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Canavalia virosa (Roxb.) Wight & Arn. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]

Canavalia virosa (Roxb.) Wight & Arn. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]

Collector Speke; Grant, #628
Collection Date 1860
Resource Type Specimens
Country Uganda
Herbarium K
Identifications Canavalia ensiformis DC. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]; Verified by Baker
Canavalia virosa (Roxb.) Wight & Arn. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE] (stored under name); Verified by Sauer, J.D.,
Canavalia africana Dunn [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]; Verified by Dunn, S.T.
Canavalia gladiata DC. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
Canavalia africana

Canavalia africana

Creator Jos Stevens
Resource Type Photographs
Herbarium JSPC
Identifications Canavalia africana [family FABACEAE]
Canavalia africana

Canavalia africana

Creator Jos Stevens
Resource Type Photographs
Herbarium JSPC
Identifications Canavalia africana [family FABACEAE]
Canavalia africana

Canavalia africana

Creator Jos Stevens
Resource Type Photographs
Herbarium JSPC
Identifications Canavalia africana [family FABACEAE]
Canavalia africana

Canavalia africana

Creator Jos Stevens
Resource Type Photographs
Herbarium JSPC
Identifications Canavalia africana [family FABACEAE]
Canavalia africana

Canavalia africana

Creator Jos Stevens
Resource Type Photographs
Herbarium JSPC
Identifications Canavalia africana [family FABACEAE]
Canavalia africana Dunn

Canavalia africana Dunn

Creator Rice, E. G.
Resource Type Paintings
Herbarium NBG
Identifications Canavalia africana Dunn [family FABACEAE]
Filed as Canavalia africana Dunn [family FABACEAE]

Filed as Canavalia africana Dunn [family FABACEAE]

Collector Burrows, J.E.; Burrows, S.M., #9040
Collection Date 2005-07-23
Resource Type Specimens
Country Mozambique
Herbarium BNRH
Identifications Canavalia africana Dunn [family FABACEAE] (stored under name); Verified by Burrows, J.E.,
Canavalia ensiformis (Linn.) DC. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]

Canavalia ensiformis (Linn.) DC. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]

Entry From Flora of West Tropical Africa, Vol 1, Part 2,
Contributor Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Resource Type Reference Sources
Range A common plant in the tropics of both hemispheres, usually found in cultivation
Information Climbing on fences and trees; flowers rose, mauve or white with a red base.
CANAVALIA africana Dunn [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]

CANAVALIA africana Dunn [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]

Entry From Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by M. Thulin (Acacia by M. Thulin, A. S. Hassan & B. T. Styles) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Contributor Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Resource Type Reference Sources
Range N3; S1, 2 widespread in tropical Africa
Information Perennial climber or trailer, 3–15 m tall. Leaflets ovate, up to 16.5 x 12 cm, usually acuminate to a short tip, sparsely to densely pubescent on both surfaces. Calyx-tube 6–9 mm long; upper lip 4–5 mm long, rounded or emarginate. Corolla mauve or pale purple, 2.7–3 cm long. Pod linear-oblong, 10–20 x 2.5–3 cm, with longitudinal ribs close to the upper margin. Seeds 1.6–2 cm long, brown; hilum 11–15 mm long.
CANAVALIA DC. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]

CANAVALIA DC. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]

Entry From Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by M. Thulin (Acacia by M. Thulin, A. S. Hassan & B. T. Styles) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Contributor Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Resource Type Reference Sources
Range Some 50 species throughout the tropics and subtropics, but mainly American.
Information Climbing robust herbs or woody lianes. Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate. Inflorescences axillary, racemose. Flowers mostly large, rather thick in texture. Calyx 5-lobed, 2-lipped, the lower 3 lobes joined to form a trifid or entire lip, upper pair joined to form a bifid or truncate lip. Standard reflexed. Pod linear-oblong, large, usually with longitudinal ribs close to upper margin.
Canavalia africana Dunn [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]

Canavalia africana Dunn [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]

Entry From Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol 3
Contributor Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Resource Type Reference Sources
Information None
Canavalia africana Dunn [family LEGUMINOSAE]

Canavalia africana Dunn [family LEGUMINOSAE]

Entry From FZ, Vol 3, Part 5, (2001) Author: B. Mackinder, R. Pasquet, R. Polhill and B. Verdcourt
Contributor Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Resource Type Reference Sources
Range tropical Africa
Information Perennial climber, or stems trailing, 3–15 m long. Stems appressed ferruginous pubescent, glabrescent. Leaflets 6–17(23) × 4–12(15) cm, ovate, acuminate to a short blunt tip or elsewhere rarely rounded, sparsely to densely pubescent on both surfaces; petiole 4–13(16) cm long; stipules c. 2 mm long, rather thick. Inflorescences 18–50 cm long, long-pedunculate; pedicels 2 mm long; bracteoles just over 1 mm long, obtuse. Calyx pubescent; tube 6–9 mm long; upper lip 4–5 mm long, rounded or emarginate. Standard mauve with white veins and green towards the base, 2.7–3 × 1.7 cm, oblong; wings and keel mauve, white towards the base. Pods 10–17 × 2.5–3 cm, linear-oblong, each valve with a sutural rib and an extra rib just below this, densely ferruginous pubescent at first, later somewhat glabrescent. Seeds brown or reddish-brown, sometimes marbled with black, 16–20 × 11–20 × 7–11 mm; hilum 11–15 mm long.
Letter from John Henry Holland to Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; from Old Calabar; 7 March 1900; six page letter comprising four images; folios 361-362

Letter from John Henry Holland to Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; from Old Calabar; 7 March 1900; six page letter comprising four images; folios 361-362

Creator Holland, John Henry
Resource Type Letters (Correspondence)
Herbarium K

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