| Latin name | Vigna radiata (L.) Wilczek var. sublobata (Roxb.) Verdc. | | Family | Leguminosae | | Identified with (Lat) | Phaseolus sublobatus Roxb. | | Identified with (Skt) | māṣaparṇī | | Identified with (Hin) | banurad | | Identified with (Tam) | kāṭṭu uḷuntu | | Identified with (Mal) | kāṭṭuḻunnu | | Identified with (Eng) | Wild black gram | | Botanical info | A herbaceous annual plant, 40 - 120 cm high, twining upper branches and clothed with silky hairs, leaves trifoliate, flowers in clusters of 10 - 25 on long pedicels, fruits thin pods, seeds 10 - 15 per pod, growing throughout India | | Search occurrence | māṣaparṇī, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts | | See plant's image | Vigna radiata (L.) Wilczek var. sublobata (Roxb.) Verdc. in Google image search | Encyclopedias &
Dictionaries | Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 814)
māṣaparṇī, f. Glycine Debilis, Var., Suśr.
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