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(Last Modified On 10/1/2013)
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(Last Modified On 10/1/2013)
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Species
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Vigna longifolia (Benth.) Verdc.
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Kew Bull. 24: 541. 1970.
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Synonym
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Phaseolus longifolius Benth., Comm. Legum. Gen. 75. 1837. TYPE: Brazil, Schott, not seen. Phaseolus ovatus Benth., Comm. Legum. Gen. 75. 1837. SYNTYPES: Brazil, Martius, Schott, neither seen. Phaseolus schottii Benth., Comm. Legum. Gen. 75. 1837. TYPE: Brazil, Schott, not seen. Phaseolus trichocarpus C. Wright, Anales Acad. Ci. Med. Habana 5: 337. 1868. TYPE: Cuba, Wright 2341 (MO, isotype).
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Description
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Slender twining vine; stems pilose with long weak yellowish hairs, drying grooved. Leaves pinnate trifoliolate; leaflets narrowly ovate to oblong lanceolate, mostly 5-8 cm long, 1-3 cm wide, apically acute or slightly and gradually acu- minate, mucronate, basally rounded, glabrate but mostly ciliolate on the margins and costa; petiolules ca. 2 mm long, densely pilose; petioles shorter than the leaves, drying angled, pilose as the stems; stipels ovate, glabrous, ca. 2 mm long; stipules acute, ca. 6 mm long, produced ca. 3 mm below the point of insertion, ciliate. Inflorescences contracted pseudoracemes on elongate, erect axillary pe- duncles, peduncles 3-20 cm long, sparingly long pilose, drying angled; bracteoles and bracts subulate, caducous; pedicels shorter than the calyx in flower, some- what longer in fruit. Flowers yellow; calyx campanulate, sparingly pilose with white hairs, 3-4 mm long, the lobes rounded; standard deeply emarginate, the keel apically recurved and bent to one side. Pod oblong, compressed, 3-4 cm long, 7-8 mm wide, maturing black with shaggy tawny hairs, non septate; seeds compressed globose, 3-4 mm long, shiny black with a white hilum.
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Specimen
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CANAL ZONE: BARRO COLORADO ISLAND: Aviles 56 (MO); Bailey & Bailey 299 (F); Bangham 506 (A, F); Croat 5717, 8250 (both MO), 13238 (MO, NY); Foster 1219 (DUKE); Shattuck 245 (GH, MO), 909 (MO); Starry 257 (MO): Wetmore & Abbe 190 (GH, MO); Woodworth & Vestal 473 (GH), 535 (F, GH), 564 (F, GH). Juan Mina, Bartlett & Lasser 16497 (MO). Gatin Lake, Duke 8308 (NY). Frijoles, Ebinger 975 (MO). Gamboa, Tyson et al. 4583 (MO, SCZ). CHIRIQUT: David airport, 25 ft, Lewis et al. 771 (MO). DARIEN: Rio Pirre, Duke & Bristan 8308 (MO). PANAMA: Road to Areriosa from Espina, Folsom 3452 (MO). Arenoso, lower Rio Trinidad, Seibert 632 (F, MO, NY).
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