Common Name |
Scientific Name |
Alder
|
Alnus spp.
|
Azolia
|
Azolia pinnata
|
Bambara
groundnut
|
Vigna subterranea
|
Black
bean (see lablab bean)
|
|
Broad
bean (see fava bean)
|
|
Buckwheat
|
Fagopyrum esculentum
|
Calopo
|
Calopogoniium mucunoides
|
Centrosema
|
Centrosema pubescens
|
Chickpea
|
Cicer arietinum
|
Choreque
|
Lathyrus nigrivalvis
|
Common
pea
|
Pisum sativa
|
Cowpea
|
Vigna unguiculata
|
Crotalarias
|
Crotalaria
spp.
|
Desmodium
|
Desmodium ovalifolium and
D. trifolium
|
Faidherbia
|
Faidherbia albida
|
Fava
bean
|
Vicia faba
|
Fonio
|
Digitaria exilis
|
Forage
peanut (see perennial peanut)
|
|
Garbanzo
bean (see chickpea)
|
|
Gliricidia
|
Gliricidia sepium
|
Grasspea
|
Lathyrus sativa
|
Green
bean (see mung bean)
|
|
Groundnut
(see peanut)
|
|
Horsepea (see
lablab bean)
|
|
Hyacinth
bean (see lablab bean)
|
|
Indigofera
|
Indigofera spp.
|
Inga
|
Inga
spp.
|
Jack
bean
|
Canavalia ensiformis
|
Lablab
bean
|
Dolichos lablab
|
Leucaena
|
Leucaena leucocephala,
L diversifolia
|
Lima
bean
|
Phaseolus lunatus
|
Lojy Be
(pronounced LOO dzeh BEH) (see
cowpea)
|
|
Madre
de cacao (see gliricidia)
|
|
Macuna
|
Mucuna spp.
|
Mung
bean
|
Vigna radiate
|
Peanut
|
Arachis hypogaea
|
Perennial
peanut
|
Arachis pintoi
|
Piliostigma
|
Piliostigma spp.
|
Quickstick (see gliricidia)
|
|
Rice
bean
|
Vigna umbellate
|
Runner
bean
|
Phaseolus coccineus
|
Scarlet
runner bean (see runner bean)
|
|
Sesbania
|
Sesbania rostrate
|
Soybean
|
Glycine
max
|
Stylo
|
Stylosanthes spp.
|
Sunn hemp
|
Crotalaria juncea
|
Sweet
clover
|
Melilotus albus
|
Tailcup lupine
|
Lupinus caudatus
|
Tarwi
|
Lupinus mutabilis
|
Tephrosia
|
Tephrosia vogelii and
T candida
|
Tithonia
|
Tithonia diversifolia
|
Velvet
bean (see mucuna)
|
|
Vetch
|
Vicia spp.
|
Wild
sunflower (see tithonia)
|
|
Yam
bean
|
Pachyrhizus erosus
|