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Phaseolus acutifolius A. Gray Phaseolus coccineus L. Phaseolus dumosus Macfad. Phaseolus filiformis Benth. Phaseolus glabellus Piper Phaseolus leptostachyus Benth. Phaseolus lunatus L. Phaseolus maculatus Scheele Phaseolus ritensis M. E. Jones Phaseolus salicifolius Piper Phaseolus vulgaris L. Leguminosae/Fabaceae

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Ethnobotany of the Mountain Regions of Mexico

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Abstract

Throughout Mexico, most of the approximately 60 species of Phaseolus are found in a wide range of ecological environments and from an altitude at sea level to 3000 m high. In addition, the wild progenitors of the five domesticated species, common bean (P. vulgaris), lima, comba or ib (P. lunatus), ayocote or botil (P. coccineus), tepari or escumite (P. acutifolius), and acalete or gordo (P. dumosus), also occur within the territorial limits of the country. This chapter aims to give a brief morphological description, nomenclature synonyms, distribution, ecology, and local uses and names, some in native languages of 11 species of wild Phaseolus species that are introduced below.

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Acknowledgments

We thank the Madrean Discovery Expedition Program of Greater Good Charities, and Susan D. Carnahan, Jillian Cowles, Elizabeth Makings, Ana Lilia Reina-Guerrero, and Thomas R. Van Devender; also M. R. García Peña, Carlos Gómez Hinostrosa, and Alfredo Wong from the (Instituto de Biología, UNAM) for providing photographs.

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  1. Departamento de Botánica, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, CDMX, México

    Alfonso Delgado-Salinas & Leticia Torres-Colín

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  1. IIES, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México IIES, Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico

    Alejandro Casas

  2. Center for Research in Biodiversity, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de More, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico

    José Juan Blancas Vázquez

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Delgado-Salinas, A., Torres-Colín, L. (2022). Phaseolus acutifolius A. Gray Phaseolus coccineus L. Phaseolus dumosus Macfad. Phaseolus filiformis Benth. Phaseolus glabellus Piper Phaseolus leptostachyus Benth. Phaseolus lunatus L. Phaseolus maculatus Scheele Phaseolus ritensis M. E. Jones Phaseolus salicifolius Piper Phaseolus vulgaris L. Leguminosae/Fabaceae. In: Casas, A., Blancas Vázquez, J.J. (eds) Ethnobotany of the Mountain Regions of Mexico. Ethnobotany of Mountain Regions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77089-5_45-1

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