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Canavalia mattogrossensis

Botanic Family

Fabaceae

Author

(Barbosa Rodrigues) Malme

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Brazil
• Paraguay
• Peru

Natural Habitats

• Forests
• riverside

Flowering Times

• Mar
• May
• Jun
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug

Twining herbaceous woody vine with rusty pubescent stems. Trifoliolate leaves, puberulent leaflets to 80mm long. Flowers white with purple veins on lower petal, calyx to 10mm long marked with purple, purplish flowers to 30mm long, curved beaked keel. Rusty villous pods to 100mm x 12mm.

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• NYBG
• The Plant List 2
• ILDIS
• FOPE
• Kew