- 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 IPNI) : 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)
- Tebi (Manipuri)
- Tumbekonti, Shambi, Sambe, Shampe (Kannada)
- Makhan shim (Bengali)
- Mahasimbi, Mahasimbi, Asisimbi (Sanskrit)
- Habit : Climbing shrub
- Habitat : Tropical dry deciduous forest, Terai forest
- Comments / notes : Cultivated. Wild along the river valley Angul district
- Flower, Fruit : April-October
- 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
- Maharashtra : Raigad (Mhasala)
- Odisha : Angul district, Puri district, Sambalpur district
- Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- West Bengal : Hooghly, Howrah, Murshidabad
- Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
- Punjab : Punjab
- Native : Old world tropics
- World Distribution : Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, East Himalaya, Hainan, India, Japan, Laos, Myanmar, Panamá, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, West Himalaya
- 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)
- Uniyal B.P., Sharma J.R., Choudhery U., Singh D.K. (2007). Flowering Plants of Uttarakhand: A Checklist. Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh: 103
- GRIERSON A.J.C. & LONG D.G. (1983). FLORA OF BHUTAN INCLUDING A RECORD OF PLANTS FROM SIKKIM Vol. 1: Part 3. ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, EDINBURGH: 690
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Canavalia gladiata. Downloaded on 14 December 2024.
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