Vigna hosei (Craib) Backer

Sarawak bean (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Vigna

Characteristics

Perennial herbs, twining or creeping, often forming a thick ground cover. Stipules 2-lobed at base; petiole 2-5 cm; leaflets ovate-elliptic or obliquely ovate, 3-7.5 × 2-5 cm, thinly hairy on both surfaces, base rounded, apex obtuse to acute. Racemes axillary; peduncles 1.5-7 cm; pedicels 1.7-2.2 mm, appressed pubescent. Calyx tube 1.7-2.2 mm; upper teeth connate into a triangular lip of ca. 1.2 mm. Corolla yellow; standard 6-12 mm in diam.; keel not or slightly longer than wings, not beaked. Ovary densely adpressed villous. Legumes black, oblong, 1-2 cm × 4-4.5 mm, hairy, 1-4-seeded.
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Leaflets 3, 1.5–9 × 1.5–2.5 cm, obtuse and mucronulate at the apex, rounded-obtuse at the base, pubescent; petiole 1.5–8 cm long; rhachis 0.2–1.5 cm long; stipules 2.5–3 × 0.8 mm, bilobed at the base with lobes unequal, 3-nerved.
Calyx slightly pubescent; tube c. 1 mm long; lobes deltate, 0.8–1 mm long, lower as long as the laterals, upper united in a rounded and emarginate lip.
Flower yellow, 7–8 × 7–10 mm; pedicel 1–3 mm long, expanding as the pod matures; bracteoles c. 1 mm long, 1-nerved.
Pod 2–3 cm × c. 4 mm, linear-cylindrical, slightly curved, glabrous to pubescent, with a short curved beak.
Peduncle 2–8 cm × 0.2–0.8 mm, slightly pubescent; rhachis 0–2 cm long, 1–12-noded, internodes 2–3 mm long.
Standard with two U-shaped appendages; keel slightly twisted towards the left, without a beak.
Seed c. 5 × 3 mm; hilum 2 mm long, almost central; rim aril reduced, not excentric.
Annual or perennial, creeping, up to a few metres long.
Stem glabrous to villous, hairs up to 0.8 mm long.
Ovary 3–4-ovuled.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support climber
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination autogamy
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 1.0
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Rooting depth (meter) 1.5
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Flower color
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Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
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Environment

Not known as a wild plant. Naturalized in southern china, where it grows in grass at roadsides, wastelands; at elevations below 500 metres.
Light 4-9
Soil humidity 4-9
Soil texture 1-6
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 10-12

Usage

Uses animal food cover plant environmental use fodder forage gene source green manure manure tea
Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings. Seeds needs soaking.
Mode cuttings seedlings
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment soaking
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Optimum temperature (C°) 17 - 29
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Productivity -

Images

Vigna hosei unspecified picture

Distribution

Vigna hosei world distribution map, present in Angola, Australia, Burundi, Brazil, China, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Guadeloupe, Indonesia, India, Japan, Kenya, Saint Lucia, Sri Lanka, Mozambique, Martinique, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Rwanda, Suriname, Taiwan, Province of China, Tanzania, United Republic of, Uganda, United States of America, and Zambia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:60472180-2
WFO ID wfo-0000188345
COL ID 5BDPM
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID 448107
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Dolichos hosei Vigna hosei Vigna oligosperma Vigna parkeri subsp. acutifoliola Vigna parkeri subsp. maranguensis Vigna hosei var. hosei