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Name

Identification
Canavalia africana Dunn [family FABACEAE ]
Related name
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Entry for CANAVALIA africana Dunn [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
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]
Names
CANAVALIA africana Dunn [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], (1922).
CANAVALIA virosa [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], sensu auctt., non (Roxb.) Wight & Arn. sensu stricto.
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.
Range
N3; S1, 2 widespread in tropical Africa
Altitude range
c. 100–400 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Kazmi & al. 5621; Thulin & Bashir Mohamed 7090.
Distribution (external)
Socotra
S Arabia
India
Notes
Diir-daguer (Som.). For the nomenclature of this species, see Verdcourt in Kew Bull. 42: 658 (1987).

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