Lablab
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Subfamily: | Faboideae |
| Genus: | Lablab Adans. (1763) |
| Species: | L. purpureus
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| Lablab purpureus | |
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Lablab purpureus is a species of bean in the family Fabaceae. It is native to sub-Saharan Africa and India and it is cultivated throughout the tropics for food.[1][3] English language common names include hyacinth bean,[4] lablab-bean[5] bonavist bean/pea, dolichos bean, seim or sem bean, lablab bean, Egyptian kidney bean, Indian bean, bataw and Australian pea.[6] Lablab is a monotypic genus.[3][7]
Taxonomy
The name lablab which is also capitalized as its genus name is given by Robert Sweet from the previous name of Dolichos lablab by Carl Linnaeus, its epithet comes from Template:Lang-ar.[8]
Subspecific classification
According to the British biologist and taxonomist Bernard Verdcourt,[9]
- there are two cultivated subspecies of Lablab purpureus (L.) Sweet:
- Lablab purpureus subsp. bengalensis (Jacq.) Verdc. (Syn.: Dolichos bengalensis Jacq., Dolichos lablab subsp. bengalensis (Jacq.) Rivals, Lablab niger subsp. bengalensis (Jacq.) Cuf.)
- Lablab purpureus subsp. purpureus
- in addition to one wild subspecies:
- Lablab purpureus subsp. uncinatus
- of which a special variant with lobed leaflets exists only in Namibia:
- Lablab purpureus var. rhomboïdeus (Schinz).
- ^ a b c "Lablab purpureus (L.) Sweet". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 3 September 2023.
- ^ "Lablab purpureus". Multilingual taxonomic information. University of Melbourne.
- ^ a b Lablab purpureus. Tropical Forages.
- ^ USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Lablab purpureus". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 22 January 2016.
- ^ BSBI List 2007 (xls). Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland. Archived from the original (xls) on 2015-06-26. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
- ^ Lablab purpureus L. (Sweet). University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, India.
- ^ Lablab purpureus, general information. Archived 2020-07-15 at the Wayback Machine University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, India.
- ^ Allen, O. N.; Allen, Ethel Kullmann (1981). The Leguminosae: A Source Book of Characteristics, Uses, and Nodulation. Madison, Wisconsin, USA: University of Wisconsin Press. p. 370. ISBN 9780299084004.
- ^ Verdcourt, Bernard (1970). "LablabAdans. In: Studies in the Leguminosae-Papilionoideae for the 'Flora of Tropical East Africa': III". Kew Bulletin. 24 (3): 409–11. JSTOR 4102845.