🗒 Synonyms
| synonym | Macroptilium lathyroides var. angustifolium Stehlé |
| synonym | Macroptilium lathyroides var. bustarretianum Stehlé & Quentin |
| synonym | Macroptilium lathyroides var. lathyroides |
| synonym | Macroptilium lathyroides var. semierectum (L.) Urb. |
| synonym | Macroptilium lathyroides var. semierectum (L.)Urb. |
| synonym | Phaseolus crotalarioides Benth. |
| synonym | Phaseolus hastaefolius Benth. |
| synonym | Phaseolus hastifolius Benth. |
| synonym | Phaseolus lathyroides f. chacoensis Hassl. |
| synonym | Phaseolus lathyroides f. hirsutus Hassl. |
| synonym | Phaseolus lathyroides f. repandus Hassl. |
| synonym | Phaseolus lathyroides L. |
| synonym | Phaseolus lathyroides var. semierectus (L.) Hassl. |
| synonym | Phaseolus maritimus Benth. |
| synonym | Phaseolus psoraleoides Wight & Arn. |
| synonym | Phaseolus semierectus L. |
| synonym | Phaseolus semierectus var. angustifolius Benth. |
| synonym | Phaseolus semierectus var. nanus Benth. |
| synonym | Phaseolus semierectus var. subhastatus Benth. |
| synonym | Phaseolus strictus Braun & Bouché |
🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
Description
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Global description
Macroptilium lathyroides is an annual or perennial plant, erect or climbing, reaching up to 150 cm high. The taproot is white or brown. Stem is rounded, full, and glabrous. Stipules are present, and striated. The compound leaves are tri-foliate, alternate spiral, stalked; with lance-shaped leaflets, more than 2 cm long / wide, glabrous on the upper side and a few scattered hairs on the underside. The margin is entire, with acute apex and base, pinnately veined. The hermaphrodite flowers are solitary or grouped in terminal or lateral cluster, with 5 red to crimson rose petals. The fruit is a flat pod.
First leaves
First leaves are compound, alternate, trifoliate with elliptical leaflets twice as long as wide.
General habit
Erect herbaceous plant or occasionally climber, reaching up to 1.5 m in length.
Underground system
The plant has a taproot system.
Stem
Stem is cylindrical, solid, and glabrous to finely hairy.
Leaf
The leaves are compound alternate trifoliate. They are carried by a finely pubescent petiole. At the base, there are two striated stipules. The terminal leaflet is far from the lateral leaflets. The three leaflets are held by a very short pedicel, with two very small stipels at its base. The lamina of the leaflets are narrowly elliptic or narrowly oval. The margin is entire, the apex acute and the base wedged. The upper side is glabrous and the lower face has a few scattered hairs.
Inflorescence
The inflorescence is a long terminal cluster.
Flower
Papilionaceous flower is pink or crimson. Calyx is tubular with 5 tines of which one is larger.
Fruit
The fruit is a long linear pod, cylindrical, and perpendicular to the axis of the inflorescence. It ends in a tapered beak. It is covered with a short pubescence.
Macroptilium lathyroides is an annual or perennial plant, erect or climbing, reaching up to 150 cm high. The taproot is white or brown. Stem is rounded, full, and glabrous. Stipules are present, and striated. The compound leaves are tri-foliate, alternate spiral, stalked; with lance-shaped leaflets, more than 2 cm long / wide, glabrous on the upper side and a few scattered hairs on the underside. The margin is entire, with acute apex and base, pinnately veined. The hermaphrodite flowers are solitary or grouped in terminal or lateral cluster, with 5 red to crimson rose petals. The fruit is a flat pod.
First leaves
First leaves are compound, alternate, trifoliate with elliptical leaflets twice as long as wide.
General habit
Erect herbaceous plant or occasionally climber, reaching up to 1.5 m in length.
Underground system
The plant has a taproot system.
Stem
Stem is cylindrical, solid, and glabrous to finely hairy.
