Taxon: Phaseolus coccineus L.

Summary

Genus:

Phaseolus

Section:

Phaseolus

Family:

Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae)

Subfamily:

Faboideae

Tribe:

Phaseoleae

Subtribe:

Phaseolinae

Nomen number:

27563

Place of publication:

Sp. pl. 2:724. 1753

Typification:

View in Linnean Typification Project

Verified:

08/07/2010 ARS Systematic Botanists.

Accessions:

4 (4 active, 3 available) in National Plant Germplasm System. (Map it)

Other conspecific taxa

Phaseolus coccineus L. subsp. coccineus (0 active accession[s])
Phaseolus coccineus L. subsp. coccineus var. argenteus Freytag (0 active accession[s])
Phaseolus coccineus L. subsp. coccineus var. coccineus (0 active accession[s])
Phaseolus coccineus L. subsp. coccineus var. condensatus Freytag (0 active accession[s])
Phaseolus coccineus L. subsp. coccineus var. griseus (Piper) Freytag (0 active accession[s])
Phaseolus coccineus L. subsp. coccineus var. lineatibracteolatus Freytag (0 active accession[s])
Phaseolus coccineus L. subsp. coccineus var. parvibracteolatus Freytag (0 active accession[s])
Phaseolus coccineus L. subsp. coccineus var. pubescens Freytag (0 active accession[s])
Phaseolus coccineus L. subsp. coccineus var. semperbracteolatus Freytag (0 active accession[s])
Phaseolus coccineus L. subsp. coccineus var. splendens Freytag (0 active accession[s])
Phaseolus coccineus L. subsp. coccineus var. strigillosus (Piper) Freytag (0 active accession[s])
Phaseolus coccineus L. subsp. coccineus var. tridentatus Freytag (0 active accession[s])
Phaseolus coccineus L. subsp. coccineus var. zongolicensis Freytag (0 active accession[s])
Phaseolus coccineus L. subsp. striatus (Brandegee) Freytag (0 active accession[s])
Phaseolus coccineus L. subsp. striatus (Brandegee) Freytag var. guatemalensis Freytag (0 active accession[s])
Phaseolus coccineus L. subsp. striatus (Brandegee) Freytag var. minuticicatricatus Freytag (0 active accession[s])
Phaseolus coccineus L. subsp. striatus (Brandegee) Freytag var. pringlei Rose ex Freytag (0 active accession[s])
Phaseolus coccineus L. subsp. striatus (Brandegee) Freytag var. purpurascens Freytag (0 active accession[s])
Phaseolus coccineus L. subsp. striatus (Brandegee) Freytag var. rigidicaulis Freytag (0 active accession[s])
Phaseolus coccineus L. subsp. striatus (Brandegee) Freytag var. striatus (Brandegee) Freytag (0 active accession[s])
Phaseolus coccineus L. subsp. striatus (Brandegee) Freytag var. timilpanensis Freytag (0 active accession[s])

Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations

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Conservation Status

Reference(s)

PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)
APHIS. Agricultural Risk Management System United States Department of Agriculture.
Baudet, J. C. 1977. Origine et classification des espèces cultivées du genre Phaseolus. Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belgique 110:69.
Budanova, V. I. & N. R. Ivanov. 1973. K sistematike roda Phaseolus L. (To the sistematics of the genus Phaseolus L.). Trudy Prikl. Bot. 51:28.
Duke, J. A. 1981. Handbook of legumes of world economic importance
Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage
Escalante, A. M. et al. 1994. Genetic structure and mating systems in wild and cultivated populations of Phaseolus coccineus and P. vulgaris (Fabaceae). Amer. J. Bot. 81:1096-1103.
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
Freytag, G. F. & D. G. Debouck. 2002. Taxonomy, distribution, and ecology of the genus Phaseolus (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) in North America, Mexico and Central America. Sida, Bot. Misc. 23:55-98.
González, A. M. et al. 2014. Effect of the inbreeding depression in progeny fitness of runner bean (Phaseolus coccineus L.) and it is implications for breeding. Euphytica 200:413-428. DOI: 10.1007/s10681-014-1177-2. Note: Netherlands journal of plant breeding
International Seed Testing Association. 1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
Kingsbury, J. M. 1964. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada.
Lee, Y. N. 1997. Flora of Korea.
Leitão, H. F. 1974. Contribuição ao estudo taxonômico do gênero Phaseolus L. no Brasil. Bragantia 33:62.
Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. A concise dictionary of plants cultivated in the United States and Canada
Maesen, L. J. G. van der & Sadikin Somaatmadja, eds. 1989. Pulses. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 1:56.
Mahuku, G. S. et al. 2003. Sources of resistance to angular leaf spot (Phaeoisariopsis griseola) in common bean core collection, wild Phaseolus vulgaris and secondary gene pool. Euphytica 130:303-313. Note: Netherlands journal of plant breeding
Maréchal, R. et al. 1978. Étude taxonomique d'un groupe complexe d'espèces des genres Phaseolus et Vigna (Papilionaceae) sur la base données morphologiques et polliniques, traitées par l'analyse informatique. Boissiera 28:137.
Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2
McVaugh, R. 1983-. Flora Novo-Galiciana.
Mun-Chan, B. et al. 1986. A checklist of the Korean cultivated plants. Kulturpflanze 34:116.
National Academy of Sciences. 1979. Tropical legumes: resources for the future
Personal Care Products Council. INCI
Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Schmit, V. et al. 1993. Use of chloroplast DNA polymorphisms for the phylogenetic study of seven Phaseolus taxa including P. vulgaris and P. coccineus. Theor. Appl. Genet. 87:506-516.
Spataro, G. et al. 2011. Genetic diversity and structure of a worldwide collection of Phaseolus coccineus L. Theor. Appl. Genet. 122:1281-1291. DOI: 10.1007/s00122-011-1530-y.
Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark. 1946-1976. Flora of Guatemala.
Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964-1980. Flora europaea. Note: cultivated
Vibrans, H., ed. Malezas de México (on-line resource).
Walker, E. 1976. Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands.
Woodson, R. E. & R. W. Schery, eds. 1943-1980. Flora of Panama.
Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition).
1998. Federal Seed Act and Regulations, Agricultural and Vegetable Kind Lists, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Marketing Service, Seed Regulatory and Testing Branch.

Common names

Language	Name	seq	Citation
English	multiflora bean	1	Duke, J. A. 1981. Handbook of legumes of world economic importance
English	runner bean	1	1998. Federal Seed Act and Regulations, Agricultural and Vegetable Kind Lists, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Marketing Service, Seed Regulatory and Testing Branch.
English	scarlet runner bean	1	Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
French	haricot d'Espagne	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
German	Feuerbohne	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Italian	fagiolo die Spagna	2	International Seed Testing Association. 1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
Japanese Rōmaji	hana-sasage	2	Walker, E. 1976. Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands.
Portuguese (Brazil)	feijão-da-Espanha	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Portuguese (Brazil)	feijão-trepador	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanish	cubá	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanish	judía encarnada	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanish	judía pinta	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanish	pilay	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Swedish	rosenböna	2	Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)
Transcribed Chinese	he bao dou	2	Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition).
Transcribed Korean	bulgeungangnamkong	2	Lee, Y. N. 1997. Flora of Korea.

