View source for Lablab ← Lablab You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reason: The action you have requested is limited to users in the group: Users. You can view and copy the source of this page. {{Treatment/ID |accepted_name=Lablab |accepted_authority=Adanson |publications={{Treatment/Publication |title=Fam. Pl. |place=2: 325. 1763 |year=1763 }} |special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status |code=I |label=Introduced }} |basionyms= |synonyms= |hierarchy=Fabaceae;Fabaceae subfam. Faboideae;Lablab |hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Fabaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Fabaceae subfam. Faboideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Lablab]]</div></div> |etymology=Arabic lablab, perhaps mercy, ivy, marsh, or dull rattle, probably alluding to nutritional value of beans, habit, habitat, or sound of seeds in dry pods |volume=Volume 11 |mention_page= |treatment_page= }}<!-- --><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, unarmed, base woody; taproot well developed. <b>Stems</b> climbing or suberect, young growth densely strigose, hairs not uncinate, glabrescent. <b>Leaves</b> alternate, odd-pinnate, pulvinate; stipules present, sessile, not produced below point of insertion; petiolate; leaflets 3, stipels present, blade margins entire, surfaces glabrous or strigose. <b>Inflorescences</b> 5–10[–30]-flowered, axillary, pseudoracemes, rachis with swollen nodes; bracts and bracteoles present, bracteoles subpersistent, elliptic-rounded. <b>Pedicels</b> shorter than calyx tube. <b>Flowers</b> papilionaceous; calyx campanulate, lobes 5; corolla red-purple or white, 12–15 mm, glabrous, banner with 2 prominent appendages at base, wings relatively long, enclosing keel, keel narrow, beaked; stamens 10, diadelphous; anthers basifixed and dorsifixed, alternate, dehiscing laterally, pollen tricolporate; ovary straight, nectary disc at base, style laterally flattened with brush on internal face, stigma terminal. <b>Fruits</b> legumes, sessile, dark purple, compressed, usually oblong-falcate, 5–10 cm, tipped by persistent style, dehiscent, ventral sutures verrucose, glabrescent. <b>Seeds</b> 2–5, white or reddish brown to black, oblong, 9–13 mm; with long, lateral hilum covered by conspicuous linear, white rim aril, extending more than 1/2 seed length. <b>x</b> = 11, 12.</span><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |distribution=e Africa;introduced widely. |introduced=true |discussion=<p>Species 1.</p><!-- --><p>Lablab cultivars are grown widely throughout the tropics and some temperate regions of the world.</p> |tables= |references= }}<!-- --><!-- -->{{#Taxon: name=Lablab |author=Alfonso Delgado-Salinas |authority=Adanson |rank=genus |parent rank=subfamily |synonyms= |basionyms= |family=Fabaceae |distribution=e Africa;introduced widely. |introduced=true |reference=None |publication title=Fam. Pl. |publication year=1763 |special status=Introduced |source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/master/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V11/V11_862.xml |subfamily=Fabaceae subfam. Faboideae |genus=Lablab }}<!-- -->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Fabaceae subfam. Faboideae]] Templates used on this page: Template:Fabaceae (view source) Template:Treatment/AuthorLink (view source) Template:Treatment/Body (view source) Template:Treatment/Body/Maps (view source) Template:Treatment/ID (view source) Template:Treatment/ID/Special status (view source) Template:Treatment/Publication (view source) Return to Lablab.