| Name | Phaseolus coccineus subsp. formosus (Kunth) Marechal, Mascherpa & Stainier |
| Authorship | (Kunth) Marechal, Mascherpa & Stainier |
| Rank | Subspecies |
| Placed in | Phaseolus coccineus Linnaeus |
| Citation | 1978 Taxon 27(2–3): 199 |
| Holdings | 1 Specimen held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Phaseolus coccineus subsp. formosus (Kunth) Marechal, Mascherpa & Stainier |
| Identification made in | 1985 (1) |