3905.000 Vigna Savi

Mackinder, B. et al. (2001) Papilionoideae Flora Zambesiaca 3(5)

Description of the genus

Climbing, prostrate or erect herbs or subshrubs. Stipules truncate, 2-lobed or spurred at the base, sometimes ± peltate; stipels ± persistent, rarely 0. Leaves pinnately (rarely digitately) 3-foliolate or 1-foliolate. Inflorescences axillary. Calyx 5-lobed, 2-lipped, the lower lip 3-lobed. Corolla (in ours) usually blue or purple, sometimes yellow. Style thin below, thickened and usually curved above and usually also hairy above on the inner face. Pods linear, usually terete and not flattened.

Worldwide: 80 species throughout the tropics

Zambia: 37 taxa.

Insects associated with this genus:

Actizera stellata (Red-clover Blue) Larval foodplant

Cupidopsis cissus (Common meadow blue) Food plant

Euchloron megaera (Verdant hawk) Larval foodplant

Euchrysops malathana (Common smoky blue) Food plant

Leptotes group (Blues) Food plant

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Species	FZ divisions	Content
antunesii Harms	N,W,C,S	Description, Image
comosa Baker subsp. abercornensis Verdc. [VU]	N
comosa Baker subsp. comosa	W	Image
frutescens A. Rich. subsp. frutescens var. frutescens	W,C,E,S	Description, Image
frutescens A.Rich. subsp. frutescens var. buchneri (Harms) Verdc.	N,W,C
haumaniana R.Wilczek	N,W,C
heterophylla A.Rich.	N
juncea Milne-Redh. var. major Milne-Redh.	N,W
juncea Milne-Redh. var. juncea	B,W
kirkii (Baker) Gillett	N
longissima Hutch.	N,W
luteola (Jacq.) Benth.	B,N,C,S	Description, Image
monophylla Taub.	N,C,E,S
multinervis Hutch. & Dalz.	B,N,W
oblongifolia A. Rich. var. oblongifolia	B,N,W,C,S	Description, Image
oblongifolia A. Rich. var. parviflora (Baker) Verdc.	B,N,C,S
parkeri Baker subsp. maranguensis (Taub.) Verdc.	N,W,S
phoenix Brummitt	W,(E),S	Description, Image
platyloba Welw. ex Hiern	N,E
procera Welw. ex Hiern	W
pygmaea R.E. Fr.	B,N,W,C,E,S	Description, Image
racemosa (G. Don) Hutch. & Dalz.	N,W
radiata (L.) R. Wilczek var. sublobata (Roxb.) Verdc.	C
radicans Welw. ex Baker	N,W,E
reticulata Hook. f.	N,W,C,E,S
richardsiae Verdc.	N
subterranea (L.) Verdc. var. subterranea
triphylla (R.Wilczek) Verdc.	N
unguiculata (L.) Walp.[Agg]	B,N,W,C,E,S	Description, Image
unguiculata (L.) Walp. subsp. dekindtiana (Harms) Verdc.	W
unguiculata (L.) Walp. subsp. pawekiae Pasquet	N
unguiculata (L.) Walp. subsp. stenophylla (Harv.) Maréchal, Mascherpa & Stainier	B
unguiculata (L.) Walp. subsp. tenuis (E. Mey.) Maréchal, Mascherpa & Stainie	N,W,C,S
unguiculata (L.) Walp. subsp. unguiculata var. spontanea (Schweinf.) Pasquet	B,N,E,S
vexillata (L.) A. Rich. var. angustifolia (Schumach.) Baker	N,E	Description, Image
vexillata (L.) A. Rich. var. vexillata	B,N,W,C,S	Description, Image
vexillata (L.) A.Rich. var. lobatifolia (Baker) Pasquet	B

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