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| | Observations on a Noteworthy Wild Lima Bean, Phaseolus lunatus L., from Colombia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | One of us (OT) disclosed in February 1992 a new population of wild lima bean in Guateque, Boyacá, N-E of Bogotá, at 1,600 masl (73.31W, 5.00N), morphologically close to the wild forms from Ecuador (namely the larger flowers with dark purple standard and violet wings). |
 | | A third possibility would be that the two groups of electrophoretic patterns are indeed present in the Andean wild lima beans as expression of their natural variability, in contrast with the small-seeded wild lima beans predominantly distributed in Mesoamerica which display only 'Mesoamerican' patterns so far. |
 | | Third, P. rosei, morphologically close to the Andean wild lima bean of Ecuador and northern Peru (both with epigeal germination), is likely identical to it and thus a synonym for the wild Andean genepool of P. lunatus. |
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