Species Vigna vexillata
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Etymology of Vigna:
For Domenico Vigni, usually Latinised Domenicus Vigna (1577–1647), Italian botanist, professor of botany at Pisa for 38 years and ninth curator/director of the Orto Botanico di Pisa (Botanical Garden of Pisa), also known as the Orto Botanico dell’Universita di Pisa, the oldest in Europe, founded in 1543, a botanical garden where plants were studied for medical use, operated by the University of Pisa. Vigni was also a commentator on Theophrastus. No further details could be found.
Scientific name:
Vigna vexillata (L.) A. Rich.
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Protologue:
Hist. Fis. Cuba, Bot. 10: 191 (1845)
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Year published:
1845
Sprawling, usually twining, retrorsely-hairy or glabrescent subshrub. Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate, leaflets linear-oblong (occ. sublanceolate) to ovate. Flowers 2--4 on elongate peduncles, greenish white tinged magenta. Oct.--Mar. Grassland, SE (Knysna to pantropical).
Observations of Taxon
Vigna vexillata
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Sasa Malan (David)
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Collection:
Vigna vexillata
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Janet M. Gibson (David)
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Vigna vexillata
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Braam van Wyk and Sasa Malan (David)
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Vigna vexillata
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Elsa Pooley (David)
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Vigna vexillata
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Barbra Jeppe (David)
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