Family: Fabaceae
Synonym: Canavalia ferruginea Piper
Vernacular
name: Kattu-valamara, Kattu-vettukathipayar
Habit:
Climbing Shrub
Habitat:
Along stream banks in the plains and shola forests
Flowering
& Fruiting: August-April
Distribution:
India, Yemen, Africa, Hawaiian Islands
Key
identification features: Climbing shrubs. Leaves trifoliolate;
leaflets broadly ovate, acute or shortly acuminate. Flowers in axillary
racemes. Calyx hispid without, bilipped, tube c. 8 mm long, upper lip 2-lobed,
lower 3-toothed. Petals lilac, keels, curved. Staminal tube glabrous, anthers
uniform. Pods flat, apiculate, pubescent.
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