Description

Lablab purpureus is a species of bean in the family Fabaceae. It is native to Africa and it is cultivated throughout the tropics for food. In China, the seeds are known as Bai Bian Dou. They are usually dried and baked before being used in traditional Chinese herbal remedies to strengthen the spleen, reduce heat and dampness, and promote appetite.

Scientific classitication

Family: Fabaceae

Genus: Lablab

Common Name

hyacinth bean

Reference

Yue Chang, Huan Liu, Min Liu, Xuezhu Liao, Sunil Kumar Sahu, Yuan Fu, Bo Song, Shifeng Cheng, Robert Kariba, Samuel Muthemba, Prasad S Hendre, Sean Mayes, Wai Kuan Ho, Anna E J Yssel, Presidor Kendabie, Sibo Wang, Linzhou Li, Alice Muchugi, Ramni Jamnadass, Haorong Lu, Shufeng Peng, Allen Van Deynze, Anthony Simons, Howard Yana-Shapiro, Yves Van de Peer, Xun Xu, Huanming Yang, Jian Wang, Xin Liu, The draft genomes of five agriculturally important African orphan crops, GigaScience, Volume 8, Issue 3, March 2019, giy152, https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giy152