3909.000 Lablab Adans.

Mackinder, B. et al. (2001) Papilionoideae Flora Zambesiaca 3(5)

Description of the genus

Climbing herb. Stipules mostly reflexed and persistent; stipels lanceolate. Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate; Inflorescences axillary, falsely racemose. Calyx 2-lipped, upper lip entire or emarginate, lower 3-lobed. Standard round, usually reflexed, auriculate with 2 calli or appendages on the inner face. Style distinctly thickened, laterally flattened, hairy on the internal face. Pods oblong-falcate to linear-oblong, tipped by the persistent style. Seeds ovoid, flattened, with a long arillate hilum.

Worldwide: 1 variable species originating in W Africa and widely cultivated throughout the tropics

Zimbabwe: 1 cultivated taxon.

No image of a cultivated species but there is an image of a native or naturalised species

Links to cultivated taxa    View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus

SpeciesContent
purpureus (L.) Sweet subsp. uncinatus Verdc. var. uncinatus Description, Image

Other sources of information about Lablab:

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Flora of Botswana: Lablab
Flora of Caprivi: Lablab
Flora of Malawi: Lablab
Flora of Mozambique: Lablab
Flora of Zambia: Lablab
Flora of Zimbabwe: Lablab

External websites:

African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Lablab
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Lablab
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Lablab
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Lablab
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Lablab
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Lablab
JSTOR Plant Science: Lablab
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Lablab
Plants of the World Online: Lablab
Tropicos: Lablab
Wikipedia: Lablab

Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2002-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Zimbabwe: Cultivated plants: genus page: Lablab.
https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/cult/genus.php?genus_id=779, retrieved 4 December 2024

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