Taxon: Phaseolus coccineus L. subsp. coccineus var. coccineus

Summary

Genus:

Phaseolus

Section:

Phaseolus

Family:

Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae)

Subfamily:

Faboideae

Tribe:

Phaseoleae

Subtribe:

Phaseolinae

Nomen number:

300446

Verified:

08/11/2010 ARS Systematic Botanists.

Accessions:

41 (20 active, 1 available) in National Plant Germplasm System. (Map it)

Other conspecific taxa

Phaseolus coccineus L. (455 active accession[s])
Phaseolus coccineus L. subsp. coccineus (5 active accession[s])
Phaseolus coccineus L. subsp. coccineus var. argenteus Freytag (0 active accession[s])
Phaseolus coccineus L. subsp. coccineus var. condensatus Freytag (0 active accession[s])
Phaseolus coccineus L. subsp. coccineus var. griseus (Piper) Freytag (2 active accession[s])
Phaseolus coccineus L. subsp. coccineus var. lineatibracteolatus Freytag (0 active accession[s])
Phaseolus coccineus L. subsp. coccineus var. parvibracteolatus Freytag (0 active accession[s])
Phaseolus coccineus L. subsp. coccineus var. pubescens Freytag (0 active accession[s])
Phaseolus coccineus L. subsp. coccineus var. semperbracteolatus Freytag (0 active accession[s])
Phaseolus coccineus L. subsp. coccineus var. splendens Freytag (0 active accession[s])
Phaseolus coccineus L. subsp. coccineus var. strigillosus (Piper) Freytag (0 active accession[s])
Phaseolus coccineus L. subsp. coccineus var. tridentatus Freytag (1 active accession[s])
Phaseolus coccineus L. subsp. coccineus var. zongolicensis Freytag (0 active accession[s])
Phaseolus coccineus L. subsp. striatus (Brandegee) Freytag (0 active accession[s])
Phaseolus coccineus L. subsp. striatus (Brandegee) Freytag var. guatemalensis Freytag (0 active accession[s])
Phaseolus coccineus L. subsp. striatus (Brandegee) Freytag var. minuticicatricatus Freytag (0 active accession[s])
Phaseolus coccineus L. subsp. striatus (Brandegee) Freytag var. pringlei Rose ex Freytag (0 active accession[s])
Phaseolus coccineus L. subsp. striatus (Brandegee) Freytag var. purpurascens Freytag (0 active accession[s])
Phaseolus coccineus L. subsp. striatus (Brandegee) Freytag var. rigidicaulis Freytag (0 active accession[s])
Phaseolus coccineus L. subsp. striatus (Brandegee) Freytag var. striatus (Brandegee) Freytag (0 active accession[s])
Phaseolus coccineus L. subsp. striatus (Brandegee) Freytag var. timilpanensis Freytag (0 active accession[s])

Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Phaseolus coccineus L. subsp. formosus (Kunth) Maréchal et al.
Phaseolus coccineus L. subsp. obvallatus (Schltdl.) Maréchal et al.
Phaseolus formosus Kunth
Phaseolus leiosepalus Piper
Phaseolus multiflorus Lam.
Phaseolus obvallatus Schltdl.

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Conservation Status

Reference(s)

Delgado S., A. 1988. Variation, taxonomy, domestication, and germplasm potentialities in Phaseolus coccineus. In: Gepts, P., ed., Genetic resources of Phaseolus beans 441-463.
Delgado-Salinas, A. 1985. Systematics of the genus Phaseolus (Leguminosae) in North and Central America 210. Note: Ph.D. dissertation, University of Texas
Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage
Freytag, G. F. & D. G. Debouck. 2002. Taxonomy, distribution, and ecology of the genus Phaseolus (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) in North America, Mexico and Central America. Sida, Bot. Misc. 23:1-300.
Hackett, C. & J. Carolane. 1982. Edible Horticultural Crops Academic Press.
Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2
Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
Spataro, G. et al. 2011. Genetic diversity and structure of a worlwide collection of Phaseolus coccineus L. Theor. Appl. Genet. 122:1281-1291. Note: it recognized Phaseolus coccineus as the third most economically important Phaseolus bean; it commented that in this outbreeding species "gene flow between wild and domesticated forms living nearby probably makes the domestication bottleneck less restricted than that which occurred in P. vulgaris"

Common names

Language	Name	Alternate name	note	seq	Citation
Spanish	ayocote			2	Hackett, C. & J. Carolane. 1982. Edible Horticultural Crops Academic Press.

