Dolichos trilobus (PROSEA)
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Introduction |
- Family: Leguminosae - Papilionoideae
Synonyms
- Dolichos falcatus Klein ex Willd., not Vigna trilobata (L.) Verdc.
Distribution
Tropical Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
Uses
Green manure and fodder crop, component of grasslands.
Observations
- Perennial, climbing herb, up to 1 m long, with a woody rhizome.
- Leaves trifoliolate; petiole up to 7 cm long; stipules lanceolate, reflexed, up to 4 mm long; leaflets thin, suborbicular, ovate to oblong-ovate or rhomboid, up to 9 cm × 9 cm, glabrous to variously hairy.
- Inflorescence an axillary, 2-3-flowered, raceme.
- Calyx tubular, with 5 short teeth; corolla white or pink, about 1 cm in diameter.
- Pod cylindrical, somewhat curved, 5-9 cm × 6-12 mm, 6-8-seeded.
D. trilobus is found along roads, in grassland and at the margins of thickets and bamboo forest. In Indo-China it occurs on volcanic or limestone-derived soil up to 1100 m altitude.
Selected sources
- Backer, C.A. & Bakhuizen van den Brink Jr., R.C., 1963-1968. Flora of Java. 3 volumes. Wolters-Noordhoff, Groningen, the Netherlands. 647, 641, 761 pp.
- Editorial Committee of the Flora of Taiwan (Editor), 1993-1994. Flora of Taiwan. 2nd Edition. Volumes 1 and 3. Epoch Publishing Company, Taipei, Taiwan. 648, 1084 pp.
- Flora of Tropical East Africa (various editors), 1952-. Crown Agents for Oversea Governments and Administrations, London, United Kingdom & A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
- Flore du Cambodge, du Laos et du Viêt-nam [Flora of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam] (various editors), 1960-. Volume 1-. Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Laboratoire de Phanérogamie, Paris, France.
- Mansfeld, R., 1986. Verzeichnis landwirtschaflicher und gärtnerischer Kulturpflanzen (ohne Zierpflanzen) [Register of cultivated agricultural and horticultural plants (without ornamentals)]. Schultze-Motel, J. et al., editors 2nd edition, 4 volumes. Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany. 1998 pp.
Authors
- M.S.M. Sosef & L.J.G. van der Maesen
