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Phaseolus occurs as genus in the family Fabaceae of about fifty plant species, all native to the Americas.
At least quaternary of the mintage use at times been domesticated since pre-Columbian times for their beans. Virtually all large among these is the common bean, P. vulgaris, which now is cultivated worldwide inside tropical, subtropic & moderate climates.
Last classifications positioned in that genus the total of more swell known mintage that use okay, been flushed to genus Vigna, sometimes necessitating the vary of species name. For instance, older literature refers to the mung bean as Phaseolus aureus, wherewhen more modern sources classify it as Vigna radiata.
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