Distribution

order_code	Status	Continent	Subcontinent	Country	State	Note	Reference
1	Native	Northern America	Northern Mexico	Mexico	Chihuahua		McVaugh, R. 1983-. Flora Novo-Galiciana.
1	Native	Northern America	Northern Mexico	Mexico	Durango		McVaugh, R. 1983-. Flora Novo-Galiciana.
1	Native	Northern America	Northern Mexico	Mexico	Nuevo León		McVaugh, R. 1983-. Flora Novo-Galiciana.
1	Native	Northern America	Northern Mexico	Mexico	San Luis Potosí		McVaugh, R. 1983-. Flora Novo-Galiciana.
1	Native	Northern America	Northern Mexico	Mexico	Sinaloa		McVaugh, R. 1983-. Flora Novo-Galiciana.
1	Native	Northern America	Northern Mexico	Mexico	Tamaulipas		McVaugh, R. 1983-. Flora Novo-Galiciana.
1	Native	Northern America	Northern Mexico	Mexico	Zacatecas		McVaugh, R. 1983-. Flora Novo-Galiciana.
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Chiapas		McVaugh, R. 1983-. Flora Novo-Galiciana.
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Ciudad de México		McVaugh, R. 1983-. Flora Novo-Galiciana.
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Guanajuato		McVaugh, R. 1983-. Flora Novo-Galiciana.
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Guerrero		McVaugh, R. 1983-. Flora Novo-Galiciana.
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Hidalgo		McVaugh, R. 1983-. Flora Novo-Galiciana.
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Jalisco		McVaugh, R. 1983-. Flora Novo-Galiciana.
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	México		McVaugh, R. 1983-. Flora Novo-Galiciana.
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Michoacán de Ocampo		McVaugh, R. 1983-. Flora Novo-Galiciana.
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Morelos		McVaugh, R. 1983-. Flora Novo-Galiciana.
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Nayarit		McVaugh, R. 1983-. Flora Novo-Galiciana.
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Oaxaca		McVaugh, R. 1983-. Flora Novo-Galiciana.
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Puebla		McVaugh, R. 1983-. Flora Novo-Galiciana.
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Querétaro		McVaugh, R. 1983-. Flora Novo-Galiciana.
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Tlaxcala		McVaugh, R. 1983-. Flora Novo-Galiciana.
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave		McVaugh, R. 1983-. Flora Novo-Galiciana.
1	Native	Southern America	Central America	Costa Rica	Alajuela		Freytag, G. F. & D. G. Debouck. 2002. Taxonomy, distribution, and ecology of the genus Phaseolus (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) in North America, Mexico and Central America. Sida, Bot. Misc. 23:55-98.
1	Native	Southern America	Central America	El Salvador	Chalatenango		Freytag, G. F. & D. G. Debouck. 2002. Taxonomy, distribution, and ecology of the genus Phaseolus (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) in North America, Mexico and Central America. Sida, Bot. Misc. 23:55-98.
1	Native	Southern America	Central America	Guatemala	Chimaltenango		Freytag, G. F. & D. G. Debouck. 2002. Taxonomy, distribution, and ecology of the genus Phaseolus (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) in North America, Mexico and Central America. Sida, Bot. Misc. 23:55-98.
1	Native	Southern America	Central America	Guatemala	Escuintla		Freytag, G. F. & D. G. Debouck. 2002. Taxonomy, distribution, and ecology of the genus Phaseolus (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) in North America, Mexico and Central America. Sida, Bot. Misc. 23:55-98.
1	Native	Southern America	Central America	Guatemala	Guatemala		Freytag, G. F. & D. G. Debouck. 2002. Taxonomy, distribution, and ecology of the genus Phaseolus (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) in North America, Mexico and Central America. Sida, Bot. Misc. 23:55-98.
1	Native	Southern America	Central America	Guatemala	Huehuetenango		Freytag, G. F. & D. G. Debouck. 2002. Taxonomy, distribution, and ecology of the genus Phaseolus (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) in North America, Mexico and Central America. Sida, Bot. Misc. 23:55-98.
1	Native	Southern America	Central America	Guatemala	Jalapa		Freytag, G. F. & D. G. Debouck. 2002. Taxonomy, distribution, and ecology of the genus Phaseolus (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) in North America, Mexico and Central America. Sida, Bot. Misc. 23:55-98.
1	Native	Southern America	Central America	Guatemala	Jutiapa		Freytag, G. F. & D. G. Debouck. 2002. Taxonomy, distribution, and ecology of the genus Phaseolus (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) in North America, Mexico and Central America. Sida, Bot. Misc. 23:55-98.
1	Native	Southern America	Central America	Guatemala	Quetzaltenango		Freytag, G. F. & D. G. Debouck. 2002. Taxonomy, distribution, and ecology of the genus Phaseolus (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) in North America, Mexico and Central America. Sida, Bot. Misc. 23:55-98.
1	Native	Southern America	Central America	Guatemala	Sacatepéquez		Freytag, G. F. & D. G. Debouck. 2002. Taxonomy, distribution, and ecology of the genus Phaseolus (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) in North America, Mexico and Central America. Sida, Bot. Misc. 23:55-98.
1	Native	Southern America	Central America	Guatemala	San Marcos		Freytag, G. F. & D. G. Debouck. 2002. Taxonomy, distribution, and ecology of the genus Phaseolus (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) in North America, Mexico and Central America. Sida, Bot. Misc. 23:55-98.
1	Native	Southern America	Central America	Guatemala	Sololá		Freytag, G. F. & D. G. Debouck. 2002. Taxonomy, distribution, and ecology of the genus Phaseolus (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) in North America, Mexico and Central America. Sida, Bot. Misc. 23:55-98.
1	Native	Southern America	Central America	Guatemala	Suchitepéquez		Freytag, G. F. & D. G. Debouck. 2002. Taxonomy, distribution, and ecology of the genus Phaseolus (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) in North America, Mexico and Central America. Sida, Bot. Misc. 23:55-98.
1	Native	Southern America	Central America	Guatemala	Zacapa		Freytag, G. F. & D. G. Debouck. 2002. Taxonomy, distribution, and ecology of the genus Phaseolus (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) in North America, Mexico and Central America. Sida, Bot. Misc. 23:55-98.
1	Native	Southern America	Central America	Honduras	Francisco Morazán		Freytag, G. F. & D. G. Debouck. 2002. Taxonomy, distribution, and ecology of the genus Phaseolus (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) in North America, Mexico and Central America. Sida, Bot. Misc. 23:55-98.
1	Native	Southern America	Central America	Nicaragua	Jinotega		Freytag, G. F. & D. G. Debouck. 2002. Taxonomy, distribution, and ecology of the genus Phaseolus (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) in North America, Mexico and Central America. Sida, Bot. Misc. 23:55-98.
1	Native	Southern America	Central America	Nicaragua	Matagalpa		Freytag, G. F. & D. G. Debouck. 2002. Taxonomy, distribution, and ecology of the genus Phaseolus (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) in North America, Mexico and Central America. Sida, Bot. Misc. 23:55-98.
2	Cultivated					widely cult.	Escalante, A. M. et al. 1994. Genetic structure and mating systems in wild and cultivated populations of Phaseolus coccineus and P. vulgaris (Fabaceae). Amer. J. Bot. 81:1096-1103.

