Phaseolus
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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
Description - Vines, rarely erect herbs, with pinnately 3-foliolate leaves, and axillary racemose flowers. Calyx 5-toothed or 5-lobed, or the 2 upper teeth more or less united. Standard orbicular, recurved, spreading or somewhat contorted; wings mainly obovate; keel spirally coiled, linear or obovoid. Stamens diadelphous (9 and 1). Style longitudinally bearded; stigma oblique or lateral; ovary sessile or nearly so; ovules oo. Pod various, 2-valved, several-seeded, tipped with the persistent style. Seeds mostly with rounded ends. Raehis thickened at the bases of the pedicels. [Ancient name of the Kidney bean.] About 170 species, of warm and temperate regions. Type species: Phascolus vulgaris L.