Fabaceae
Vigna

Vigna hosei (Craib) Backer

First published in Geill. Handb. Jav. Theeonkr.: 153 (1924)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Taiwan, W. Malesia. It is a climbing annual or perennial and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome.

Distribution

Native to:

Borneo, Jawa, Malaya, Taiwan

Introduced into:

Caroline Is., Florida, French Guiana, Hawaii, India, Kenya, Leeward Is., Mozambique, New Caledonia, Peru, Puerto Rico, Queensland, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Tanzania, Trinidad-Tobago, Vanuatu, Windward Is.

Synonyms

Homotypic Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.
  • Baksh-Comeau, Y., Maharaj, S.S., Adams, C.D., Harris, S.A., Filer, D.L. & Hawthorne, W.D. (2016). An annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Trinidad and Tobago with analysis of vegetation types and botanical 'hotspots'. Phytotaxa 250: 1-431.
  • Boggan, J. Funck, V. & Kelloff, C. (1997). Checklist of the Plants of the Guianas (Guyana, Surinam, Franch Guiana) ed. 2: 1-238. University of Guyana, Georgetown.
  • Brako, L. & Zarucchi, J.L. (1993). Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Gymnosperms of Peru. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 45: i-xl, 1-1286. Missouri Botanical Garden.
  • Evenhuis, N.L. & Eldredge, L.G. (eds.) (2012). Records of the Hawaii biological survey for 2011. Part II: plants. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 113: 1-102.
  • Fosberg, F.R., Sachet, M.-H., Oliver, R. (1979). A geographical checklist of the Micronesian Dicotyledonae. Micronesica; Journal of the College of Guam 15: 41-295.
  • Isely, D. (1998). Native and Naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the United States: 1-1007. Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum. Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.
  • Kumar, S. & Sane, P.V. (2003). Legumes of South Asia. A Checklist: 1-536. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Lepschi, B. & Monro, A. (Project Coordinators) (2014). Australian Plant Census (APC) Council of Heads of Australian Herbaria. http://www.anbg.gov.au/chah/apc/index.html.
  • Lock, J.M. & Ford, C.S. (2004). Legumes of Malesia a Check-List: 1-295. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Lock, J.M. (1989). Legumes of Africa a check-List: 1-619. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • MacKee, H.S. (1994). Catalogue des plantes introduites et cultivées en Nouvelle-Calédonie, ed. 2: 1-164. Museum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris.
  • Mackinder, B., Pasquet, R., Polhill, R. & Verdcourt, B. (2001). Flora Zambesiaca 3(5): 1-261. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Plunkett, G.M., Ranker, T.A., Sam, C. & Balick, M.J. (2022). Towards a checklist of the vascular flora of Vanuatu. Candollea 77: 105-118.
  • Wu, Z. & Raven, P.H. (eds.) (2010). Flora of China 10: 1-642. Science Press (Beijing) & Missouri Botanical Garden Press (St. Louis).

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.
  • Baksh-Comeau, Y., Maharaj, S.S., Adams, C.D., Harris, S.A., Filer, D.L. & Hawthorne, W.D. (2016). An annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Trinidad and Tobago with analysis of vegetation types and botanical 'hotspots'. Phytotaxa 250: 1-431.
  • Boggan, J. Funck, V. & Kelloff, C. (1997). Checklist of the Plants of the Guianas (Guyana, Surinam, Franch Guiana) ed. 2: 1-238. University of Guyana, Georgetown.
  • Brako, L. & Zarucchi, J.L. (1993). Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Gymnosperms of Peru. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 45: i-xl, 1-1286. Missouri Botanical Garden.
  • Evenhuis, N.L. & Eldredge, L.G. (eds.) (2012). Records of the Hawaii biological survey for 2011. Part II: plants. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 113: 1-102.
  • Fosberg, F.R., Sachet, M.-H., Oliver, R. (1979). A geographical checklist of the Micronesian Dicotyledonae. Micronesica; Journal of the College of Guam 15: 41-295.
  • Isely, D. (1998). Native and Naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the United States: 1-1007. Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum. Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.
  • Kumar, S. & Sane, P.V. (2003). Legumes of South Asia. A Checklist: 1-536. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Lepschi, B. & Monro, A. (Project Coordinators) (2014). Australian Plant Census (APC) Council of Heads of Australian Herbaria. http://www.anbg.gov.au/chah/apc/index.html.
  • Lock, J.M. & Ford, C.S. (2004). Legumes of Malesia a Check-List: 1-295. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Lock, J.M. (1989). Legumes of Africa a check-List: 1-619. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • MacKee, H.S. (1994). Catalogue des plantes introduites et cultivées en Nouvelle-Calédonie, ed. 2: 1-164. Museum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris.
  • Mackinder, B., Pasquet, R., Polhill, R. & Verdcourt, B. (2001). Flora Zambesiaca 3(5): 1-261. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Plunkett, G.M., Ranker, T.A., Sam, C. & Balick, M.J. (2022). Towards a checklist of the vascular flora of Vanuatu. Candollea 77: 105-118.
  • Wu, Z. & Raven, P.H. (eds.) (2010). Flora of China 10: 1-642. Science Press (Beijing) & Missouri Botanical Garden Press (St. Louis).