Distribution

order_code	Status	Continent	Subcontinent	Country	State	Note	Reference
1	Native	Northern America	Northern Mexico	Mexico	Chihuahua		Freytag, G. F. & D. G. Debouck. 2002. Taxonomy, distribution, and ecology of the genus Phaseolus (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) in North America, Mexico and Central America. Sida, Bot. Misc. 23:1-300.
1	Native	Northern America	Northern Mexico	Mexico	Durango		Freytag, G. F. & D. G. Debouck. 2002. Taxonomy, distribution, and ecology of the genus Phaseolus (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) in North America, Mexico and Central America. Sida, Bot. Misc. 23:1-300.
1	Native	Northern America	Northern Mexico	Mexico	San Luis Potosí		Freytag, G. F. & D. G. Debouck. 2002. Taxonomy, distribution, and ecology of the genus Phaseolus (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) in North America, Mexico and Central America. Sida, Bot. Misc. 23:1-300.
1	Native	Northern America	Northern Mexico	Mexico	Sinaloa		Freytag, G. F. & D. G. Debouck. 2002. Taxonomy, distribution, and ecology of the genus Phaseolus (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) in North America, Mexico and Central America. Sida, Bot. Misc. 23:1-300.
1	Native	Northern America	Northern Mexico	Mexico	Tamaulipas		Freytag, G. F. & D. G. Debouck. 2002. Taxonomy, distribution, and ecology of the genus Phaseolus (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) in North America, Mexico and Central America. Sida, Bot. Misc. 23:1-300.
1	Native	Northern America	Northern Mexico	Mexico	Zacatecas		Freytag, G. F. & D. G. Debouck. 2002. Taxonomy, distribution, and ecology of the genus Phaseolus (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) in North America, Mexico and Central America. Sida, Bot. Misc. 23:1-300.
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Chiapas		Freytag, G. F. & D. G. Debouck. 2002. Taxonomy, distribution, and ecology of the genus Phaseolus (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) in North America, Mexico and Central America. Sida, Bot. Misc. 23:1-300.
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Ciudad de México		Freytag, G. F. & D. G. Debouck. 2002. Taxonomy, distribution, and ecology of the genus Phaseolus (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) in North America, Mexico and Central America. Sida, Bot. Misc. 23:1-300.
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Guanajuato		Freytag, G. F. & D. G. Debouck. 2002. Taxonomy, distribution, and ecology of the genus Phaseolus (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) in North America, Mexico and Central America. Sida, Bot. Misc. 23:1-300.
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Guerrero		Freytag, G. F. & D. G. Debouck. 2002. Taxonomy, distribution, and ecology of the genus Phaseolus (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) in North America, Mexico and Central America. Sida, Bot. Misc. 23:1-300.
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Hidalgo		Freytag, G. F. & D. G. Debouck. 2002. Taxonomy, distribution, and ecology of the genus Phaseolus (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) in North America, Mexico and Central America. Sida, Bot. Misc. 23:1-300.
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Jalisco		Freytag, G. F. & D. G. Debouck. 2002. Taxonomy, distribution, and ecology of the genus Phaseolus (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) in North America, Mexico and Central America. Sida, Bot. Misc. 23:1-300.
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	México		Freytag, G. F. & D. G. Debouck. 2002. Taxonomy, distribution, and ecology of the genus Phaseolus (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) in North America, Mexico and Central America. Sida, Bot. Misc. 23:1-300.
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Michoacán de Ocampo		Freytag, G. F. & D. G. Debouck. 2002. Taxonomy, distribution, and ecology of the genus Phaseolus (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) in North America, Mexico and Central America. Sida, Bot. Misc. 23:1-300.
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Morelos		Freytag, G. F. & D. G. Debouck. 2002. Taxonomy, distribution, and ecology of the genus Phaseolus (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) in North America, Mexico and Central America. Sida, Bot. Misc. 23:1-300.
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Oaxaca		Freytag, G. F. & D. G. Debouck. 2002. Taxonomy, distribution, and ecology of the genus Phaseolus (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) in North America, Mexico and Central America. Sida, Bot. Misc. 23:1-300.
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Puebla		Freytag, G. F. & D. G. Debouck. 2002. Taxonomy, distribution, and ecology of the genus Phaseolus (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) in North America, Mexico and Central America. Sida, Bot. Misc. 23:1-300.
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Querétaro		Freytag, G. F. & D. G. Debouck. 2002. Taxonomy, distribution, and ecology of the genus Phaseolus (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) in North America, Mexico and Central America. Sida, Bot. Misc. 23:1-300.
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Tlaxcala		Freytag, G. F. & D. G. Debouck. 2002. Taxonomy, distribution, and ecology of the genus Phaseolus (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) in North America, Mexico and Central America. Sida, Bot. Misc. 23:1-300.
