• Family : FABACEAE
  (Pea Or Bean Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : PALASH FAMILY (पलाश फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : LEGUMINOSAE
• Subfamily : Faboideae
• Synonym(s) : Dolichos virosus "Roxb., p.p."; Dolichos virosus Roxb., p.p.; Canavalia stocksii Dalzell & A.Gibson; Canavalia ensiformis var. turgida Baker
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Canavalia cathartica Thouars
• Common name : Maunaloa
• Vernacular name : Cheruvalanga (Malayalam)
• Habit : Climber
• Habitat : Moist deciduous forests and banks of canals
• Comments / notes : Frequent along banks of rivers, canals and backwaters.
• Flower, Fruit : June-December
• Collector(s) Name : C.J.Saldanha & N.S.Ravindra; C.J.Saldanha & K.P.Sreenath
• Collection Nos : KFP 1325, KFP 12226, KFP 4901
• Collection Locality : Kollur-Mangalore (Dakshina Kannada); Surathkal beach
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Mysuru district, Tumakuru district
  • Kerala : Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Alappuzha district, Pathanamthitta district
  • Tamil Nadu : Tiruvallur district, Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, Tirunelveli district, Villipuram district
• World Distribution : Widely cultivated, also runs wild
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Flora of Karnataka, Saldanha, 1984; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1.
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Canavalia cathartica. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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