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Taxon:  Macrotyloma uniflorum (Lam.) Verdc.



Summary
Genus:
Macrotyloma
Family:
Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae)
Subfamily:
Faboideae
Tribe:
Phaseoleae
Subtribe:
Phaseolinae
Nomen number:
23076
Place of publication:
Kew Bull. 24:322, 401. 1970
Verified:
07/22/2002 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
47 (47  active, 15  available) in Australian Pastures Genebank.  (Map it)
Other conspecific taxa
Macrotyloma uniflorum (Lam.) Verdc. var. benadirianum (Chiov.) Verdc. (0 active accession[s])
Macrotyloma uniflorum (Lam.) Verdc. var. stenocarpum (Brenan) Verdc. (0 active accession[s])
Macrotyloma uniflorum (Lam.) Verdc. var. uniflorum (0 active accession[s])
Macrotyloma uniflorum (Lam.) Verdc. var. verrucosum Verdc. (0 active accession[s])
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
No images


Reference(s)
  1. Duke, J. A. Handbook of legumes of world economic importance. 1981
  2. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
  3. Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long. Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim. 1984-
  4. Huang, S. F. & T. C. Huang. Taxonomic treatment of the Papilionoideae (Leguminosae) of Taiwan. Taiwania 32:11-117. 1987
  5. Maesen, L. J. G. van der & Sadikin Somaatmadja, eds. 1989. Pulses. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 1989- 1:53.
  6. Matthew, K. M. The flora of the Tamilnadu Carnatic. 1983
  7. McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. 2000
  8. McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. 2000
  9. Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. Flora of [West] Pakistan. 1970-
  10. Rehm, S. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994
  11. Siddaramaiah, V. K. & D. J. Bagyaraj. 1980. Isolation, testing and selection of an inoculant strain of Rhizobium for horsegram Macrotyloma uniflorum (Lam.) Verdc. II. Competition with the native rhizobia and survival in the carrier material. Mysore J. Agric. Sci. 14(4):487-490.
  12. Thulin, M. Leguminosae of Ethiopia. Opera Bot. 68:1-223. 1983
  13. Troupin, G. Flore du Rwanda. 1978-
  14. Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. Flora of tropical East Africa. 1952-
  15. Verdcourt, B. 1982. A revision of Macrotyloma (Leguminosae). Hooker's Icon. Pl. 38(4):37.
  16. Verdcourt, B. 1996. (1226) Proposal to reject the name Dolichos pubescens L. (Leguminosae). Taxon 45:330.
  17. Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. World economic plants: a standard reference (on-line edition) [medicinal plants only].
  18. Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. Flora of China (English edition). 1994-
  19. PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
Common names
English
horse gram –
Madras gram –
French
dolic biflore –
German
Pferdebohne –
India
kulthi –
Portuguese
faveira –
Spanish
frijol verde –
Transcribed Chinese
ying pi dou –
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
1NativeAfricaEast Tropical AfricaKenya  
1NativeAfricaEast Tropical AfricaTanzania  
1NativeAfricaNortheast Tropical AfricaEthiopia  
1NativeAfricaNortheast Tropical AfricaSomalia  
1NativeAfricaSouth Tropical AfricaAngola  
1NativeAfricaSouth Tropical AfricaMozambique  
1NativeAfricaSouth Tropical AfricaZimbabwe  
1NativeAfricaSouthern AfricaBotswana  
1NativeAfricaSouthern AfricaNamibia  
1NativeAfricaSouthern AfricaSouth AfricaTransvaal 
1NativeAfricaWest-Central Tropical AfricaRwanda  
1NativeAfricaWest-Central Tropical AfricaZaire  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentBhutan  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndia  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentNepal  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentPakistan  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentSri Lanka  
2Cultivated     
4NaturalizedAsia-TemperateEastern AsiaTaiwan  
Native
Africa
  • EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Kenya, Tanzania
  • NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Ethiopia, Somalia
  • SOUTH TROPICAL AFRICA: Angola, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
  • SOUTHERN AFRICA: Botswana, Namibia, South Africa [Transvaal]
  • WEST-CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA: Rwanda, Zaire
Asia-Tropical
  • INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: Bhutan, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Pakistan
Cultivated ()
Naturalized
Asia-Temperate
  • EASTERN ASIA: Taiwan
Economic Uses
UsageTypeNoteReference
Animal foodfodder Verdcourt, B. 1996. (1226) Proposal to reject the name Dolichos pubescens L. (Leguminosae). Taxon 45:330.
Environmentalsoil improver Duke, J. A. Handbook of legumes of world economic importance. 1981
Human foodpulse Verdcourt, B. 1996. (1226) Proposal to reject the name Dolichos pubescens L. (Leguminosae). Taxon 45:330.
Medicinesfolklore McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. 2000
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2025. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: https://apg.pir.sa.gov.au/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=23076. Accessed 20 July 2025.


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