1	Native	Northern America	Southern Mexico	Mexico	Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave		Freytag, G. F. & D. G. Debouck. 2002. Taxonomy, distribution, and ecology of the genus Phaseolus (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) in North America, Mexico and Central America. Sida, Bot. Misc. 23:1-300.
1	Native	Southern America	Central America	Costa Rica	Alajuela		Freytag, G. F. & D. G. Debouck. 2002. Taxonomy, distribution, and ecology of the genus Phaseolus (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) in North America, Mexico and Central America. Sida, Bot. Misc. 23:1-300.
1	Native	Southern America	Central America	El Salvador	Chalatenango		Freytag, G. F. & D. G. Debouck. 2002. Taxonomy, distribution, and ecology of the genus Phaseolus (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) in North America, Mexico and Central America. Sida, Bot. Misc. 23:1-300.
1	Native	Southern America	Central America	Guatemala	Chimaltenango		Freytag, G. F. & D. G. Debouck. 2002. Taxonomy, distribution, and ecology of the genus Phaseolus (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) in North America, Mexico and Central America. Sida, Bot. Misc. 23:1-300.
1	Native	Southern America	Central America	Guatemala	Escuintla		Freytag, G. F. & D. G. Debouck. 2002. Taxonomy, distribution, and ecology of the genus Phaseolus (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) in North America, Mexico and Central America. Sida, Bot. Misc. 23:1-300.
1	Native	Southern America	Central America	Guatemala	Guatemala		Freytag, G. F. & D. G. Debouck. 2002. Taxonomy, distribution, and ecology of the genus Phaseolus (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) in North America, Mexico and Central America. Sida, Bot. Misc. 23:1-300.
1	Native	Southern America	Central America	Guatemala	Huehuetenango		Freytag, G. F. & D. G. Debouck. 2002. Taxonomy, distribution, and ecology of the genus Phaseolus (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) in North America, Mexico and Central America. Sida, Bot. Misc. 23:1-300.
1	Native	Southern America	Central America	Guatemala	Jalapa		Freytag, G. F. & D. G. Debouck. 2002. Taxonomy, distribution, and ecology of the genus Phaseolus (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) in North America, Mexico and Central America. Sida, Bot. Misc. 23:1-300.
1	Native	Southern America	Central America	Guatemala	Jutiapa		Freytag, G. F. & D. G. Debouck. 2002. Taxonomy, distribution, and ecology of the genus Phaseolus (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) in North America, Mexico and Central America. Sida, Bot. Misc. 23:1-300.
1	Native	Southern America	Central America	Guatemala	Quetzaltenango		Freytag, G. F. & D. G. Debouck. 2002. Taxonomy, distribution, and ecology of the genus Phaseolus (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) in North America, Mexico and Central America. Sida, Bot. Misc. 23:1-300.
1	Native	Southern America	Central America	Guatemala	Sacatepéquez		Freytag, G. F. & D. G. Debouck. 2002. Taxonomy, distribution, and ecology of the genus Phaseolus (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) in North America, Mexico and Central America. Sida, Bot. Misc. 23:1-300.
1	Native	Southern America	Central America	Guatemala	San Marcos		Freytag, G. F. & D. G. Debouck. 2002. Taxonomy, distribution, and ecology of the genus Phaseolus (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) in North America, Mexico and Central America. Sida, Bot. Misc. 23:1-300.
1	Native	Southern America	Central America	Guatemala	Sololá		Freytag, G. F. & D. G. Debouck. 2002. Taxonomy, distribution, and ecology of the genus Phaseolus (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) in North America, Mexico and Central America. Sida, Bot. Misc. 23:1-300.
1	Native	Southern America	Central America	Guatemala	Suchitepéquez		Freytag, G. F. & D. G. Debouck. 2002. Taxonomy, distribution, and ecology of the genus Phaseolus (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) in North America, Mexico and Central America. Sida, Bot. Misc. 23:1-300.
1	Native	Southern America	Central America	Guatemala	Zacapa		Freytag, G. F. & D. G. Debouck. 2002. Taxonomy, distribution, and ecology of the genus Phaseolus (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) in North America, Mexico and Central America. Sida, Bot. Misc. 23:1-300.
1	Native	Southern America	Central America	Honduras	Francisco Morazán		Freytag, G. F. & D. G. Debouck. 2002. Taxonomy, distribution, and ecology of the genus Phaseolus (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) in North America, Mexico and Central America. Sida, Bot. Misc. 23:1-300.
2	Cultivated					also cult. elsewhere
2	Cultivated	Northern America		Mexico			Freytag, G. F. & D. G. Debouck. 2002. Taxonomy, distribution, and ecology of the genus Phaseolus (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) in North America, Mexico and Central America. Sida, Bot. Misc. 23:1-300.
2	Cultivated	Southern America		South America
2	Cultivated	Southern America	Central America	Central America			Freytag, G. F. & D. G. Debouck. 2002. Taxonomy, distribution, and ecology of the genus Phaseolus (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) in North America, Mexico and Central America. Sida, Bot. Misc. 23:1-300.

