Plant Details

No trade or plant part information for this plant in the MPNS resource.

Kew's taxonomic resources include 9 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

• Dolichos tenuis (E.Mey.) Steud. Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2, 1: 524 (1840).
• Scytalis tenuis E.Mey. Comm. Pl. Afr. Austr.: 145 (1836).
• Scytalis tenuis var. oblongata E.Mey. Comm. Pl. Afr. Austr.: 145 (1836).
• Scytalis tenuis var. ovata E.Mey. Comm. Pl. Afr. Austr.: 145 (1836), not validly publ.
• Vigna coerulea Baker in D.Oliver & auct. suc. (eds.), Fl. Trop. Afr. 2: 203 (1871).
• Vigna malosana Baker Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1897: 261 (1897).
• Vigna tenuis (E.Mey.) D.Dietr. Syn. Plant. 4: 1197 (1846).
• Vigna unguiculata var. ovata (E.Mey.) B.J.Pienaar S. African J. Bot. 58: 424 (1992), not validly publ.
• Vigna unguiculata var. tenuis (E.Mey.) Mithen Kirkia 14: 105 (1993).

This plant has not been found explicitly cited in the medicinal literature. MPNS has included this plant because its parent species (or an infraspecies belonging to it) is recorded as medicinal.

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