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Canavalia bonariensis

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Name

Identification
Canavalia paranensis Hook. & Arn. [family LEGUMINOSAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Canavalia bonariensis Lindl. [family LEGUMINOSAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Canavalia cryptodon
  • Canavalia monodon
  • Canavalia bonariensis
  • Canavalia paranensis

Flora

Entry for CANAVALIA Bonariensis Lindl. [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 Bonariensis Lindl. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], Bot. Reg. t. 1199;—Benth.! Fl. Braz. XXIV. p. 178.
CANAVALIA monodon E. Mey. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], ! Comm. p. 149.
CANAVALIA cryptodon Meisn. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], ! Lond. Journ. 2, p. 96.
Information
leaflets oval-oblong, obtusely-acuminate, coriaceous; upper lip of the calyx bifid, lower very minute, subentire; carina incurved, erostrate, longer than the wings. Leaflets rigid, 2–3 inches long, 1–1 1/2 wide, reticulated. Peduncles short, few-flowered; the short-stalked flowers rising from fleshy tubercles. Calyx 3/4 inch long.
Range
A native also of extra-tropical S. America.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Mouth of the Omtendo, Drege! Natal, Gueinzius! Krauss! (Herb. Hk., Sd., D.)

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