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Leptospron adenanthum

(G.Mey.) A.Delgado (2011)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Rosids Order: Fabales Family: Fabaceae Genus: Leptospron

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Climbing perennial herbs up to 4 m long, often rooting at the nodes, sparsely pubescent or glabrous.

Stems:

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves compound. Alternate. Leaflets ovate to rhombic, 3–14 cm long, 2–8 cm wide. Apex acuminate. Surfaces sparsely appressed pubescent with stiff hairs. Leaflet margins entire. Veins often conspicuously reticulate. Petiolate. Stipules oblong–ovate, 3–5 mm long, stipules truncate.

Flowers: Flowers 6–12 in nodose racemes 3–30 cm long, peduncles 1–25 cm long. Flowers papilionaceous, bracteoles present; pedicels 2–3 mm long. Calyx sparsely pubescent, upper 2 lobes connate to form a short bifid lip, lower lobes falcate or lanceolate, 3–4 mm long. Calyx bilabiate, 5-lobed, lower lip 3 lobed. Petals Standard petal white, rose, or pale purple, suborbicular, 15–25 mm long, wing petals white to purple externally, paler within, keel white or blue, distinctly beaked, the beak spirally incurved ca. 3 turns. Stamens 10; upper stamen distinct, the other 9 connate into a tube. Ovary superior; stigma lateral.

Fruit: Pods linear–oblong; 75–140 mm long; 7–14 mm wide; glabrous or sparsely pubescent. Seeds 9–15; dark reddish brown; reniform; 5–7 mm long; 4.5–5.5 mm wide; hilum small; white; ca. 1.2 mm long.

Ploidy: 2n = 22

Habitat: Occurring in dry areas.

Elevation Range:

Historical Distribution

Synonyms (37)

Dolichos oleraceus Schumach. & Thonn. (1827)
Phaseolus adenanthus G.Mey. (1818)
Phaseolus adenanthus f. bahiensis Hassl. (1923)
Phaseolus adenanthus f. guaraniticus Hassl. (1923)
Phaseolus adenanthus f. janeirensis Hassl. (1923)
Phaseolus adenanthus f. subtortus Hassl. (1923)
Phaseolus adenanthus f. velutinus Hassl. (1923)
Phaseolus adenanthus var. caeduorum (Mart. ex Benth.) Hassl. (1923)
Phaseolus adenanthus var. genuinus Hassl. (1923)
Phaseolus adenanthus var. latifolius Hassl. (1923)
Phaseolus adenanthus var. radicans (Benth.) Hassl. (1923)
Phaseolus adenanthus var. truxillensis Hassl. (1923)
Phaseolus alatus Roxb. (1832)
Phaseolus amarus Roxb. ex Wight & Arn. (1834)
Phaseolus amoenus Sol. ex G.Forst. (1786)
Phaseolus barbulatus Benth. (1837)
Phaseolus brevipes Benth. (1837)
Phaseolus caeduorum Mart. ex Benth. (1837)
Phaseolus cirrosus Kunth (1821)
Phaseolus cochleatus Bello (1881)
Phaseolus cochleatus var. pallidus Bello (1881)
Phaseolus cochleatus var. violaceus Bello (1881)
Phaseolus cuernavacanus Rose (1905)
Phaseolus cummingii Benth. (1837)
Phaseolus latifolius Benth. (1837)
Phaseolus macfadyenii Steud. (1841)
Phaseolus occidentalis Rose (1905)
Phaseolus radicans Benth. (1837)
Phaseolus rostratus Wall. (1830)
Phaseolus senegalensis Guill. & Perr. (1832)
Phaseolus spiralis Piper (1926)
Phaseolus subtortus Benth. (1837)
Phaseolus surinamensis Miq. (1843)
Phaseolus truxillensis f. velutina Chodat & Hassl. (1904)
Phaseolus truxillensis var. grandiflorus Micheli (1876)
Phaseolus truxillensis var. minor Benth. (1859)
Vigna adenantha (G.Mey.) Maréchal, Mascherpa & Stainier (1978)

Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Statewide Status

Indigenous

Island Status

O'ahu Indigenous
Hawai'i Indigenous

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Notes

  • Description digitized by Ikaika Mendez
  • Description digitized from the Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawaii
  • Pantropical, the occurrence in many Pacific archipelagoes is often thought to be due to human dispersal, but there is no clear evidence that this is so

Bibliography

Name Published In: Amer. J. Bot. 98: 1710 (2011)

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:720 (O, H [as Vigna adenantha]); Delgado-Salinas et al 2011:1710 (COMBNOV, Syn. V. adenantha, KEY)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Scientific Name Authorship Locality Habitat Basis of Record Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Leptospron adenanthum (G.Mey.) A.Delgado PRESERVED_SPECIMEN m. j. remy 674 Hawaii US 1851-08-08
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