Entada phaseoloides

Entada phaseoloides[3][4][5][6][7] commonly named the "box bean" or "St. Thomas’ bean", first described by Linnaeus, with its current name described by Merrill. E. phaseoloides is a liana in the pea family:[8][9] called Gugo, Balugo or Tamayan in the Philippines and Bàm bàm in Viet Nam. No subspecies are listed in the Catalogue of Life.[8]

Entada phaseoloides
E. phaseoloides pod specimen in the Muséum de Toulouse
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
(unranked):
Angiosperms
(unranked):
Eudicots
(unranked):
Rosids
Order:
Fabales
Family:
Fabaceae
Subfamily:
Caesalpinioideae[1]
(unranked):
Mimosoid clade[1]
Genus:
Entada
Binomial name
Entada phaseoloides
Synonyms

Acacia scandens (L.) Willd.
Entada formosana Kaneh.
Entada koshunensis Hayata & Kaneh.
Entada rumphii Scheff.
Entada scandens (L.) "Benth., p.p."
Entada tonkinensis Gagnep.
Faba marina-major Rumph.
Gigalobium scandens (L.) Hitchc.
Lens phaseoloides L.
Mimosa blancoana Litv.
Pusaetha scandens (L.) Kuntze
Strepsilobus scandens (L.) Raf. [2]

Description

Entada phaseoloides is a large liana that climbs high into the lowland tropical forest canopy and found in lowland coastal forests of Africa, Australia, Asia and the Western Pacific. The lianas are often (but not exclusively) associated with waterways and seeds are widely dispersed by oceanic currents. Two subspecies have been described:[10]

  • E. phaseoloides subsp. phaseoloides
  • E. phaseoloides subsp. tonkinensis

The leaf structure is bi-pinnate compound divided into one to two pairs of leaflets. Leaflets are somewhat elliptical, between 25 and 100 mm (0.98 and 3.94 in) long and 10 to 60 mm (0.39 to 2.36 in) wide. Flowers are arranged in a raceme with green to red coloured sepals and green / cream petals that are between 2–3.5 mm (0.079–0.138 in) long. The characteristic pods can grow very large, up to 2 m (6 ft 7 in) long and 130 mm (5.1 in) wide. Each pod contains between 10 and 20 reddish brown seeds that are lens-shaped and about 40 to 60 mm (1.6 to 2.4 in) in diameter.

References
  1. The Legume Phylogeny Working Group (LPWG). (2017). "A new subfamily classification of the Leguminosae based on a taxonomically comprehensive phylogeny". Taxon. 66 (1): 44–77. doi:10.12705/661.3.
  2. http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/ild-39042
  3. Verdcourt,B., 1979 A Manual of New Guinea Legumes. Office of Forests, Lae, PNG
  4. Ohwi,J., 1965 Flora of Japan. Washington: Smithsonian Institution
  5. Walker,E.H., 1976 Flora of Okinawa and S.Ryukyu islands. Washing.Smithson.Inst
  6. Wu,T.L., 1988 Mimososoideae. In: Fl.Reip.Pop.Sinicae, 39 (Leguminosae 1)
  7. Nielsen,I., 1981 Leg-Mim. In:Flore du Cambodge, du Laos et Viet-nam,Vol 19.A.
  8. Roskov Y.; Kunze T.; Orrell T.; Abucay L.; Paglinawan L.; Culham A.; Bailly N.; Kirk P.; Bourgoin T.; Baillargeon G.; Decock W.; De Wever A. (2014). Didžiulis V. (ed.). "Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2014 Annual Checklist". Species 2000: Reading, UK. Retrieved 26 May 2014.
  9. ILDIS World Database of Legumes
  10. USDA National Plant Database (last edited 2001)
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