Lablab purpureus

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Lablab purpureus (L.) Sweet

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plant of Lablab purpureus
Order Fabales
Family Leguminosae
Genus Lablab

2n = 22, 24

Origin : East Africa

wild and cultivated

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Description

flowers
pods

Popular names

  • English: hyacinth bean, bonavist bean, Egyptian bean
  • French: lablab, dolique d'Egypte ; antaque (Réunion) ; pois boucoussou, pois bourcoussou (Antilles)
  • German: Helmbohne
  • Spanish: judía de Egipto, lablab
  • Portuguese: feijão cutelinho, labe labe
  • Italian: fagiolo d'Egitto, lablab
  • Arabic: lūbiya, lablab miṣrī
  • Hindi: sem
  • Chinese: biǎn dòu ; pien-tou
  • Japanese: fiji-mame

Classification

Lablab purpureus (L.) Sweet (1827)

The genus name Lablab is conserved against Dolichos, with Lablab purpureus as a type.

synonyms:

  • Dolichos lablab L. (1753)
  • D. purpureus L. (1763)
  • Lablab niger Medik. (1787)

The species is very variable, and three groups are distinguished:

Lablab Group

synonym: D. lablab subsp. lablab

Long axis of the seed perpendicular to the pod suture when mature. Seeds filling only one third to three-quarters of the pod breadth. Pod dehiscent or not.

Called papri or popetti in Hindi, such lablabs have short pods eaten for their seeds.

Ensiformis Group

synonym: D. lablab subsp. ensiformis (Thunb.) Rivals (1953)

Long axis of the seed oblique with the pod suture when mature. Pod indehiscent.

Called sem or seim, such lablabs have fleshy pods used in curries.

seeds showing the long white aril

Bengalensis Group

synonym: D. lablab subsp. bengalensis (Jacq.) Rivals (1953)

Long axis of the seed parallel to the pod suture when mature. Pod indehiscent.

Called val or valor, such lablabs have straight long pods rectilignes, much like French beans.

Dolique Lablab (Vilmorin-Andrieux, 1904)

Cultivars

History

Originating from East Africa, where the wild form, subsp. uncinatus Verdc. (1970), is to be found, the species has spread to India before our era, and is now cultivated in all East Asia and Oceania.

Blanco, Flora de Filipinas (1880-1883)

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