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Phaseolus (bean, wild bean) is a genus of herbaceous to woody annual and perennial vines in the family Fabaceae containing about 70 plant species, all native to the Americas, primarily Mesoamerica.

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Phaseolus is a group of about 70 plant species in the bean family that grow as vines, native to the Americas and especially Central America. These plants matter because they include important food crops that have been cultivated for thousands of years and remain widely eaten around the world today.

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Species

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Genus

  1. PhylumMollusca
  2. ClassBivalvia
  3. OrderNuculanida
  4. FamilyPhaseolidae
Habitatmarine
Native toAlabama, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Arizona, Arkansas, Belize, Bermuda, Bolivia, California, Colombia, Connecticut, Costa Rica

菜豆属(学名:Phaseolus)是蝶形花科下的一个属,为缠绕或直立草本植物。该属共有150种以上,分布于热带和温带地区。

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
2,426
With media
1,218
Family
Fabaceae
Collections
CICY, GH, UACH, IBUNAM, USNM
Recorded in
Mexico, Chile

Research

9,929 papers

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Encyclopedic overview

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Contents
  • Ecology
  • Taxonomy
  • Species
  • Allergenicity
  • References

Phaseolus (bean, wild bean) is a genus of herbaceous to woody annual and perennial vines in the family Fabaceae containing about 70 plant species, all native to the Americas, primarily Mesoamerica.

It is one of the most economically important legume genera. Five of the species have been domesticated since pre-Columbian times for their beans: P. acutifolius (tepary bean), P. coccineus (runner bean), P. dumosus (year bean), P. lunatus (lima bean), and P. vulgaris (common bean). Most prominent among these is the common bean, P. vulgaris, which today is cultivated worldwide in tropical, semitropical, and temperate climates.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Phaseolus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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