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Encyclopedia > Lablab

Hyacinth bean
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Tribe: Phaseoleae
Genus: Lablab
Species: purpureus
Binomial name
Lablab purpureus
L. Sweet

Hyacinth bean or Lablab (Lablab purpureus) is a cultivated species from the family Fabaceae. Hyacinth bean is widespread throughout the tropics, especially in Africa as a food crop, it is also grown as forage and as an ornamental species. Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Divisions Green algae Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular embryophytes Hepatophyta - liverworts Anthocerophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) Seedless vascular plants Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongues Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering plants... Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants (also angiosperms or Magnoliophyta) are one of the major groups of modern plants, comprising those that produce seeds in specialized reproductive organs called flowers, where the ovulary or carpel is enclosed. ... Orders see text Dicotyledons or dicots are flowering plants whose seed contains two embryonic leaves or cotyledons. ... Families Fabaceae (legumes) Quillajaceae Polygalaceae (milkwort family) Surianaceae The Fabales are an order of flowering plants, included in the rosid group of dicotyledons. ... Subfamilies Faboideae Caesalpinioideae Mimosoideae References GRIN-CA 2002-09-01 The Family Fabaceae (also as Family Leguminosae) is a grouping of plants in the Order Fabales, and one of the largest families of flowering plants with 650 genera and over 18,000 species. ... Genera Abrus Acosmium Adenocarpus Adenodolichos Adesmia Aenictophyton Aeschynomene Afgekia Aganope Airyantha Aldina Alexa Alhagi Alistilus Almaleea Alysicarpus Amburana Amicia Ammodendron Ammopiptanthus Amorpha Amphicarpaea Amphimas Amphithalea Anagyris Anarthrophyllum Andira Angylocalyx Antheroporum Anthyllis Antopetitia Aotus Aphyllodium Apios Apoplanesia Apurimacia Arachis Argyrocytisus Argyrolobium Arthroclianthus Aspalathus Astracantha Astragalus Ateleia Austrodolichos Austrosteenisia Baphia Baphiopsis Baptisia... In biology, binomial nomenclature is a standard convention used for naming species. ... A painting of Carolus Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as Carl von Linné  listen, and who wrote under the Latinized name Carolus Linnaeus (May 23, 1707 – January 10, 1778), was a Swedish scientist who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of taxonomy. ... Subfamilies Faboideae Caesalpinioideae Mimosoideae References GRIN-CA 2002-09-01 The Family Fabaceae (also as Family Leguminosae) is a grouping of plants in the Order Fabales, and one of the largest families of flowering plants with 650 genera and over 18,000 species. ... Africa is the largest of the three great southward projections from the main mass of the Earths surface. ... Forage is the herbaceous plant material (mainly grasses and legumes) eaten by grazing animals. ...


Hyancith bean grows as a vine, producing purple flowers and scarlet coloured seed pods. Pods and seeds may be toxic due to high concentrations of cyanogenic glucosides, and must be well cooked before they are eaten. The leaves and stems are also used to make hay. A SeeD is a term given to mercenaries trained and employed by Balamb Garden in the Final Fantasy VIII video game. ... A cyanide is any chemical compound that contains the group C≡N, with the carbon atom triple bonded to the nitrogen atom. ... A glucoside is a glycoside that is derived from glucose. ... Alternate meanings: Hay, New South Wales, Hay-on-Wye Bales of hay on a farm near Ames, Iowa Hay is dried grass (and pasture flowers) used to feed domestic animals at places or times where there is not enough (fresh) grass or when fresh grass by itself is too rich...


Reference

FAO. Lablab purpureus (L.) Sweet (http://www.fao.org/ag/AGP/AGPC/doc/GBASE/data/Pf000047.HTM)


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