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Centrosema plumieri
Centrosema plumieri
- Botanic Family
- Leguminosae
- Author
- (Turpin ex Persoon) Bentham
- Cultivated
- C, forage
Common Names
- Chucho de Burro
- Fee-fee (Jamaica)
- Butterfly Pea
- Flor de Conchitas
- Gallinita (Costa Rica)
- Choncho
- Cipo das Feridas
- Cocotte Femme
- Conchitas
- Cunha
- Feijao-bravo
- Fleur Languette
- Frijolillo
- Gallito
- Guarumbe
- Honte
- Jequirana
- Languette
- Mariposa
- Marmelada
- Patito
- Pois Piante
Geographical Habitats
- Belize
- Bolivia
- Amazonas
- Bahia
- Ceará
- Maranhão
- Pará
- Paraiba
- Paraná
- Pernambuco
- Rio de Janeiro
- Roraima
- São Paulo - Brazil
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- French Guiana
- Guatemala
- Guyana
- Hispaniola
- Honduras
- Jamaica
- Leeward Islands
- Mexico
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Puerto Rico
- Suriname
- Trinidad
- Virgin Islands - USA
- Venezuela
- Windward Islands
Natural Habitats
- Forest
- shrubland
- riverside
Flowering Times
- Jan
- Feb
- Mar
- Apr
- May
- Jun
- Jul
- Sep
- Oct
- Nov
- Dec Oct-Jan (Puerto Rico)
Fruiting Times
- Feb
- Apr
- Jul
- Oct Jan-Feb (Puerto Rico)
Glabrate high-climber or twining subshrub with trifoliolate puberulent leaves, almost glabrous leaflets to 150mm long. 63mm solitary or paired scented axillary white flowers with bractlets to 20mm x 15mm, flowers with pink to red-purple central spot & purple-tipped standard to 60mm wide, may be whitish towards edges, wings 30mm x 15mm , white keel 35mm long, calyx teeth to 2mm long. Flattened pale brown to black glabrous fruit 150mm long x 12mm.
Naturalised in some places
Used as herbage & green manure
Further References
- Menninger 1970
- Herklots 1976
- Mobot
- net
- Neotrop
- FB
- APDC
- FOSi
- The Plant List 2
- VOPR
- Botanicus
- ILDIS
- FOPE
- SAFIO
- Standley
- Kew