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Dolichos lablab

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Identification
Dolichos lablab L. [family FABACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Lablab purpureus
  • Dolichos
  • Dolichos sp.
  • Lablab vulgaris
  • Dolichos crenatifructus
  • Dolichos indet.
  • Dolichos not on sheet
  • Dolichos lablab
  • Lablab uncinatus
Common name
  • wáákén baìbààyíí = bean of the pagans; a term of contempt (JMD; ZOG) wáákén dànfámíí = fence bean (JMD; ZOG) (NIGERIA, HAUSA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • lablab; lablab bean; hyacinth bean (American); bonavist bean; Indian butter bean; Egyptian kidney bean; tutuli bean (Tamale, Ghana, Ll. Williams)., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • nalvo (Williams) (THE GAMBIA, MANDING-MANDINKA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • guangono abrua = the bean for enjoyment (A.Chev; FB) (IVORY COAST, ANYI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3
  • lablab; dolique d’Egypte., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3

Flora

Entry for DOLICHOS Lablab Linn. [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
DOLICHOS Lablab Linn. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], ;—Benth.! Fl. Brazil. xxiv. p. 198, tab. 51, f. 2.
Lablab vulgaris DC. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], Prod. 2, p. 401. E. Mey. Comm. p. 140.
Information
voluble; leaflets broadly ovate or rhomboid, acute, glabrous, membranous; peduncles elongate, interruptedly racemose, many-flowered; calyx bibracteolate, its lower lobes subacute; carina angularly incurved, rostrate; style laterally compressed, subspathulate, equally pubescent; legume tapering at base, broadly scimetar-shaped or subfalcate, the thickened sutures crispulate. Plant glabrous or nearly so, extensively climbing. Petioles 2–3 inches long. Leaflets 1 1/2–2 inches long, 2 inches broad, thin, full green, finely veiny. Stipellæ subulate. Peduncles 10–12 inches long; the rachis flexuous, and subdistantly nodulose, emitting 2 or more flowers from each node. Bracteoles suborbicular, striate, equalling the calyx-tube. Corolla purple or white, the vexillum reflexed, and the long, rostrate carina upturned like that of a Crotalaria. Legume curled along the margin.
Range
A common plant throughout tropical Africa and Asia, from whence it has passedinto South America.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Port Natal, Drege, Gueinzius, &c. (Herb. Hk., Bth., Sd., D.)

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