Taxon: Centrosema molle Mart. ex Benth.

• replaces C. pubescens of most authors (auct. pl.), recently (1996) typified on element equal to C. schiedeana (Schltr.) R. J. Williams & R. J. Clements, if the former name is not conserved with a new type
• since the conservation proposal to accomplish this has now been withdrawn, proving to be unpopular with some agricultural scientists, the name C. molle must now be taken up for centro
• ascribed to "Mart. MSS." by Bentham

Common names:

• butterfly-pea   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• centro   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• spurred butterfly-pea   (Source: Hortscience 28:675. [as C. pubescens]) – English
  
• ju ban dou   (Source: F ChinaEng [as C. pubescens]) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• fleur-languette   (Source: Dict Rehm [as C. pubescens]) – French
  
• pois bâtard   (Source: Dict Rehm [as C. pubescens]) – French
  
• sentro   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 4:86. [as C. pubescens]) – Indonesian
  
• frijol cuchillo   (Source: Hortscience 28:675. [as C. pubescens]) – Spanish
  
• gallinita   (Source: Hortscience 28:675. [as C. pubescens]) – Spanish
  
• patillo   (Source: Hortscience 28:675. [as C. pubescens]) – Spanish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide HortScience 28:675. 1993, as C. pubescens)
  
• Environmental: soil improver   (fide Pl Res SEAs 4:86-87. 1992, as C. pubescens)
  
• Animal food: forage   (fide Pl Res SEAs 4:86-87. 1992, as C. pubescens)
  

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Campeche, Chiapas, Colima, Guerrero, Jalisco, Mexico, Michoacan, Nayarit, Tabasco, Veracruz
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Antigua and Barbuda; Cuba; Dominican Republic; Grenada; Guadeloupe; Haiti; Jamaica; Martinique; Puerto Rico; St. Lucia; St. Vincent and Grenadines; Trinidad and Tobago
  Mesoamerica: Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Nicaragua; Panama
  Northern South America: French Guiana; Guyana; Suriname; Venezuela
  Brazil: Brazil - Acre, Alagoas, Amazonas, Bahia, Ceara, Goias, Maranhao, Mato Grosso, Minas Gerais, Para, Paraiba, Parana, Pernambuco, Piaui, Rio de Janeiro, Rondonia, Sao Paulo
  Western South America: Bolivia; Colombia; Ecuador - El Oro, Esmeraldas, Guayas, Loja, Los Rios; Peru - Amazonas, Cajamarca, Lima, San Martin, Ucayali

• AFRICA
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
  Western Indian Ocean: Mauritius; Reunion
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India; Sri Lanka
  Malesia: Papua New Guinea
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - Queensland
• PACIFIC
  Northwestern Pacific: Guam; Micronesia
  Southwestern Pacific: Fiji
• occasionally naturalized elsewhere in tropics

• AFRICA
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Cameroon; Equatorial Guinea; Gabon; Sao Tome and Principe; Zaire
  West Tropical Africa: Cote D'Ivoire; Ghana; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Liberia; Nigeria; Sierra Leone; Togo
  South Tropical Africa: Angola; Mozambique; Zambia; Zimbabwe
  Western Indian Ocean: Mauritius; Reunion
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Eastern Asia: Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India; Sri Lanka
  Malesia: Brunei; Christmas Island; Indonesia; Malaysia; Papua New Guinea; Singapore
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - Northern Territory, Queensland
• PACIFIC
  Northwestern Pacific: Guam; Micronesia
  Southwestern Pacific: Fiji; Solomon Islands
• widely cultivated in tropics

References:

• Fantz, P. R. 1996. Taxonomic notes on the Centrosema pubescens Bentham complex in Central America (Leguminosae: Phaseoleae: Clitoriinae). Sida 17:321–332.
• Funk, V. et al. 2007. Checklist of the plants of the Guiana Shield (Venezuela: Amazonas, Bolivar, Delta Amacuro; Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana). Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 55:1-584.
• Hammel, B. E. et al., eds. 2003–. Manual de plantas de Costa Rica.
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6. [= C. pubescens Benth.].
• Hokche, O. et al. 2008. Nuevo catálogo de la flora vascular de Venezola.
• Kirkbride, J. H., Jr. & J. H. Wiersema. 2005. (1681) Proposal to conserve the name Centrosema pubescens (Fabaceae) with a conserved type. Taxon 54:209–210.
• Kumar, S & P. V. Sane. 2003. Legumes of South Asia: a checklist.
• Stevens, W. D. et al., eds. 2001. Flora de Nicaragua. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 85(1-3).
• Steyermark, J. A. et al., eds. 1995–. Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana.
• Zhu, X. Y. et al. 2007. Legumes of China: a checklist. [= C. pubescens Benth.].

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Centrosema molle.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Centrosema molle.

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Synonyms:

• (=) Centrosema pubescens auct. pl.
  (previously associated with 77 accessions)

Check other web resources for Centrosema molle Mart. ex Benth.:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• On-line Flora of Zimbabwe
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ILDIS: World Database of Legumes
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• 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:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• GRIN nodulation data

More:

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• 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.

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