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The genus Vigna is in the family Leguminosae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Vigna

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See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Vigna aconitifolia (Jacq.) Marechal	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna acuminata Hayata	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna adenantha (G.Mey.) Marechal & al.	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna angivensis Baker	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna angularis (Willd.) Ohwi & H.Ohashi	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna antillana (Urb.) Fawc. & Rendle	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna antunesii Harms	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna appendiculata (Benth.) A. Delgado	Accepted		TRO
Vigna benuensis Pasquet & Marechal	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna bequaertii R.Wilczek	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna bosseri Du Puy & Labat	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna bournaea Gamble	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna candida (Vell.) Marechal & al.	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna canescens C.T.White	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna caracalla (L.) Verdc.	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna clarkei Prain	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna comosa Baker	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna cylindrica (L.) Skeels	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna dalzelliana (Kuntze) Verdc.	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna desmodioides R.Wilczek	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna dolomitica R.Wilczek	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna elegans (Piper) Marechal & al.	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna filicaulis Hepper	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna firmula (Hassl.) Marechal & al.	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna friesiorum Harms	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna frutescens A.Rich.	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna gazensis Baker f.	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna glabrescens Marechal & al.	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna gracilicaulis (Ohwi) Ohwi & H.Ohashi	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna gracilis (Guill. & Perr.) Hook.f.	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna grahamiana (Wight & Arn.) Verdc.	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna hainiana "Babu, Gopin. & S.K.Sharma"	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna halophila (Piper) Marechal & al.	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna haumaniana R.Wilczek	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna heterophylla A.Rich.	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna hirtella Ridl.	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna hookeri Verdc.	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna hosei (Craib) Backer	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna juncea Milne-Redh.	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna juruana (Harms) Verdc.	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna keraudrenii Du Puy & Labat	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna khandalensis (Santapau) Sundararagh. & Wadhw	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna kirkii (Baker) J.B.Gillett	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna kokii B.J.Pienaar	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna lanceolata Benth.	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna lasiocarpa (Benth.) Verdc.	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna latidenticulata (Harms) A.Delgado	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna laurentii De Wild.	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna linearis (Kunth) Marechal & al.	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna longifolia (Benth.) Verdc.	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna longissima Hutch.	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna lozanii (Rose) Lackey ex McVaugh	Accepted		TRO
Vigna luteola (Jacq.) Benth.	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna macrorhyncha (Harms) Milne-Redh.	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna malayana M.R.Hend.	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna marina (Burm.) Merr.	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna megatyla (Piper) A. Delgado	Accepted		TRO
Vigna membranacea A.Rich.	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna mendesii Torre	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna microsperma R.Vig.	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna mildbraedii Harms	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna minima (Roxb.) Ohwi & H.Ohashi	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna monantha Thulin	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna monophylla Taub.	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna mudenia B.J.Pienaar	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna mukerjeanus (Raizada) Raizada	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna multinervis Hutch. & Dalziel	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna mungo (L.) Hepper	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna nakashimae (Ohwi) Ohwi & H.Ohashi	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna nigritia Hook.f.	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna nyangensis R.Mithen & H.Kibblewhite	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna oblongifolia A.Rich.	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna parkeri Baker	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna peduncularis (Kunth) Fawc. & Rendle	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna phoenix Brummitt	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna platyloba Hiern	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna polytyla (Harms) A. Delgado	Accepted		TRO
Vigna praecox Verdc.	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna prainiana Babu & S.K.Sharma	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna procera Hiern	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna pygmaea R.E.Fr.	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna racemosa (G.Don) Hutch. & Dalziel	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna radiata (L.) R.Wilczek	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna radicans Baker	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna ramanniana Rossberg	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna reflexopilosa Hayata	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna reticulata Hook.f.	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna richardsiae Verdc.	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna riukiuensis (Ohwi) Ohwi & H.Ohashi	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna schimperi Baker	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna schlechteri Harms	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna somaliensis Baker f.	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna speciosa (Kunth) Verdc.	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna spectabilis (Standl.) A.Delgado	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna stenophylla Harms	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna stipulata Hayata	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna subramanianus (Raizada) Raizada	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna subterranea (L.) Verdc.	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna tisserantiana Pellegr.	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna trilobata (L.) Verdc.	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna triphylla (Wilczek) Verdc.	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna umbellata (Thunb.) Ohwi & H.Ohashi	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna venulosa Baker	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna venusta (Piper) Marechal & al.	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna vexillata (L.) A.Rich.	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna vignoides (Rusby) Marechal & al.	Accepted		ILDIS
Vigna virescens Thulin	Accepted		ILDIS

Statistics

The Plant List includes 323 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Vigna. Of these 108 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 101 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Vigna. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 323 species names for the genus Vigna recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	108	33.4%
◕	Synonym	158	48.9%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	57	17.6%

All names

The status of the 424 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Vigna recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	150	35.4%
◕	Synonym	208	49.1%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	66	15.6%

Of these names,

• 2 are recorded as a spelling variant

A further 9 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 323 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Vigna, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	100	142	0	0	242	74.9%
	Medium confidence	4	12	0	0	16	5.0%
	Low confidence	4	4	0	57	65	20.1%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Vigna, are as follows: