MULTILINGUAL MULTISCRIPT PLANT NAME DATABASE

Sorting Canavalia names

Species on this page ( A = names approved by most authorities, s = approved as synonyms) :

 

Canavalia ensiformis (L.) DC.

SYNONYM(S) : Canavalia gladiata DC. var. ensiformis DC., Dolichos ensiformis L. , Canavalia ensiformis (DC.) Makino, Canavalia ensiformis (L.) DC. var. leucosperma Voigt

ARABIC : Fâsûlyâ seyfîyah.

CHINESE : Yang dao dou, Da dao dou (medicinal name), Dao dou, Bai dao dou.

DANISH : Jackbønne.

DUTCH : Kara bendo, Zwaardboon.

ENGLISH : Jack bean, Sword bean, Giant stock-bean, Wonder bean.

ESTONIAN : Mõõkjas kanavaalia.

FRENCH : Haricot sabre, Pois sabre, Haricot sabre à grain blanc, Fève Jacques, Haricot de Madagascar.

GERMAN: Jackbohne, Madagaskarbohne, Schwertbohne.

JAPANESE :  タチナタマメ  Tachi nata mame,   Shiro nata mame , Tsurunachi nata mame.

MALAY : Kacang parang.

PORTUGUESE : Feijão espada.

SPANISH : Frijol de bibijagua (Cuba), Frijol de sable, Frijol espada, Judía sable, Haba de burro, Haba blanca (Mexico) , Haba criolla, Haba de caballo (Mexico).

VIETNAMESE : .

Photograph of seed at the Illustrated Legume Database - Japan.

Canavalia gladiata (Jacq.) DC.

SYNONYM(S) : Canavalia ensiformis (L.) DC. var. gladiata (Jacq.) Kuntze, Canavalia ensiformis DC. var. gladiata Makino, Dolichos gladiatus Jacq., Canavalia ensiformis auct. non (L.) DC.

ARABIC : Fûl hindî.

CHINESE : Dao dou, Dao dou (medicinal name).

DANISH : Sabelbønne, Svaerdbønne.

DUTCH : Zwaardboon.

ENGLISH : Sword bean, Jack bean, Scimitar bean, Jamaican horse bean.

FRENCH : Haricot sabre, Pois sabre, Pois sabre de la Jamaïque, Pois de l'Inde, Dolique sabre.

GERMAN: Schwertbohne.

JAPANESE : Nata mame, Nata mame, なたまめ   Nata mame, 鉈豆  Nata mame.

KHMER : Tioeuhs.

LAOTIAN : Khùa, 'khao 'khièo.

MALAY : Kacang parang (Kachang parang), Kacang polong, Kacang parasman (Indonesia), Kara pedang (?), Koas bakol (?).

PORTUGUESE : Feijão espada.

SPANISH : Haba de burro, Poroto sable, Carabanz.

TAGALOG : Habas.

THAI : Thua phraa (Thua phra).

VIETNAMESE : .

VISAYAN : Magtambokau.

Photograph of seed (bicolor) at the Illustrated Legume Database - Japan.

Canavalia gladiata (Jacq.) DC. ( Red-seeded Group)

SYNONYM(S) : Canavalia gladiata DC. var. gladiata

ENGLISH : Red-seeded sword bean.

FRENCH : Pois sabre à grain rouge.

Photograph of seed at the Illustrated Legume Database - Japan.
Photographs of purple-flowered type, flower & pods in Japan.

Canavalia gladiata (Jacq.) DC. (White-seeded Group)

SYNONYM(S) : Canavalia gladiata DC. var. alba (Makino) Hisauchi

ENGLISH : White-seeded sword bean.

FRENCH : Pois sabre à grain blanc.

JAPANESE : Shiro nata mame.

Photograph of seed, flower, pod and seedling at the Illustrated Legume Database -Japan.
Photographs of white-flowered type, flower & pods in Japan.

Canavalia microcarpa (DC.) Piper

SYNONYM(S) : Canavalia cathartica Du Petit-Thouars, Canavalia turgida Grah. ex Gray

CHINESE : Xiao dao dou, Xiao dao dou (medicinal name).

VIETNAMESE : -.

Canavalia plagiosperma Piper

ENGLISH : Giant bean, Oblique-seeded jackbean.

GERMAN :  Riesenbohne.

SPANISH : Poroto gigante.

 

Canavalia rosea (Sw.) DC.

SYNONYM(S) :   Canavalia obtusifolia DC.,  Canavalia maritima Thouars ,  Dolichos maritimus Aubl., Dolichos obtusifolius Lam., Dolichos roseus Sw. 

ENGLISH :  Bay bean (USA), Beach bean (USA).




Photoghraph of flower by M. Fagg.
Photographs of seed, pods and leaves at Seabean.com

REFERENCES
General Bibliography

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REFERENCES
Complementary / Specific

 

EURODICAUTOM, On-line Technical Dictionary in 12 languages provided by the European Commission < http://eurodic.echo.lu/cgi-bin/edicbin/EuroDicWWW.pl?page=expert >

Hô Pham-Hoang, 1991, An Illustrated Flora of Vietnam, Set 1, Vol. 2, pp. 1184 - 1187. (Most text in Vietnamese).

I.P.G.R.D. Illustrated Legume Genetic Resources Database part of the Illustrated Plant Genetic Resources Database in Japan. < http://www.gene.affrc.go.jp/plant/image/legume.html >

Legume Web, March 2000, International Legume Database & Information Service (ILDIS).

Mabberley D.J. 1997, The Plant-Book : a Portable Dictionary of the Vascular Plants, 2d Edition, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K.

USDA, ARS, 2000, National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN). [Online Database] National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Available: www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxdump.pl?canavalia (15 March 2000).

Wiersema J. H. & León B. 1999, World Economic Plants : a Standard Reference. CRC Press LLC.

Xie Zongwa & Yu Youqin (Editors), 1996, Materia Medica, Chinese Terminology, Vol. 1, Renminweisheng Publishing House Beijing, China. (Latin with authority names and Chinese-simplified, text in Chinese).

 

Contributors to this page (Personal communication) : Orarat Mongkolporn.

 

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