Taxon: Phaseolus coccineus L. subsp. coccineus var. coccineus

Summary

Genus:

Phaseolus

Section:

Phaseolus

Family:

Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae)

Subfamily:

Faboideae

Tribe:

Phaseoleae

Subtribe:

Phaseolinae

Nomen number:

300446

Verified:

08/11/2010 ARS Systematic Botanists.

Accessions:

0 (0 active, 0 available) in National Plant Germplasm System.

Other conspecific taxa

Phaseolus coccineus L. (4 active accession[s])
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. 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

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Phaseolus coccineus L. subsp. formosus (Kunth) Maréchal et al.
Phaseolus coccineus L. subsp. obvallatus (Schltdl.) Maréchal et al.
Phaseolus formosus Kunth
Phaseolus leiosepalus Piper
Phaseolus multiflorus Lam.
Phaseolus obvallatus Schltdl.

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Conservation Status

Reference(s)

Delgado S., A. 1988. Variation, taxonomy, domestication, and germplasm potentialities in Phaseolus coccineus. In: Gepts, P., ed., Genetic resources of Phaseolus beans 441-463.
Delgado-Salinas, A. 1985. Systematics of the genus Phaseolus (Leguminosae) in North and Central America 210. Note: Ph.D. dissertation, University of Texas
Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage
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. 23:1-300.
Hackett, C. & J. Carolane. 1982. Edible Horticultural Crops Academic Press.
Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2
Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
Spataro, G. et al. 2011. Genetic diversity and structure of a worlwide collection of Phaseolus coccineus L. Theor. Appl. Genet. 122:1281-1291. Note: it recognized Phaseolus coccineus as the third most economically important Phaseolus bean; it commented that in this outbreeding species "gene flow between wild and domesticated forms living nearby probably makes the domestication bottleneck less restricted than that which occurred in P. vulgaris"

Common names

LANGUAGE	NAME	ALTERNATE NAME	NOTE	SEQ	CITATION
Spanish	ayocote			2	Hackett, C. & J. Carolane. 1982. Edible Horticultural Crops Academic Press.

Distribution

order_code	Status	Continent	Subcontinent	Country	State	Note
1	Native	Northern America	Northern Mexico	Mexico	Chihuahua
1	Native	Northern America	Northern Mexico	Mexico	Durango
1	Native	Northern America	Northern Mexico	Mexico	San Luis Potosí
1	Native	Northern America	Northern Mexico	Mexico	Sinaloa
1	Native	Northern America	Northern Mexico	Mexico	Tamaulipas
1	Native	Northern America	Northern Mexico	Mexico	Zacatecas
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Chiapas
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Ciudad de México
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Guanajuato
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Guerrero
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Hidalgo
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Jalisco
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	México
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Michoacán de Ocampo
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Morelos
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Oaxaca
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Puebla
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Querétaro
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Tlaxcala
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave
1	Native	Southern America	Central America	Costa Rica	Alajuela
1	Native	Southern America	Central America	El Salvador	Chalatenango
1	Native	Southern America	Central America	Guatemala	Chimaltenango
1	Native	Southern America	Central America	Guatemala	Escuintla
1	Native	Southern America	Central America	Guatemala	Guatemala
1	Native	Southern America	Central America	Guatemala	Huehuetenango
1	Native	Southern America	Central America	Guatemala	Jalapa
1	Native	Southern America	Central America	Guatemala	Jutiapa
1	Native	Southern America	Central America	Guatemala	Quetzaltenango
1	Native	Southern America	Central America	Guatemala	Sacatepéquez
1	Native	Southern America	Central America	Guatemala	San Marcos
1	Native	Southern America	Central America	Guatemala	Sololá
1	Native	Southern America	Central America	Guatemala	Suchitepéquez
1	Native	Southern America	Central America	Guatemala	Zacapa
1	Native	Southern America	Central America	Honduras	Francisco Morazán
2	Cultivated					also cult. elsewhere
2	Cultivated	Northern America		Mexico
2	Cultivated	Southern America		South America
2	Cultivated	Southern America	Central America	Central America

Native
Northern America

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

Southern America

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

Cultivated

REGION:

Northern America

REGION: Mexico

Southern America

CENTRAL AMERICA: Central America
REGION: South America

Economic Uses

Usage	Type	Reference
Environmental	ornamental	Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage
Human food	pulse	Delgado S., A. 1988. Variation, taxonomy, domestication, and germplasm potentialities in Phaseolus coccineus. In: Gepts, P., ed., Genetic resources of Phaseolus beans 441-463.
Human food	pulse	Hackett, C. & J. Carolane. 1982. Edible Horticultural Crops Academic Press.
Human food	vegetable	Delgado S., A. 1988. Variation, taxonomy, domestication, and germplasm potentialities in Phaseolus coccineus. In: Gepts, P., ed., Genetic resources of Phaseolus beans 441-463.
Human food	vegetable	Hackett, C. & J. Carolane. 1982. Edible Horticultural Crops Academic Press.

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://grin-global.warwick.ac.uk/gringlobal/taxonomydetail?id=300446. Accessed 22 November 2024.