• Family : FABACEAE
  (Pea Or Bean Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : PALASH FAMILY (पलाश फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : LEGUMINOSAE
• Subfamily : Faboideae
• Basionym : Dolichos gladiatus Jacq.
• Synonym(s) : Canavalia ensiformis "sensu Baker, p.p."
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Canavalia gladiata (Jacq.)DC.
• Common name : Horse bean, Jack bean, Sword bean, Broad bean, Patagonian bean
• Vernacular name : Barasem, Safed Kadsumbal, Kadusambal (Hindi); Valavari, Thambattai, Segapu thampattai (Tamil); Thamba, Vellatamma, Tumbettan Kaya (Telugu); Mohukanko, Maharada (Oria); Valaringha, Valpayar, Valanga, Valamara, Vettukatthipayar (Malayalam)
• Habit : Climbing shrub
• Habitat : Deciduous forests
• Comments / notes : Cultivated. Wild along the river valley Angul district
• Flower, Fruit : July-April
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy, Arun Singh & K. Sankara Rao; Raja K. Swamy & Noel Sebastian
• Collection Date : 26/11/2015; 26-11-2018
• Collection Nos : HJCB-0408; HJCB-1854
• Collection Locality : Palamaneru forest, Chittoor district (AP); Munnar, Idukki district, Kerala
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Kurnool district, East Godavari district, West Godavari district, Anantapur district, Guntur district, Srikakulam district
  • Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Davanagare district, Kalaburagi (Gulbarga) district, Kolar district, Raichur district, Shivamogga district, Tumakuru district, Udupi district
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kozhikode district, Palakkad district, Kottayam district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district, Idukki district
  • Odisha : Angul district, Puri district, Sambalpur district
• Native : Old world tropics
• World Distribution : Pantropical
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2001 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 2; J.L.Ellis, 1987- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 1; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1; R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District; R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District; H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1; Herbarium specimen from Munnar, Idukki district, Kerala (not scanned)
• 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 gladiata. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

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