L.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Vigna unguiculata subsp. unguiculata
- Common name : Cow pea, Asparagus Bean, Barbati, Black Eye Pea, Blue Goose Southern Pea, Common Cowpea, Southern Pea
- Vernacular name :
- Halsandi (Kannada)
- Alasandalu (Telugu)
- Jhurango (Oria)
- Kollu (Tamil)
- Kottapayar (Malayalam)
- Galjaramba, Lobia, Ravas (Hindi)
- Habit : Climber
- Comments / notes : Cultivated as a crop up to 3000m.
- Key identification features : Suberect or twiner, herbaceous
- Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
- Distribution :
- Karnataka : Bengaluru district
- Kerala : Kerala
- Maharashtra : Thane district
- Odisha : Odisha
- Tamil Nadu : Tamil Nadu
- Madhya Pradesh : Hoshangabad district
- West Bengal : West Bengal
- Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
- Punjab : Punjab
- Native : Angola, Benin, Botswana, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Caprivi Strip, Central African Repu, Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Islands, Ivory Coast, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Na
- Exotic/Native : Exotic
- World Distribution : Cultivated in the Tropics
- Literature :
- H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI
- Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1.
- Pullaiah et al., 2001 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 2
- H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa
- Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Vigna unguiculata subsp. unguiculata. Downloaded on 7 September 2024.
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Botanical Description
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Herbarium Specimen(s)
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Field Image(s)
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India Distribution
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World Distribution
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![](world_map.php?country_list=Angola, Benin, Botswana, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Caprivi Strip, Central African Repu, Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Islands, Ivory Coast, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Na,Cultivated in the Tropics) |
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