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Phaseolus lunatus

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

Linnaeus

Common Names

• Lima Bean
• Sieva Bean
• Butter Bean
• Civet Bean
• Sewee Bean
• Carolina Bean
• Navy Bean
• Madagascar Bean
• Oca
• Vellore
• Duffin Bean
• Pois du Cap
• Scimitar-podded Kidney Bean
• Sugar Bean
• White Lima Bean
• Potato Lima Bean
• Sieve Bean
• Saba Bean
• Carolina Sewee
• West Indian Lima Bean
• Speckled Lima Bean
• Pallar
• Frijol de Lima
• Ekakipa (Huli-PNG)
• Egagiba (Huli-PNG)
• Mian dou (Pinyin)
• Htawbat-pe (Myanmar)
• Kal-beir-kan (Myanmar)
• Kawl-be (Myanmar)
• Pe-bra (Myanmar)
• Pe-byu-gyi (Myanmar)
• Pe-gya (Myanmar)
• Santagu-pe (Myanmar)
• Tim-sin (Myanmar)
• Tunoran (Myanmar)
• Frijolillo (Costa Rica)

Geographical Habitats

• Argentina
• Barbados
• Belize
• Bolivia
• Bahia
• Pernambuco - Brazil
• Chile
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• French Guiana
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Hispaniola
• Honduras
• Jamaica
• Leeward Islands
• Mexico
• Netherlands Antilles
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Puerto Rico
• Trinidad
• Venezuela
• Virgin islands - USA
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• Gallery forest
• disturbed areas
• shrubland
• coastal thickets

Flowering Times

• Spring - summer Jun
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• Nov-Mar (Nicaragua)

Twining annual or perennial hairy or glabrescent herb. Trifoliolate glabrous or pubescent leaves, mucronate leaflets, central leaflet 100mm x 75mm. Erect or lax axillary 360mm pseudo-racemes with minute setaceous bracts, of 20mm yellow-green or white to lilac or purple flowers with minute bractlets, calyx to 4mm long, standard 10mm long abaxially pilose, wings same length, spirally twisted keel to 10mm long. Oblong, falcate or rescent puberulent or glabrous torulose fruit to 100mm x 25mm.

Further References

• Sturtevant 1919
• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Huxley 1992
• Rubatzky 1997
• Viking 1999
• FONZ
• FOC
• Mobot
• Neotrop
• FB
• JDH
• APDC
• The Plant List 2
• VOPR
• USNH
• Botanicus
• FOTA
• FOPE
• SAFIO
• Standley