Canavalia brasiliensis Martius. ex Bentham 1837
Authors/Creators
- 1. Departamento de Geografia - Universidade Federal de Campina Grande: - Campus I, Centro de Humanidades. Unidade Acadêmica de Geografia-UAG, R. Aprígio Veloso, 882, Universitário, Campina Grande, PB, 58428 - 830, Brasil.
- 2. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Conservação - Universidade Estadual da Paraíba - UEPB, Departamento de Biologia, Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Av. das Baraúnas 351, Campus Universitário, Bairro Universitário, Campina Grande, PB, 58429 - 500, Brasil.
- 3. Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Departamento de Biologia, Laboratório de Taxonomia Vegetal (LATAX), Rua Dom Manoel de Medeiros, s / n, Campus Dois Irmãos, 52.171 - 900, Recife, PE, Brasil.
- 4. Departamento de Sistemática e Ecologia- Universidade Federal da Paraíba - Campus I, Centro de Ciências Exatas e da Natureza, Jardim Universitário, Castelo Branco, João Pessoa, PB, 58051 - 900, Brasil. & Author for correspondence: rbotânico @ gmail. com
Description
7. Canavalia brasiliensis Martius. ex Bentham (1837: 71). (Fig. 3i)
Vines, branches tomentulous, inermous. Nectary absent. Stipules lateral, triangular. Leaves imparipinnate, 3– foliolate, leaflets opposite, ovate, venation brochidodromous, translucid punctuation absent. Inflorescence raceme, axillary. Flowers pedicellate, zygomorphic, diplostemonous; calyx gamosepalous, sepals 4, corolla dialypetalous, papilionaceous, rose, petals 5; androecium diadelphous, heterodinamous, anthers longitudinal; ovary superior, sessile, pluriovulate. Fruit legume, sessile, linear, plane, margin straight, epicarp glabrous, brown. Seeds elliptic, plane, coat brown, hilum basal.
Examined material:— BRAZIL. Paraíba: Maturéia, Pico do Jabre, 800 m evel., 02 December 2019, fl. & fr., Aureliana Gomes 3169 (HACAM).
Distribution and ecology:— The species has a neotropical distribution, in Brazil it is present in the five regions, with wide distribution in the Northeast region. It occurs in the domains of the Amazon, Caatinga, Cerrado and Atlantic Rainforest, and is present in coastal areas, dunes and wetlands (Córdula et al. 2008, INCT - Virtual Herbarium of Flora and Fungi).
Phenology: —Registered with flowers and fruits in December.
Taxonomic discussion:— Canavalia brasiliensis can be recognized by the vine habit, lateral stipules, inflorescences in axillary racemes, by the flowers with gamosepalous calyx, 4 sepals, pink papilionaceous corolla with 5 petals and fruits in legumes with winged streaks on their margins.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- HACAM
- Event date
- 2019-12-02
- Verbatim event date
- 2019-12-02
- Scientific name authorship
- Martius. ex Bentham
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Order
- Fabales
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Genus
- Canavalia
- Species
- brasiliensis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Canavalia brasiliensis Bentham, 1837 sec. Gomes, Rodrigues, Moura, Melo, Ribeiro & Queiroz, 2022
References
- Bentham, G. (1837) Centrosema brasilianum (L.) Benth. Commentationes de Leguminosarum Generibus 54.
- Cordula, E., Queiroz, L. P. & Alves, M. (2008) Checklist da flora de Mirandiba, Pernambuco: Leguminosae. Rodriguesia 59: 597 - 602. https: // doi. org / 10.1590 / 2175 - 7860200859313