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Vigna lasiocarpa
Vigna lasiocarpa
- Botanic Family
- Leguminosae
- Author
- (Martius ex Bentham) Verdcourt
Common Names
Geographical Habitats
- Argentina
- Belize
- Bolivia
- Amazonas
- Paraná
- Rio Grande do Sul
- Roraima - Brazil
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- El Salvador
- French Guiana
- Guyana
- Honduras
- SW. Mexico
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Suriname
- Trinidad
- Venezuela
Natural Habitats
- Forests
- creekside shrubland
- dry riverbeds
- riverside
Flowering Times
- Jan
- Feb
- Apr
- May
- Sep
- Oct
- Nov
- Dec
Fruiting Times
Large climbing or prostrate twining densely yellowish or rusty hairy perennial herb, branchlets & petioles hairy. Sometimes lobed leaves hairy both surfaces or sometimes glabrous above, leaflets to 70mm x 50mm. Racemes or umbels of lemon-yellow or white flowers to 25mm long with bracts & bractlets, pubescent calyx to 5mm long, bilobed standard to 3mm long, keel forming one complete coil. Hairy black or brown fruit to 90mm x 7mm.
Further References
- Menninger 1970
- Mobot
- Neotrop
- FB
- APDC
- The Plant List 2
- Botanicus
- ILDIS
- FOPE
- Standley