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Centrosema macrocarpum

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

Bentham

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• French Guiana
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Honduras
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Grasses
• shrubs
• tropical forest
• disturbed areas

Flowering Times

• Feb
• Mar
• May
• Jul
• Aug
• Sep
• Nov
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• Jun
• Jul
• Sep

Twiner with glabrate stems. Glabrous leaflets to 100mm x 50mm. Inflroescence with bracteoles, white to lavender flowers marked purple in centre to 40mm long, calyx teeth to 15mm long. Glabrous seed pods to 200mm long

Beans & leaves edible, fodder.

Further References

• Sturtevant 1919
• Mobot
• NYBG
• Neotrop
• Mansfeld
• The Plant List 2
• ILDIS
• FOPE