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Lablab purpureus (hyacinthbean; Hyacinth Bean; bonavist-bean; Lablab; Minni; Toba; Tatta-payaru; Tapirucusu; Pois Nourrice; Pois Gerville; Pois Gervais; Pois Antaque; Natoba; Motchai; Lablab Bean; Kos-ata-dambala; Kiri-dambala; Haricot; Frijol Caballero; Carmelita; Bonavist Bean; Bonavist; Black Bean; Banner Bean; Antaque)

Synonyms: Dolichos benghalensis; Dolichos purpureus (homotypic); Lablab niger bengalensis; Lablab nigra
Language: French; Sinhala

Wikipedia Abstract

Lablab purpureus is a species of bean in the family Fabaceae. It is native to Africa and it is cultivated throughout the tropics for food. English language common names include hyacinthbean, lablab-bean bonavist bean/pea, dolichos bean, seim bean, lablab bean, Egyptian kidney bean, Indian bean, bataw and Australian pea. It is the only species in the monotypic genus Lablab.
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Infraspecies

Lablab purpureus bengalensis
Lablab purpureus purpureus (Lablab)
Lablab purpureus uncinatus
Lablab purpureus var. purpureus
Lablab purpureus var. rhomboideus

Attributes

Edible [1]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [1]  Hermaphrodite
Hazards [1]  The raw seed is poisonous;
Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Pollinators [1]  Insects, Lepidoptera
Structure [1]  Vine
Usage [1]  Plants are fairly fast growing and the bacteria on the roots enrich the soil with nitrogen. This makes them a good green manure crop, though they are only really suitable for climates warmer than Britain;
Height [1]  6.56 feet (2 m)
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Archipelago de Colon Biosphere Reserve 34336011 Galapagos Islands, Ecuador  
Norfolk Island National Park II 1723 Australian external territories, Australia  

Predators

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 3Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 4Review of the Neotropical species of the family Pterophoridae, part I: Ochyroticinae, Deuterocopinae, Pterophorinae (Platyptiliini, Exelastini, Oxyptilini) (Lepidoptera), C. Gielis, Zool. Med. Leiden 80 (2006)
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0