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Canavalia obtusifolia

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Name

Identification
Canavalia obtusifolia (Lam.) DC. [family FABACEAE ]
Related name
  • Canavalia obtusifolia
Common name
  • seaside sword bean; wild seashore sword bean., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • ñav basa (JB) ñav diuam (JLT; JB) ñav fasah (JB) (SENEGAL, SERER), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • fãnta (JB) tagalé (JB) (SENEGAL, FULA-PULAAR (Senegal)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • (Guinea-Bissau) fanta (JDES; D’Orey & Liberato) tágalê (JDES; D’ (GUINEA-BISSAU, FULA-PULAAR), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • nhabo (JDES; D’Orey & Liberato) (GUINEA-BISSAU, BIDYOGO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • pois bord de mer (Berhaut); pois maritime (Berhaut)., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3

Flora

Entry for CANAVALIA obtusifolia DC. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 2, page 1, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Names
CANAVALIA obtusifolia DC. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], Prod. 2, 404;—Benth.! l.c. p. 178, tab. 48.
Dolichos emarginatus Jacq. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], Schoenb. t. 221.
CANAVALIA emarginata Don. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], E. Mey. Comm. p. 148.
Information
creeping, glabrous, or when young, silky-pubescent; leaflets obovate or orbicular, very obtuse; upper lip of the calyx bilobed, much shorter than the tube, lower 3- lobed; carina erostrate. Common near the sea, throughout the tropics, often cultivated. Leaflets 2–4 inches long, 2–3 broad, drying pale. Peduncles a foot long, floriferous near the summit, thinly silky, the subsessile flowers springing from fleshy tubercles.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Caffraria, between Omtendo and Omsamculo, Drege! Natal, Gueinzius! (Herb. Hk., Sd., D.)

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