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Each value Trefle shows for Vigna mungo, with what every source says about it. When sources disagree, the strongest source is shown (how sources are ranked). Values imported before sources were recorded one by one are marked Source not recorded.

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Sourced5 Source not recorded7 Not on the record2 Sources: TRY Plant Trait Database, Earlier Trefle data, POWO / WCVP (Kew)

Field	Shown	What the sources say
Core
Author	(L.) Hepper	(L.) Hepper · POWO / WCVP (Kew) · Reported · 2026-10-11	Sourced
Bibliography	Kew Bull. 1956:128. 1956	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Phylum	Tracheophyta	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Rank	species	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Status	accepted	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Year	1956	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Descriptive
Common name	Black gram	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Observations	a cultigen from Indian Subcontinent	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Morphology
Fruit shape	empty	legume · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 1 observation · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 882	Not on the record
Growth habit	Vine, Forb/herb	Vine, Forb/herb · Earlier Trefle data · Reported · 2026-10-19 value present before provenance tracking (2022 import), no source recorded	Sourced
Maximum height	empty	300 cm · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 1 observation · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 882	Not on the record
Vegetable	true	true · Earlier Trefle data · Reported · 2026-10-19 value present before provenance tracking (2022 import), no source recorded	Sourced
Phenology
Duration	annual	annual · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 2 observations · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 882	Sourced
Ecology
Nitrogen fixation	High	High · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 7 observations · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 444, 445	Sourced

Vigna mungo (L.) Hepper, 1956 13% complete

Black gram

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