- 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 umbellatus Thunb.
- Synonym(s) : Phaseolus calcaratus Roxb.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Vigna umbellata (Thunb.) Ohwi & H.Ohashi
- Common name : Rice Bean
- Vernacular name :
- Bano-mungo (Oria)
- Sutri, Bir Mungo (Sanskrit)
- Sutri (Hindi)
- Kattuzhunnu (Malayalam)
- Habit : Climber
- Habitat : Tropical semi-evergreen forests, Tropical moist deciduous forests
- Flower, Fruit : August-December
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district
- Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Pathanamthitta district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Odisha : Cuttack district, Rayagada district, Kalhandi district, KHG
- Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Madurai district, The Nilgiri district
- Madhya Pradesh : Hoshangabad district
- Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- West Bengal : Darjeeling district, Jalpaiguri district, Midnapur
- Himachal Pradesh : Himachal Pradesh
- Arunachal Pradesh : Arunachal Pradesh
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
- Punjab : Punjab
- Jammu and Kashmir : Jammu and Kashmir
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Lakshadweep : Lakshadweep
- Native : Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, Hainan, India, Japan, Jawa, Lakshadweep Islands, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaya, Myanmar, New Guinea, Pakistan, Philippines, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, Hainan, India, Japan, Jawa, Lakshadweep Islands, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaya, Myanmar, New Guinea, Pakistan, Philippines, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- Pullaiah et al., 2001 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 2
- H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1
- H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI
- Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1.
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Vigna umbellata. Downloaded on 4 October 2024.
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