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Phaseolus
Phaseolus meaning
any of several domesticated beans, of the genus Phaseolus, native to the Americas
Synonyms of Phaseolus
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The frequently garden grown common bean - Phaseolus vulgaris - is epigeal while the closely related runner bean - Phaseolus coccineus - is hypogeal.
According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization the term bean should include only species of Phaseolus; however, enforcing that prescription has proven difficult for several reasons.
Five kinds of Phaseolus beans were domesticated Kaplan, p. 30: Domestication, besides involving selection for larger seed size, also involved selection for pods that did not curl and open when ripe, scattering the beans they contained.
One is that in the past, several species, including Vigna angularis (azuki bean), mungo ( black gram ), radiata ( green gram ), and aconitifolia ( moth bean ), were classified as Phaseolus and later reclassified.
This was long before the New World genus Phaseolus was known in Europe.