Vigna
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Fabaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Description - Herbaceous vines, or sometimes erect herbs, with pinnately 3-foliolate stipulate leaves, the leaflets broad. Flowers clustered at the ends of long axillary peduncles, yellowish or purplish, the rachis of the head or raceme knotty, the bracts and bractlets early deciduous. Calyx 5-toothed, or the 2 upper teeth united. Standard nearly orbicular, auricled at the base; wings shorter than the standard; keel about equalling the standard, slightly incurved. Stamens diadelphous (9 and 1). Ovary sessile; ovules numerous; style beat' led along the inner side; stigma oblique. Pod linear, nearly terete, 2-valved. [In honor of Domenico Vigna, a commentator on Theophrastus.] About 30 species, natives of warm and tropical regions. Type species: Dolichos htteohis Jacq.