Cajanus cajan

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Fabales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Cladus: Rosids Cladus: Eurosids I Ordo: Fabales

Familia: Fabaceae
Subfamilia: Faboideae
Tribus: Phaseoleae
Subtribus: Cajaninae
Genus: Cajanus
Sectio: C. sect. Cajanus
Species: Cajanus cajan

Name

Cajanus cajan (L.) Huth (1893)

Synonyms

Cajanum thora Raf.
Cajanus bicolor DC.
Cajanus flavus DC.
Cajanus indicus Spreng.
Cajanus indicus var. bicolor (DC.) Kuntze
Cajanus indicus var. flavus Kuntze
Cajanus indicus var. maculatus Kuntze
Cajanus luteus Bello
Cajanus obcordifolia D.N.Singh
Cajanus pseudocajan (Jacq.) Schinz & Guillaumin
Cajanus striatus Bojer
Cytisus cajan L.
Cytisus guineensis Schumach. & Thonn.
Cytisus mollis Salisb.
Cytisus pseudocajan Jacq.

Distribution

Native distribution areas:

Continental: Temperate Asia
- Regional: Indian subcontinent
  - Assam, India, West Himalaya
Introduced into:
- Afghanistan, Andaman Is., Angola, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Benin, Bermuda, Bismarck Archipelago, Bolivia, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Burkina, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Cayman Is., Central African Repu, Chad, China South-Central, China Southeast, Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Cook Is., Cuba, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, East Himalaya, Ecuador, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Florida, French Guiana, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Guyana, Hainan, Haiti, Honduras, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Jawa, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Laccadive Is., Laos, Leeward Is., Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Mali, Mauritius, Mexico Southwest, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, New Caledonia, New Guinea, New South Wales, Nicobar Is., Niger, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Pakistan, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Queensland, Rwanda, Réunion, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Society Is., Somalia, Southwest Caribbean, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Suriname, Swaziland, Tadzhikistan, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Transcaucasus, Trinidad-Tobago, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vietnam, Windward Is., Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe

References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2^nd Edition

References

Primary references

Huth, E. 1893. Helios. Abhandlungen und monatliche Mittheilungen aus dem Gesammtgebiete der Naturwissenschaften 11: 133, as Cajan cajan.

Additional references

van der Maesen, L.J.G. & Sosef, M.S.M. (2016). Flore du Gabon 49: 1-407. Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris.
Sykes, W.R. (2016). Flora of the Cook Islands: 1-973. National Tropical Botanical Garden, Hawaii.
Wunderlin, R.P. & Hansen, B.F. 2008. Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants. Institute for Systematic Botany, University of South Florida, Tampa [1].

Links

Govaerts, R. et al. 2021. Cajanus cajan in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2021 May 09. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2021. Cajanus cajan. Published online. Accessed: May 09 2021.
Tropicos.org 2021. Cajanus cajan. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 09 May 2021.
Hassler, M. 2021. Cajanus cajan. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2021. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2021 May 09. Reference page.
Hassler, M. 2021. World Plants. Synonymic Checklist and Distribution of the World Flora. . Cajanus cajan. Accessed: 09 May 2021.
USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Cajanus cajan in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Accessed: 2021 May 09.

Vernacular names

বাংলা: অড়হর
Deutsch: Straucherbse
English: Pigeon pea, pigeon tree
eesti: Harilik tuvihernes
suomi: Kyyhkynherne
Na Vosa Vakaviti: qiriqiri
français: Pois d'Angole, pois d'Ambrevade, pois pigeon
ગુજરાતી: તુવેર
हिन्दी: अरहर दाल
मराठी: तूर
नेपाली: रहर दाल
português: Guandu
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ: ᱵᱟᱨᱮᱫᱟᱨᱮ
தமிழ்: துவரம் பருப்பு
lea faka-Tonga: pīfisi
Yorùbá: òtílí
中文: 木豆

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