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Canavalia nitida

Botanic Family

Fabaceae

Author

(Cavanilles) Piper

Common Names

• Mato Colorado
• Haba de Burro de Jardin

Geographical Habitats

• Bahamas
• Cayman Islands
• Cuba
• Hispaniola
• Leeward Islands
• Puebla - Mexico
• Puerto Rico
• Virgin Islands - USA

Natural Habitats

• Woodland
• shrubland
• forest
• montane forest
• primary forest

Flowering Times

• Aug-Feb (Puerto Rico)
• Dec (Bahamas)

Fruiting Times

• Aug-Feb (Puerto Rico)
• Jul (Bahamas)

Herbaceous woody high-climbing twiner with hairy or glabrescent stems. Trifoliolate coriaceous mucronulate glabrous leaves, thin leaflets to 100mm x 55mm. 17mm rose-purple flowers erect in axillary pendant pseudo-racemes to 230mm long with bractlets, bilobed calyx 11mm long, purple standard 25mm long, pale yellow in centre, pink keel & wings to 15mm long. Brown woody glabrous legume to 250mm x 50mm.

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Mobot
• NYBG
• The Plant List 2
• Fedde
• VOPR
• ILDIS
• SAFIO
• Plantae Wrightianae