Native
Northern America

NORTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Chihuahua, Durango, San Luis Potosí, Sinaloa, Tamaulipas, Zacatecas]
SOUTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Chiapas, Ciudad de México, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, México, Michoacán de Ocampo, Morelos, Oaxaca, Puebla, Querétaro, Tlaxcala, Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave]

Southern America

CENTRAL AMERICA: Costa Rica [Alajuela], Guatemala [Chimaltenango, Escuintla, Guatemala, Huehuetenango, Jalapa, Jutiapa, Quetzaltenango, Sacatepéquez, San Marcos, Sololá, Suchitepéquez, Zacapa], Honduras [Francisco Morazán], El Salvador [Chalatenango]

Cultivated

REGION:

Northern America

REGION: Mexico

Southern America

CENTRAL AMERICA: Central America
REGION: South America

Reference(s)

Freytag, G. F. & D. G. Debouck. 2002. Taxonomy, distribution, and ecology of the genus Phaseolus (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) in North America, Mexico and Central America. Sida, Bot. Misc. 23:1-300.

Economic Uses

Usage	Type	Reference
Environmental	ornamental	Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage
Human food	pulse	Delgado S., A. 1988. Variation, taxonomy, domestication, and germplasm potentialities in Phaseolus coccineus. In: Gepts, P., ed., Genetic resources of Phaseolus beans 441-463.
Human food	pulse	Hackett, C. & J. Carolane. 1982. Edible Horticultural Crops Academic Press.
Human food	vegetable	Delgado S., A. 1988. Variation, taxonomy, domestication, and germplasm potentialities in Phaseolus coccineus. In: Gepts, P., ed., Genetic resources of Phaseolus beans 441-463.
Human food	vegetable	Hackett, C. & J. Carolane. 1982. Edible Horticultural Crops Academic Press.

Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2026. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: https://npgstest.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=300446. Accessed 15 April 2026.