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(Last Modified On 9/30/2013)
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(Last Modified On 9/30/2013)
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Genus
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LABLAB Adans.
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Contributor
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W. G. D'Arcy6' & Muriel E. Poston
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PlaceOfPublication
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Fam. P1. 2: 325, 550. 1763.
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Note
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Dolichos lablab L. = Lablab purpureus (L.) Sweet.
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Synonym
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Dolichos sensu auct., non sensu Verdcourt 1971; International Code of Botanical Nomenclature 1978, p. 352. See Westphal, Taxon 24: 189-192. 1975.
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Description
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Herbs usually twining, stems terete, strigulose. Leaves trifoliolate, leaflets rhomboid to ovate, apically acute, basally cuneate, stipellate, the stipules small. Inflorescences axillary racemes, the rachis elongate, the flowers 1-5 arising from tubercles on the rachis, the bracts caducous. Flowers with campanulate calyx, the lobes 5, the upper teeth united to apices; standard orbicular, auriculate, 2 callosites or elongated appendages on the inner face, the wing obovate, the keel falcate; stamens diadelphous, vexillary stamen free, the anthers monomorphic; style curved, flattened, the stigma capitate. Fruits broadly oblong to falcate, laterally compressed, beaked, seeds ovoid, black, hilum oblong with a white aril.
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Habit
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Herbs
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Distribution
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Lablab is endemic to the Old World with cultivated species found in the New World.
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