Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp. subsp. unguiculata

Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part D), Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum, pp. 474-489 : 485

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scientific name	Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp. subsp. unguiculata
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Dolichos unguiculatus Linnaeus View in CoL , Species Plantarum 2: 725. 1753.

"Habitat in Barbados." RCN: 5332.

Neotype (Westphal, Pulses Ethiopia, Taxon. Agric. Signif.: 213. 1974): Westphal 8682 (WAG; iso- K, P).

Current name: Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp. subsp. unguiculata View in CoL View at ENA ( Fabaceae : Faboideae ).

Note: Piper (in Torreya 12: 190. 1912) interpreted this name via material in LINN (evidently sheet 900.5) identifiable as Phaseolus antillanus Urb. , for which he substituted P. unguiculatus (L.) Piper . However, as queried by Merrill (in Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc., n.s., 24: 215. 1935), this is unannotated by Linnaeus and is not original material for the name. The absence of type material was noted by authors such as Fawcett & Rendle (Fl. Jamaica 4: 69. 1920), and this uncertainty led some to reject it informally. See review by Westphal who provided a neotype for the name.