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Vigna angularis var. nipponensis

Vigna angularis var. nipponensis ("Yabutsuruazuki")

Japanese name: ヤブツルアズキ (薮蔓小豆)
Scientific name: Vigna angularis var. nipponensis

Vigna angularis var. nipponensis

[Overview]
A climbing annual found in sunny places such as grasslands.
The whole plant is covered with yellowish-brown hairs.
The vines grow to more than 3 m long.
Leaves are alternate and trifoliate; the leaflets are ovate, often shallowly 3-lobed, with pointed tips.
The terminal leaflet is about 3–10 cm long and 2–8 cm wide.
Stipules are present.
Short pseudoracemes in the leaf axils bear 2–10 yellow flowers.
The flowers have a characteristic shape, with a twisted keel petal overlapped by the wing petals.
The bracteoles are narrowly ovate and longer than the calyx.
The fruit is a hairless pod, linear, 4–9 cm long and about 0.4 cm wide, holding 6–14 seeds in a single row.
The seeds are elliptical and greenish brown to purplish brown.

Details

Names
Japanese: ヤブツルアズキ(薮蔓小豆)
Life form
Herbaceous climber
Habit
Terrestrial
Flowering season
August, September, October
Distribution or origin
Japan (Honshu to Kyushu), Korea, China, Vietnam, Myanmar, Himalayas
Growth form
Climbing
Leaf shape
Trifoliate compound leaf
Leaf arrangement
Alternate
Leaf margin
Entire
Inflorescence
Pseudoraceme
Flower color
Yellow
Leaf color
Green

Translated from our Japanese encyclopedia. If anything differs, the Japanese page is correct.

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