| Pigeon pea | |
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| Botanical illustration of the morphological details of a C. cajan specimen. | |
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| Botanical image depicting the foliage characteristics and differing pod and flower phenotypes. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Subfamily: | Faboideae |
| Genus: | Cajanus |
| Species: | C. cajan
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| Binomial name | |
| Cajanus cajan (L.) Huth
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The pigeon pea[1] (Cajanus cajan) or toor dal is a perennial legume from the family Fabaceae native to the Eastern Hemisphere.[2] The pigeon pea is widely cultivated in tropical and semitropical regions around the world, being commonly consumed in South Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.[3]: 5941
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- ^ Upadhyaya, Hari D.; Sharma, Shivali; Reddy, K.N.; Saxena, Rachit; Varshney, Rajeev K.; Gowda, C.L. Laxmipathi (2013). "Pigeonpea" (PDF). Genetic and Genomic Resources of Grain Legume Improvement. pp. 181–202. doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-397935-3.00008-6. ISBN 978-0-12-397935-3.
- ^ Kingwell-Banham, Eleanor; Fuller, Dorian Q. (2014). "Pigeon Pea: Origins and Development". Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. pp. 5941–5944. doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_2320. ISBN 978-1-4419-0426-3.