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Lablab purpureus
Lablab purpureus
- Botanic Family
- Leguminosae
- Author
- (Linnaeus) Sweet
Common Names
- Hyacinth Bean
- Dolichos Bean
- Bonavist
- Lubia Bean (Africa)
- Seim Bean
- Indian Bean
- Egyptian Bean
- Lablab Bean
- Sudanese Bean
- Lablab
- Bonavista Bean
- Bonavist Bean
- Rinchhai (Chepang)
- Hiunde Simi (Nepali)
- Simi (Nepali)
- Khocha Simi (Newari)
- Papapa or Pi (Hawaiian)
- Chapparadavare or Sim (India)
- Bian dou (Pinyin)
- Toba (Fiji)
- Dralawa (Fiji)
- Banner Bean
- Kachang Kara (Singapore)
- Karkaras (Singapore)
- Chicharos
- Frijol Caballero
- Habas de Caballo
- Bona Wiss
- Sweet Pea
- Bepi or By-lap or Nwai-pe or Pe-letma or Pe-maung-makaw or Pe-pazum or Pe-seik-gyo or Pe-wa-kyeik or Pe-wet-swe or To-tat (Myanmar)
- Dâu vàn or Dâu bach biên or Dok pep (Vietnam)
- Mertanye (New Hebrides)
- Antaque
- Dolico
- Dolikhos Lablab
- Dolikhos Obyknovennyi
- Dolique Lablab
- Faselbohne
- Fasole Turceasca
- Feijao Cutelinho
- Giatzyntovye Boby
- Haricot D'Egypte
- Helmbohne
- Ho-dhambala
- Kiri Dambala
- Kos-ata-dha
- Shem (Bangladesh)
- Egyptian Kidney Bean
- Australian Pea
- Shim
- Ushi
- Urushi
- Soi (Chittagong)
- Bean
- Country Bean
- Tonga bean
- Papaya bean
- Poor Man Bean (Australia)
- Fiwi Bean
- Kikuyu Bean
- Bounavista Pea (Trinidad)
- Butter Bean (Caribbean)
- Gallinita (Mexico)
- Ataque (France)
- Fuji-mame (Japan)
- Gerenge (Ethiopia)
- Helmbohne (Germany)
- Gueshrangaig (Egypt)
- Louria (Cyprus). Chikkadikai (Kannada)
- Avari
- Mochai (Tamil)
- Anumulu
- Chikkudu (Telugu)
- Mochakotta (Malayalam)
- Sem
- Ballar (Hindi)
- Val (Gujarati)
Geographical Habitats
- Benin
- Cape Verde Islands
- Nigeria
- Senegal
- Sierra Leone
- Togo
Natural Habitats
- Montane areas
- shrubland
- moist areas.
Flowering Times
Fruiting Times
Twining or creeping slightly woody glabrous or pubescent perennial herb with purplish subglabrous stems. Trifoliolate pubescent or glabrous mucronate leaves ending in a bristle, slightly villous above, glabrous beneath, central leaflet to 150mm long. Erect axillary 250mm long lax pseudo-racemes to 230mm long, of fragrant 25mm long white, cream, blue, crimson, pink or purple or cream tinged mauve flower, standard, keel & wings 20mm long, calyx to 7mm long slightly villous on outside with deciduous bracteoles at base. 180mm falcate maroon glabrescent pods hooked at apex with persistent style
Further References
- Menninger 1970
- Bailey 1976
- van der Spuy 1976
- Beckett 1990
- Huxley 1992
- Rubatzky 1997
- Manandhar 2002
- Mobot
- FOH
- RHS A-Z
- Bodkin
- FOC
- JDH
- APDC
- Mansfeld
- FOSi
- The Plant List 2
- VOPR
- USNH
- Botanicus
- F Indochine
- FOTA
- JAA
- ILDIS
- Tanzamin Ara