Taxon:
Vigna parkeri Baker
Summary
Place of publication:
J. Bot. 20:69. 1882
Verified:
08/15/1996
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Reference(s)
- Exell, A. W. et al., eds. Flora zambesiaca. 1960- http://www.kew.org/efloras/namesearch.do
- 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=Vigna+parkeri&quantity=1
- Hedberg, I. & S. Edwards. Flora of Ethiopia. 1989- (and Eritrea. 2000)
- Jaaska, V. 1999. Isoenzyme diversity and phylogenetic affinities among the African beans of the genus Vigna (Fabaceae). Biochem. Syst. & Ecol. 27:569-589.
- Kretschmer, A. E., Jr. 1998. pers. comm. Note: re. common names
- Lock, J. M. Legumes of Africa: a checklist. 1989
- Maxted, N. et al. 2004. An ecogeographic study African Vigna. Syst. Ecogeogr. Stud. Crop Genepools 39, 129-132. Note: International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (IPGRI)
- Pasquet, R. S. & T. Vanderborgth. 1999. Isozyme polymorphism in some yellow- and blue-flowered Vigna species complexes (Fabaceae, Phaseoleae). Pl. Syst. Evol. 215:1-21. Note: this study included Vigna parkeri subsp. maranguensis
- Pasquet, R. S. et al. 1999. Isozyme diversity in Bambara groundnut. Crop Sci. (Madison) 39:1234. Note: this study did not include Vigna parkeri, but it examined other species with yellow to violet species of section Vigna that might be closely related to Bambara groundnut
- 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
- 't Mannetje, L. & R. M. Jones, eds. 1992. Forages. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 1989- 4:232-234. http://proseanet.org
- Troupin, G. Flore du Rwanda. 1978-
- Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. Flora of tropical East Africa. 1952-
- Vijaykumar, A. et al. 2010. Phylogenetic analysis of subgenus Vigna species using nuclear ribosomal RNA ITS: Evidence of hybridization among Vigna unguiculata subspecies. J. Heredity 101:177-188.
Common names
English
creeping vigna –
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
1 | Native | Africa | East Tropical Africa | Kenya | | |
1 | Native | Africa | East Tropical Africa | Tanzania | | |
1 | Native | Africa | East Tropical Africa | Uganda | | |
1 | Native | Africa | Northeast Tropical Africa | Ethiopia | | |
1 | Native | Africa | South Tropical Africa | Angola | | |
1 | Native | Africa | South Tropical Africa | Zambia | | |
1 | Native | Africa | West-Central Tropical Africa | Burundi | | |
1 | Native | Africa | West-Central Tropical Africa | Cameroon | | |
1 | Native | Africa | West-Central Tropical Africa | Rwanda | | |
1 | Native | Africa | West-Central Tropical Africa | Zaire | | |
1 | Native | Africa | Western Indian Ocean | Madagascar | | |
Native
Africa
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EAST TROPICAL AFRICA:
Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
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NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA:
Ethiopia
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SOUTH TROPICAL AFRICA:
Angola, Zambia
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WEST-CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA:
Burundi, Cameroon, Rwanda, Zaire
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WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN:
Madagascar
Economic Uses
Animal food
Environmental
soil improver (fide A. E. Kretschmer Jr., pers. comm.) –