Genus Phaseolus L.


Summary
Genus number:
9217
Last updated:
1 March 2004
Family:
Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae)
Subfamily:
Faboideae
Tribe:
Phaseoleae
Subtribe:
Phaseolinae
Common name(s):

bean
Accession count:

22339 (18016  active, 13459  available) in National Plant Germplasm System
Comments:
all accepted species are in GRIN


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References:
  1. Delgado-Salinas, A. et al. 1999. Phylogenetic analysis of the cultivated and wild species of Phaseolus (Fabaceae). Syst. Bot. 24:438-460. www.aspt.net/systematic-botany
  2. Delgado-Salinas, A. et al. 2006. Phylogeny of the genus Phaseolus (Leguminosae): a recent diversification in an ancient landscape. Syst. Bot. 31:779-791. www.aspt.net/systematic-botany
  3. Delgado-Salinas, A. et al. 2011. Vigna (Leguminosae) sensu lato: the names and identities of the American segregate genera. Amer. J. Bot. 98:1694-1715.
  4. 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.
  5. Gepts, P. 1992. Genetic resources of Phaseolus.
  6. Lewis, G. et al., eds. 2005. Legumes of the world 428.
  7. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture Note: food crop, bean genepool, excluding Phaseolus polyanthus
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/taxonomygenus?id=9217. Accessed 10 May 2026.