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Taxon:
Cyamopsis tetragonoloba
(L.) Taub.
Nomenclature
Common Names
Distribution
Economic Uses
Summary
Genus:
Cyamopsis
Family:
Fabaceae
(alt. Leguminosae)
Subfamily:
Faboideae
Tribe:
Indigofereae
Nomen number:
12701
Place of publication:
H. G. A. Engler & K. A. E. Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 3(3):259. 1894
Verified:
02/19/2009
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0
(
0
active,
0
available)
in National Plant Germplasm System.
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Basionym
Psoralea tetragonoloba
L.
Homotypic Synonym(s)
Cyamopsis psoraloides
(Lam.) DC.
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Dolichos psoraloides
Lam.
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Reference(s)
Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson.
Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin). 2009
Note:
based on Alden, B. & S. Ryman. 2005-: SKUD (Swedish Utility and Cultivated Plants Database)
http://www.skud.info
Aubréville, A. et al., eds.
Flore du Cambodge du Laos et du Viet-Nam. 1960-
Note:
cult.
Duke, J. A. et al.
CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. 2002
Duke, J. A.
Handbook of legumes of world economic importance. 1981
Encke, F. et al.
Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. 1984
Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds.
1997. Auxiliary plants. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 1989- 11:109-113.
http://proseanet.org
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
Note:
http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/cropListDetails?code=&relation=beginsWith&name=Cyamopsis+tetragonoloba&quantity=1
Gillett, J. B.
1958.
Indigofera
(
Microcharis
) in tropical Africa. Kew Bull. add. ser., 1:7.
Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS).
Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
http://www.anbg.gov.au/common.names/
Leung, A. Y. & S. Foster.
Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in food, drugs, and cosmetics, ed. 2. 1996
Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium.
Hortus third. 1976
Note:
"tetragonolobus"
Markle, G. M. et al., eds.
Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. 1998
Matthew, K. M.
The flora of the Tamilnadu Carnatic. 1983
McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker.
Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. 2000
Note:
American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, MD
Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds.
Flora of [West] Pakistan. 1970-
National Academy of Sciences.
Tropical legumes: resources for the future. 1979
Porcher, M. H. et al.
Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Frontpage.html
Rehm, S.
Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994
Smith, A. C.
Flora vitiensis nova. 1979-1991
Thulin, M.
Leguminosae of Ethiopia. Opera Bot. 68:1-223. 1983
Uphof, J. C. T.
Dictionary of economic plants, ed. 2. 1968
Note:
"
Cyanopsis
"
Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds.
Flora of China (English edition). 1994-
http://www.efloras.org/browse.aspx?flora_id=2
Common names
English
Calcutta-lucerne –
Reference(s)
cluster-bean –
Reference(s)
guar –
Reference(s)
guar-bean –
Reference(s)
Siam-bean –
Reference(s)
French
cyamopse à quatre ailes –
Reference(s)
Swedish
guarböna –
Reference(s)
Transcribed Chinese
gua er dou –
Reference(s)
Distribution
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Status
Continent
Subcontinent
Country
State
Note
2
Cultivated
widely cult.
6
Other
possible origin India
Cultivated
(widely cult.)
Other
(possible origin India)
Economic Uses
Animal food
Environmental
shade/shelter (fide Leg WorldEc) –
Reference(s)
Food additives
emulsifier (but hazardous fide Ency CNatIn) –
Reference(s)
Materials
gum/resin (source of guar gum used in the mining industry as a flocculant and filter acid fide Dict Econ Pl) –
Reference(s)
Medicines
folklore (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2) –
Reference(s)
Name
References
Economic Uses