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Taxon:  Cajanus cajan (L.) Huth



Summary
Genus:
Cajanus
Family:
Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae)
Subfamily:
Faboideae
Tribe:
Phaseoleae
Subtribe:
Cajaninae
Nomen number:
8319
Place of publication:
Helios 11:133. 1893 "Cajan cajan" (C. F. Millspaugh, Publ. Field Columb. Mus., Bot. Ser. 2(1):53. 1900)
Comment:
although the genus Cajanus DC. was formerly (Berlin ICBN App. IIIA) treated as conserved over the rejected Cajan Adans., since the Vienna ICBN the two are treated as orthographic variants, with Cajanus Adans. 'Cajan the conserved spelling', such that Huth's binomial is no longer a tautonym (Shenzhen ICN 23.4), his generic spelling being correctable under Shenzhen ICN 61.4
Verified:
02/26/1988 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
137 (137  active, 126  available) in National Plant Germplasm System.  (Map it)
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Basionym
Cytisus cajan L.

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Cajanus flavus DC.
Cajanus indicus Spreng.

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Cajanus bicolor DC.
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Reference(s)
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Common names
English
Congo-pea –
pigeon-pea –
red gram –
yellow dhal –
French
ambrévade –
pois d'Angole –
German
Straucherbse –
India
arhar –
tuver –
Italian
pisello del Tropico –
Japanese Rōmaji
ki-mame –
Portuguese
feijão-guandu –
guandú –
guisante-de-Angola –
Spanish
cachito –
gandul –
Swedish
duvärt –
Transcribed Chinese
mu dou –
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
2Cultivated    widely cult. in tropics
6Other    origin India
Cultivated (widely cult. in tropics)
Other (origin India)
Economic Uses
UsageTypeNoteReference
Animal foodfodder Maesen, L. J. G. van der. 1986. Cajanus DC. and Atylosia W. & A. (Leguminosae). Agric. Univ. Wageningen Pap. 85-4:1-225.
Animal foodpotential as forage Maesen, L. J. G. van der. 1986. Cajanus DC. and Atylosia W. & A. (Leguminosae). Agric. Univ. Wageningen Pap. 85-4:1-225.
Environmentalagroforestry PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource). URL: http://www.prota4u.info/
Environmentalshade/shelterfide Pl Res SEAs 1:40. 1989Maesen, L. J. G. van der & Sadikin Somaatmadja, eds. 1989. Pulses. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 1:39. URL: http://proseanet.org
Environmentalsoil improverfide Pl Res SEAs 1:40. 1989Maesen, L. J. G. van der & Sadikin Somaatmadja, eds. 1989. Pulses. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 1:39. URL: http://proseanet.org
Fuelsfuelwood National Academy of Sciences. 1980. Firewood crops. Shrub and tree species for energy production
Human foodpulsepods and seedsMaesen, L. J. G. van der & Sadikin Somaatmadja, eds. 1989. Pulses. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 1:39. URL: http://proseanet.org
Human foodvegetablepods and seeds fide Pl Res SEAs 1:39-40. 1989Maesen, L. J. G. van der & Sadikin Somaatmadja, eds. 1989. Pulses. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 1:39. URL: http://proseanet.org
Invertebrate foodlac insectsfide Pl Res SEAs 1:40. 1989Maesen, L. J. G. van der & Sadikin Somaatmadja, eds. 1989. Pulses. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 1:39. URL: http://proseanet.org
Invertebrate foodsilkwormsfide Pl Res SEAs 1:40. 1989Maesen, L. J. G. van der & Sadikin Somaatmadja, eds. 1989. Pulses. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 1:39. URL: http://proseanet.org
Medicinesfolklore Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs
Medicinesfolklore McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2 American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, Maryland.


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