Native
Northern America

NORTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Chihuahua, Durango, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, Sinaloa, Tamaulipas, Zacatecas]
SOUTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Chiapas, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, México, Michoacán de Ocampo, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla, Querétaro, Tlaxcala, Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave, Ciudad de México]

Southern America

CENTRAL AMERICA: Costa Rica [Alajuela], Guatemala [Chimaltenango, Escuintla, Guatemala, Huehuetenango, Jalapa, Jutiapa, Quetzaltenango, Sololá, Sacatepéquez, San Marcos, Zacapa, Suchitepéquez], Honduras [Francisco Morazán], Nicaragua [Jinotega, Matagalpa], El Salvador [Chalatenango]

Cultivated (widely cult.)

Reference(s)

Escalante, A. M. et al. 1994. Genetic structure and mating systems in wild and cultivated populations of Phaseolus coccineus and P. vulgaris (Fabaceae). Amer. J. Bot. 81:1096-1103.
Freytag, G. F. & D. G. Debouck. 2002. Taxonomy, distribution, and ecology of the genus Phaseolus (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) in North America, Mexico and Central America. Sida, Bot. Misc. 23:55-98.
McVaugh, R. 1983-. Flora Novo-Galiciana.

Economic Uses

Usage	Type	Note	Reference
Vertebrate poisons	mammals		Kingsbury, J. M. 1964. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada.

Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2026. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: https://grin-global.warwick.ac.uk/gringlobal/taxonomydetail?id=27563. Accessed 14 April 2026.