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|accepted_name=Canavalia
|accepted_authority=Adanson
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fam. Pl.
|place=2: 325, 531. 1763
|year=1763
|other_info_on_pub=(as Canavali), name and orthography conserved
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Wenderothia
|authority=Schlechtendal
|rank=genus
}}
|hierarchy=Fabaceae;Fabaceae subfam. Faboideae;Canavalia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Fabaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Fabaceae subfam. Faboideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Canavalia]]</div></div>
|etymology=Konkani (southwest India) cana, corruption of rana, wild, forest, and val, bean, or vaal, sword, probably alluding to form and/or taste of pods
|volume=Volume 11
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs </b>or vines, annual or perennial, woody or herbaceous, unarmed. <b>Stems</b> twining, trailing, prostrate, or erect, glabrous, glabrate, strigulose, or glabrescent. <b>Leaves</b> alternate, odd-pinnate; stipules present, caducous, deltate and small or obsolete; petiolate; stipels deciduous; leaflets 3, blade margins entire, surfaces strigose, glabrate, or glabrous. <b>Inflorescences</b> 8–50-flowered, axillary, panicles; bracts present, caducous; axis retrorsely pubescent basally, antrorsely pubescent apically; bracteoles present, calycine. <b>Flowers</b> papilionaceous; calyx campanulate, 2-lipped, lobes 5, abaxial lip with 3 short lobes, adaxial lip with 2 massive connate lobes; corolla lavender, pink-purple, purple and white (bicolored), white, blue-violet, or reddish purple [pink-white], 20–35 mm, glabrous; stamens 10, monadelphous; anthers basifixed, dehiscing apically, relatively small. <b>Fruits</b> legumes, stipitate, straight or ± falcate, ± compressed, sometimes turgid, oblong or narrowly oblong [linear], 6–40 cm, well exceeding calyx, ventral margin 3–5-ribbed, adaxial (upper) margins 3-costate, dehiscent, strigose to glabrate. <b>Seeds</b> (1–)4–15, oblong to elliptic in silhouette; hilum lateral. <b>x</b> = 11.</span><!--

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|distribution=s;c United States;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Asia;Africa;Atlantic Islands;Pacific Islands;Australia.
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 60 (4 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>Some Canavalia species are grown for cover crops, green manures, forage, and human consumption (G. P. Lewis et al. 2005). Coastal species produce drift-seeds.</p>
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|references=
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==Key==
<div class="treatment-key-group">
  
{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaflet blades suborbiculate, elliptic, or oblong, apices emarginate or obtuse; legumes turgid to moderately compressed; seeds marbled, red to brown; hilum to 1/2 length of seed; coastal habitats.
|[[Canavalia rosea|Canavalia rosea]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaflet blades ovate to ovate-elliptic, apices obtuse, acute, subacute, subacuminate, or acuminate; legumes slightly compressed; seeds usually not marbled (sometimes darkly so in C. brasiliensis), olive, brown, red, red-brown, white, or off-white; hilum shorter to longer than 1/2 length of seed; disturbed areas.
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Leaflet apices acuminate; calyces with central lobe of abaxial lip equaling obtuse lateral lobes; seeds usually red to red-brown, rarely white.
|[[Canavalia gladiata|Canavalia gladiata]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Leaflet apices obtuse, subacute, or emarginate; calyces with central lobe of abaxial lip exceeding ± acute lateral lobes; seeds white, off-white, olive, brown, or red.
|[[#key-0-3| > 3]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Stems twining or prostrate; petiolule hairs 0.5–0.9 mm; legumes 6–20 × 2–3 cm; seeds olive, brown, or red.
|[[Canavalia brasiliensis|Canavalia brasiliensis]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Stems twining or erect; petiolule hairs 0.3 mm; legumes 15–35 × 3–3.5 cm; seeds white or off-white.
|[[Canavalia ensiformis|Canavalia ensiformis]]
|}
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Canavalia
|author=Alexander Krings
|authority=Adanson
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subfamily
|synonyms=Wenderothia
|basionyms=
|family=Fabaceae
|distribution=s;c United States;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Asia;Africa;Atlantic Islands;Pacific Islands;Australia.
|reference=None
|publication title=Fam. Pl.
|publication year=1763
|special status=
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/master/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V11/V11_779.xml
|subfamily=Fabaceae subfam. Faboideae
|genus=Canavalia
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