Leaf
The leaves are compound alternate trifoliate. They are carried by a finely pubescent petiole. At the base, there are two striated stipules. The terminal leaflet is far from the lateral leaflets. The three leaflets are held by a very short pedicel, with two very small stipels at its base. The lamina of the leaflets are narrowly elliptic or narrowly oval. The margin is entire, the apex acute and the base wedged. The upper side is glabrous and the lower face has a few scattered hairs.
Inflorescence
The inflorescence is a long terminal cluster.
Flower
Papilionaceous flower is pink or crimson. Calyx is tubular with 5 tines of which one is larger.
Fruit
The fruit is a long linear pod, cylindrical, and perpendicular to the axis of the inflorescence. It ends in a tapered beak. It is covered with a short pubescence.
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
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📚 Natural History
Life Cycle
Life cycle
Annual
Reproduction
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Macroptilium lathyroides is an annual or perennial species. It is propagated by seeds.
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Morphology
Growth form
Erected
Liana
Liana climbing structure
Liana without tendril
Leaf arrangement
Alternate
Leaf type
Compound
Type of prefoliation
Leaf ratio medium
Broad leaves
Compound leaf type
Trifoliate leaf
Latex
Without latex
Stem section
Round
Root type
Taproot
Hollow or solid stem
Solid stem
Stipule type
Lanceolate stipule
Stipule dissected or laciniate
Leaf attachment type
with petiole
Fruit type
Pod
Pod type
Cylindrical pod in section
Lamina base
rounded
acute
Lamina margin
entire
Lamina apex
attenuate
acute
Upperface pilosity
Glabrous
Lowerface pilosity
Less hairy
Lowerface hair type
Long
Lamina section
flat
Lamina Veination
in arc
Flower color
Red flowers
Inflorescence type
Raceme with alternate sessile flowers
Stem pilosity
Less hairy
Stem hair type
Hairs reflected
Life form
Broadleaf plant
Climber
Look Alikes
Macroptilium lathyroides can be confused with M. atropurpureum which is distinguished by its rather dragging characteristic, wide oval or rhombic leaflets, margin more or less lobed, covered with white hairs on the underside and with purple flowers dark.
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| Key identification of lianescent leguminosae | ||||||||
| Bi-pinnate leaves | 1 to 2 pairs of leaflets | Mimosa pudica | ||||||
| 3 to 9 pairs of leaflets | Mimosa diplotricha | |||||||
| Pinnate leaves | Clitoria heterophylla | |||||||
| Tri-foliate leaves | Lateral leaflets symmetrical | Elliptical or oval leaflets | Terminal leaflets similar to lateral leaflets | Teramnus labialis | ||||
| Terminal leaflets larger than lateral leaflets | Venations very marked | Cajanus scarabaeoides | ||||||
| Venations not very visible | leaflets > 10 mm | Desmodium adscendens | ||||||
| leaflets < 10 mm | Desmodium triflorum | |||||||
| Extremes of leaflets acute | Narrowly lanceolate leaflets (2 cm) | Macroptilium lathyroides | ||||||
| Large acuminate leaflets | Trigonal stem scabrous at the angles | Desmodium intortum | ||||||
| Cylindrical stem | Leaflets with a silver spot | petioles 2 mm | Desmodium incanum | |||||
| petioles 5 à 15 mm | Desmodium uncinatum | |||||||
| Leaflets uniform green | Terminal leaflet large (7 cm) | Centrosema pubescens | ||||||
| Terminal leaflet very large(15 cm) | Centrosema plumieri | |||||||
| Lateral leaflets asymmetrical | Terminal leaflet wider than longer | Rhynchosia malacophylla | ||||||
| Terminal leaflet as large as long | Big leaf (15 cm) | Rhynchosia viscosa | ||||||
| Small leaf (7 cm) | Rhynchosia minima | |||||||
| Elongated terminal leaflet | Lateral leaflets with only one rounded lobe | Macroptilium atropurpureum | ||||||
| Lateral leaflet without lobe | big stipules (6 mm) | Lablab purpureus | ||||||
| small stipules (2 mm) | Mucuna pruriens | |||||||
Macroptilium lathyroides can be confused with M. atropurpureum which is distinguished by its rather dragging characteristic, wide oval or rhombic leaflets, margin more or less lobed, covered with white hairs on the underside and with purple flowers dark.
