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Canavalia brasiliensis

Botanic Family

Fabaceae

Author

Martius ex Bentham

Common Names

• Babricou Bean (Barbados)

Geographical Habitats

• NE. Argentina
• Barbados
• Belize
• Bolivia
• Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• French Guiana
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Hispaniola
• Honduras
• Leeward Island
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Suriname
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Venezuela
• Venezuelan Antilles
• Windward islands

Natural Habitats

• Secondary forest
• riverside
• coastal
• forest edge
• thickets

Flowering Times

• Oct (Tobago) Apr (Argentina) Jul (Brazil) Jan
• Oct
• Nov (Colombia) Dec (Costa Rica)

Fruiting Times

• Jun (Bolivia)

Large herbaceous twining vine to 4m. Sparsely strigillose leaflets to 180mm x 95mm. Inflorescence to 220mm long, 5-10 flowered thyrses, sparsely strigillose green calyx to 15mm long, pink or purplish flowers to 25mm long with falcate keel, pale purple standard to 25mm x 17mm, dark purple with yellow stripe in centre, claw 5mm long, purple keel & wings, wings to 25mm x 5mm, keel to 7mm x 5mm, sweet scented flowers. Sparsely strigillose curved pod to 150mm x 50mm, brown with white puberulence, valve with 3 crests.

Further References

• Mobot
• NYBG
• Neotrop
• The Plant List 2
• ILDIS
• FOPE
• SAFIO
• Standley
• USNH
• Kew