The names moong and urd and the specific epithets really seem to be creating confusion. To set the record straight we are discussing here three taxa (let us forget Phaseolus because most yellow flowered species have now been shifted to Vigna):
Vigna mungo (L.) Hepper: Black gram, Urad bean, Urad, Harikot mungo, Mash; leaflets unlobed, fruits thicker, 4-5 cm long, densely covered with lighter long hairs, seeds dirty green to almost black, hilum surrounded by a raised rim (aril) (5-10 cm long) Vigna radiata var. radiata: Golden gram, Green gram, Moog-bean; plants short, erect, leaflets unlobed, fruits thinner, 6-9 cm long, sparsely covered with shorter brownish hairs, seed light green, longer Vigna radiata var. sublobata: Jarusalem pea, wild moog; plants twinning, leaflets generally lobed, fruit thinner, 4-6 cm long, sparsely covered with shorter brownish hairs, seeds light green, shorter. Neil ji's plant clearly has brownish hairs on pods and some leaflets slightly lobed: It is surely V. radiata var. sublobata, the wild moog Balkar ji's plant with pods having thicker pods with longer lighter hairs should be V. mungo, the urad bean or black gram Sivaprakash ji's plant should also be V. mungo, although difficult to say without fruits. -- Dr. Gurcharan Singh Retired Associate Professor SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 10:52 AM, J.M. Garg <jmga...@gmail.com> wrote: > Forwarding again for Id assistance please. > > Some earlier relevant feedback: > > “I think it should be *some species Phaseolus* > > navendu” > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: shivaprakash adavanne <adava...@gmail.com> > Date: 14 October 2010 07:41 > Subject: [efloraofindia:50671] Requesting id > To: indiantreepix@googlegroups.com > > > hello, > please find attached flowering plant for identification. > > Photographed at Kodachadri ranges, Shimoga district, Karnataka > > regards > a.shivaprakash > > > > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg (jmga...@gmail.com) > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' > The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand species* & > eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged > alphabetically & place-wise): > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use them > for free as per liberal licensing conditions attached with each image. > For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, > please visit/ join our Google e-group- Efloraofindia: > http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 1465 members & > 56,400 messages on 9/12/10 & with a database of around 4350 species on > 15/11/10) > >
