Phaseolus lathyroides L.
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Fabaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Herbaceous, erect, simple or somewhat branched, silky pubescent or glabrate, 3-6 dm. high. Stipules narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, 1.5 em. long or less; petioles slender; leaflets various, membranous, ovate to lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, 2-6 cm. long, acute, obtuse or acuminate at the apex, acute or obtuse at the base; racemes elongated, several-many-flowered, 1-3 dm. long in fruit; pedicels very short; calyx 4-5 mm. long, its upper teeth ovate, the lower lanceolate, acuminate; corolla red or purple; standard 12-15 mm. long; pods narrowly linear, straight or a little curved, reflexed-spreading, 7-12 cm. long, about 3 mm. thick.
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Distribution
Waste places and moist soils in open places, Andros. New Providence, Acklin's, East Caicos and Inagua : West Indies ; continental tropical America ; Old World tropics. Wild Bush Bean.
South Andros Bahamas South America| New Providence Bahamas South America| Acklins Bahamas South America| Turks and Caicos Islands South America| West Indies|