Summary
Place of publication:
Bull. Jard. Bot. Natl. Belg. 47:50. 1977
Verified:
10/28/1988
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Reference(s)
- Brunel, J. F. et al., eds. Flore analytique du Togo. Phanerogames. 1984
- Duke, J. A. Handbook of legumes of world economic importance. 1981
- Harms, H. 1908. Ober Geokarpie bei einer afrikanischer Leguminosae. Ber. Deutsch. Bot. Ges. 26a:225-231.
- Mabberley, D. J. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2. 1997
- Pasquet, R. S. et al. 2002. Genetic diversity of the African geocarpic legume Kersting's groundnut, Macrotyloma geocarpum (Tribe Phaseoleae: Fabaceae). Biochem. Syst. & Ecol. 30:943-952.
- Rehm, S. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994
- Verdcourt, B. 1982. A revision of Macrotyloma (Leguminosae). Hooker's Icon. Pl. 38(4):33.
- PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
Common names
English
ground-bean – Kersting's groundnut – French
lentille de terre – German
Erdbohne –
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
1 | Native | Africa | West-Central Tropical Africa | Cameroon | | |
1 | Native | Africa | West-Central Tropical Africa | Central African Republic | | |
2 | Cultivated | Africa | | Africa | | |
Native
Africa
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WEST-CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA:
Central African Republic, Cameroon
Cultivated
Africa
Economic Uses
Usage | Type | Note | Reference |
Human food | potential as vegetable | | Duke, J. A. Handbook of legumes of world economic importance. 1981 |
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System.
2024. Germplasm Resources Information Network
(GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: https://ausgenebank.agriculture.vic.gov.au/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=311411.
Accessed 5 October 2024.