Family: Fabaceae
Vigna
Citation:
Savi, Nuovo Giorn. Lett. 8:113 (1824).
Derivation: After Domenico Vigna, Professor of Botany at Pisa where he died in 1647.
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: None
Description:
Erect, climbing or trailing shrubs, subshrubs or herbs, mostly from a woody or tuberous rootstock; leaves usually pinnately 3-foliolate; stipules truncate, bilobed or spurred; stipels mainly persistent.
Inflorescence mostly axillary, falsely racemose or flowers in dense 1-many-flowered subumbellate clusters or fasciculate; rhachis usually thickened and glandular at the point of insertion of the pedicels; bract and bracteoles more or less deciduous; calyx 5-lobed, 2-lipped, lower lip 3-lobed, upper 2-lobed; petals yellow (in S.Aust.), blue or purple; standard with inflexed auricles; keel incurved; upper stamen free, lower 9 united in an open sheath around the ovary; anthers uniform; ovary 3-many-ovuled; style upper part thickened and cartilaginous, barbed or hirsute on the inner face, sometimes produced beyond the stigma; stigma oblique or lateral.
Pod linear or linear-oblong, cylindrical or flattened, usually more or less septate; seed mostly reniform or quadrate; aril well developed or obsolete.
Distribution:
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Pantropic with about 150 species; 5 species in Australia, mainly northern and eastern.
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Biology:
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Author:
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