Taxon: Canavalia cathartica Thouars

• the 9 historical accession(s) associated with this name.
• Check PlantSearch database of Botanic Gardens Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.

Economic importance:

• View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
• View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya [s.e.]; Tanzania [e.]
  Western Indian Ocean: Seychelles
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Eastern Asia: Japan - Ryukyu Islands; Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Bangladesh; India [coastal]; Sri Lanka
  Indo-China: Cambodia [s.]; Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam
  Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia; Papua New Guinea; Philippines
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - Queensland [n.]
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
  Northwestern Pacific: Guam; Marshall Islands; Micronesia; Palau
  South-Central Pacific: Cook Islands; French Polynesia - Society Islands
  Southwestern Pacific: Fiji; New Caledonia; Samoa; Solomon Islands; Tonga; Vanuatu

References:

• Aubréville, A. et al., eds. 1960–. Flore du Cambodge du Laos et du Viet-Nam.
• Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
• Huang, S. F. & T. C. Huang. 1987. Taxonomic treatment of the Papilionoideae (Leguminosae) of Taiwan. Taiwania 32:11-117.
• Sauer, J. 1964. Revision of Canavalia. Brittonia 16:158.
• Smith, A. C. 1979–1991. Flora vitiensis nova.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
• Verdcourt, B. 1979. A manual of New Guinea legumes.
• Wagner, W. L. et al. 1990. Manual of the flowering plants of Hawai'i.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Canavalia cathartica.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Canavalia cathartica.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Canavalia cathartica.

Synonyms:

• (=) Canavalia microcarpa (DC.) Piper
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Canavalia turgida Graham ex A. Gray
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Canavalia virosa (Roxb.) Wight & Arn.
  (previously associated with 8 accessions)
• (=) Dolichos virosus Roxb.
  
• (=) Lablab microcarpus DC.
  

Check other web resources for Canavalia cathartica Thouars:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• ILDIS: World Database of Legumes
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images or nodulation data:

• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• GRIN nodulation data

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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