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Canavalia grandiflora

Botanic Family

Fabaceae

Author

Bentham

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Brazil
• Guyana
• Peru
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Forests
• riversides
• seasonally inundated areas
• cut-over forest
• secondary forest

Flowering Times

• May
• Jun
• Jul (Bolivia) Apr
• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Sep (Brazil) Nov (Guyana)

Fruiting Times

• Apr
• Jul (Bolivia)

Twining glabrous herbaceous vine wurg woody stems. Trifoliolate leaves with coriaceous leaflets to 100mm long. 10-20 flowered thyrses with bracteoles. Pale purple flowers, calyx to 17mm long with lower lip to 4mm long, standard petals to 40mm long, whitish with violets spots or bands, twisted wing petals to 50mm long, keel petals longer than wings.

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• NYBG
• The Plant List 2
• USNH