Canavalia gladiata (Jacq.) DC.

  • Authority

    Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

  • Family

    Fabaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Canavalia gladiata (Jacq.) DC.

  • Description

    Species Description - Climbing or trailing, sometimes 10 m. long or longer, glabrous, or when young finely pubescent. Leaflets thin, ovate or oblong-ovate, 5-12 cm. long, acute or short-acuminate at the apex, obtuse at the base; racemes severalmany- flowered, mostly longer than the leaves; pedicels short, thick, 5 nun. long or less-; calyx 1-1.5 cm. long; corolla white to purple, longer than the calyx; pod broadly linear, flat, 1-2.5 dm. long, about 2 cm. wide; seeds oblong.

  • Distribution

    Waste places spontaneous after cultivation, New Providence, and Inagua : native of the East Indies, spontaneous after cultivation in tropical America. A specimen from Nassau referred to this by Hitchcock proves to be Dolichos Lablub L. Horse-bean.

    New Providence Bahamas South America| Inagua Bahamas South America| Asia|