Surajit ji For arriving at exact name please mention the fruit length of your plant:
If twiner longer than 2 m, pod longer than 30 cm it is V. unguiculata subsp. sesquipedalis (L.) Verdcourt If erect or trailing shorter than 1 m, pod pendulous, 15-30 cm long....it is V. unguiculata subsp. unguiculata (V. sinensis (L.) Hassk.) If erect or trailing shorter than 1 m, pod erect or spreading, shorter than 15 cm, it should be V. unguiculata subsp. cylindrica (L.) Verdc. (V. catiang (Burm.f.) Walp. -- Dr. Gurcharan Singh Retired Associate Professor SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 http://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 5:57 PM, surajit koley < [email protected]> wrote: > Good morning > > One interesting practice The Plant List maintains is grading of > "Confidence level" <http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/ild-3613>, > what GRIN doesn't<http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?41645>! > > Before we label this plant as *Vigna unguiculata* subsp. *unguiculata*(L.) > Walp. please read the following - > > Page 389, partly, Bengal Plants, David Prain :- > > VIGNA Catjang Endl. ; F. B. I ii. 205 ; E. D. V, 116. Dolichos Catjang F. > I. iii. 303. > In all the provinces, cultivated. > A suberect herb. *Hind*. Lobia, ransa; *Beng*. Barbati; *Santal*. Ghangra. > > > Page 205-206, partly, F. B. I. ii. :- > > 4. V. Catiang, Endl.; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. i. 188; annual, suberect or > twining,' stipules large attached above the base, leaflets membranous > ovate-rhomboidal entire or slightly lobed, racemes few-flowered > long-peduncled, pod very long many-seeded. Dolichos Catiang, Linn.; DC. > Prodr. ii. 399; Roxb. Fl. Ind. 303; Wall Cat. 5549. D. sinensis, Linn.,; ; > DC. loc. cit.; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 302; Wall. Cat. 6550; Bot. Mag. t. 2232; > W. & A. Prodr. 250. Vigna sinensis, Endl.; Hassk. PI. Jav. Rar. 386. > Dolichos tranquebaricusm Jacq. Hort. Vind. iii. t. 70. D. monachalis, > Brot.; DC. Prodr. loc. cit, > Native and universally cultivated in the tropical zone. - DISTRIB. Tropics > of old world. > Low and sub-erect (V.Catiang) or tall and voluble ( V. sinensis), always > glahrous or nearly so. Stipules 1/3-1/2 in. long, attached and persistent > as in Phaseolus § Strophostylis; leaflets membranous, 3-6 in. long, acute, > very variable in shape, broad or narrow ovate, or ovate-rhomboidal, with > the two sides below the middle prolonged into obtuse lobes. Peduncles often > exceeding the leaves, 3-6-flowered ; pedicels very short. Calyx glabrous, > under 1 in ; teeth lanceolate or deltoid- cuspidate. Corolla yellow > or reddish, twice the calyx. Pod in some of the cultivated forms 1 or even > 2 feet long, under 1/2 in. broad, edible ; seeds 10 to 20. > > SUBGEN. 2. Plectrotropis. Keel prolonged into a distinct beak, so > that this group connects *Vigna proper* with *Phaseolus*. > > > These pictures are of BARBOTI in Bengali, a vegetable extensively used > these days in mid-day meal scheme in schools as per GoI order. > > A cultivated plant recorded on 15/11/12, in Hooghly > > Thank you & Regards, > > surajit > > -- > > > > --