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Ecology
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Macroptilium lathyroides occurs from sea level up to 1800 m altitude
West Indies: Macroptilium lathyroides is an indigenous species. It grows on flat, deep, low-lying soils in dry regions.
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Habitat
Terrestrial
Description
Worldwide distribution
Geographical distibution
Madagascar
Origine
Macroptilium lathyroides is native to tropical AmericaWorldwide distribution
The species is now widespread and naturalized in the topics, including Colombia, Venezuela, Paraguay, Belize, Panama, Brazil, the Caribbean (Jamaica, Antigua and St. Vincent, Cuba) and Australia.
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📚 Occurrence
No Data
📚 Demography and Conservation
Risk Statement
Global harmfulness
Macroptilium lathyroides is a weed of minor importance in rice fields.
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📚 Uses and Management
Management
Global control
Cultural control: Macroptilium lathyroides can be eradicated manually
Biological control: The seedlings are damaged by bean fly.
Chemical control: Pre-emergence prometryne alone or with simazine, alachlor plus 2,4-D, diuron or fluometuron plus surfactant (seedlings). Foliar treatment with 2,4-D should be effective.
Cultural control: Macroptilium lathyroides can be eradicated manually
Biological control: The seedlings are damaged by bean fly.
Chemical control: Pre-emergence prometryne alone or with simazine, alachlor plus 2,4-D, diuron or fluometuron plus surfactant (seedlings). Foliar treatment with 2,4-D should be effective.
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📚 Information Listing
Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
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References
- Grard, P., T. Le Bourgeois, J. Rodenburg, P. Marnotte, A. Carrara, R. Irakiza, D. Makokha, G. kyalo, K. Aloys, K. Iswaria, N. Nguyen and G. Tzelepoglou (2012). AFROweeds V.1.0: African weeds of rice. Cédérom. Montpellier, France & Cotonou, Bénin, Cirad-AfricaRice eds.
- https://www.feedipedia.org/node/627
- Henty E.E. and G.S. Pritchard. 1973. Weeds of New Guinea and their control. Botany bulletin No 7.
- Grossard, F., Le Bourgeois, T., Dumbardon-Martial, E. & Gervais, L. 2013. Adventilles - Guadeloupe & Martinique - Les adventices des Antilles françaises. Abymes, Guadeloupe, France, Les éditions du CTCS Guadeloupe. 195 p.
- Fournet, J. 2002. Flore illustrée des phanérogames de Guadeloupe et de Martinique. Montpellier, France, Cirad, Gondwana éditions.
- https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:149066-2
Information Listing > References
- Grard, P., T. Le Bourgeois, J. Rodenburg, P. Marnotte, A. Carrara, R. Irakiza, D. Makokha, G. kyalo, K. Aloys, K. Iswaria, N. Nguyen and G. Tzelepoglou (2012). AFROweeds V.1.0: African weeds of rice. Cédérom. Montpellier, France & Cotonou, Bénin, Cirad-AfricaRice eds.
- https://www.feedipedia.org/node/627
- Henty E.E. and G.S. Pritchard. 1973. Weeds of New Guinea and their control. Botany bulletin No 7.
- Grossard, F., Le Bourgeois, T., Dumbardon-Martial, E. & Gervais, L. 2013. Adventilles - Guadeloupe & Martinique - Les adventices des Antilles françaises. Abymes, Guadeloupe, France, Les éditions du CTCS Guadeloupe. 195 p.
- Fournet, J. 2002. Flore illustrée des phanérogames de Guadeloupe et de Martinique. Montpellier, France, Cirad, Gondwana éditions.
- https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:149066-2
Images
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Magnoliopsida |
| Order | Fabales |
| Family | Fabaceae |
| Genus | Macroptilium |
| Species | Macroptilium lathyroides (L.) Urb. |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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