International Legume Database and Information Service

  • Ambasta, S. P. (1986). The useful plants of India
  • Maxwell, R. H. (1991). In: Dassanayake, M. D. & Fosberg, F. R. (Eds.) A revised handbook
  • Verdcourt, B. (1979). A Manual of New Guinea Legumes. Office of Forests, Lae, PNG
  • Wiersema, J. H. et al. (1990). Legume Nomenclature USDA Germplasm Sys. USDA Tech. Bull. 1757

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Jan 1, 1968 Hose, E. [2335] Malaysia K000900686 Unknown Type Material Yes
Sep 21, 1954 Whyte, A. [s.n.] Malawi K000286484 Type Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Uganda K001360204 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Indonesia K001362924 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Tanzania K001362929 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] India K001355693 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Malaysia K001362916 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Malaysia K001362912 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Tanzania K001362930 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Tanzania K001360237 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] United States K001357122 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Uganda K001360216 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] K001360228 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] K001355692 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Kenya K001360223 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Belgium K001362910 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Malaysia K001362913 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Mozambique K001363117 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Trinidad and Tobago K001362931 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Malaysia K001362917 Yes
Hose, E. [2335] Malaysia K000900685 Unknown Type Material Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Belgium K001362911 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Uganda K001360208 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Uganda K001360212 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Malaysia K001362921 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Uganda K001360217 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] K001355689 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Tanzania K001360224 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Puerto Rico K001363452 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Suriname K001363501 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Tanzania K001360236 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Uganda K001360205 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] K001360229 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Uganda K001360211 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Malaysia K001362914 Yes
Troupin, G. [5016] Rwanda K000263426 Isotype Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Uganda K001360209 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Uganda K001360215 Yes
Marechal, R.J.J.M.; Marchand, G.le [321] Rwanda K001097299 Isotype Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Tanzania K001360230 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Tanzania K001360234 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Malaysia K001362915 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Tanzania K001360235 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Uganda K001360213 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Tanzania K001360233 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Sri Lanka K001362925 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Sri Lanka K001362928 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Uganda K001360218 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Kenya K001360220 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] K001360227 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Tanzania K001360226 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Tanzania K001360225 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Trinidad and Tobago K001362932 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Uganda K001360206 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Mozambique K001363118 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Tanzania K001360232 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Rwanda K001359097 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] K001357106 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Sri Lanka K001362926 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Malaysia K001356570 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Suriname K001362933 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Malaysia K001362922 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Sri Lanka K001362927 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] K001355691 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Malaysia K001362919 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Uganda K001360210 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Malaysia K001362918 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Uganda K001360214 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Malaysia K001362920 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Tanzania K001360231 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Malaysia K001362923 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Kenya K001360219 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Uganda K001360207 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] K001355690 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Kenya K001360221 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Kenya K001360222 Yes

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Flora Zambesiaca

    • Flora Zambesiaca
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • IUCN Categories

    • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • International Legume Database and Information Service

    • International Legume Database and Information Service (ILDIS) V10.39 Nov 2011
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Science Photographs

    • Copyright applied to individual images