| General Information |
| Distribution | Pantropical, coastal.In the Hawaiian Islands,
indigenous to
Kaua`i, O`ahu, Moloka`i, Maui, Hawai`i.
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Habit
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Somewhat succulent creeping or climbing perennial herbs up to several m long, becoming woody toward base, sparsely to densely pubescent.
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Leaves
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Leaflets rhombic elliptic to broadly rhombic ovate or obovate, 3.5-10.5 cm long, 2.5-8.8 cm wide, sparsely appressed pilose, soon glabrate, apex rounded to emarginate, stipules peltate.
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Flowers
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Flowers slightly waxy, in racemes 6.3-14 cm long, peduncles 4.3-10.5 cm long, pedicels 4.5-6 mm long; calyx green, tinged reddish, upper 2 lobes completely connate, forming an entire upper lip 1.8-2 mm long, lateral lobes deltate, ca. 1.5 mm long, lowest tooth deltate, ca. 2 mm long, glabrous; corolla green in bud, bright yellow at anthesis, 12-19 mm long, standard very broadly obcordate, reflexed, keel not beaked, incurved ca. 1/2 turn or less; style bearded below the stigma along the inner edge.
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Fruit
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Pods linear oblong, inflated, slightly curved, 35-60 mm long, 8-9 mm wide, glabrous, slightly constricted between the seeds.
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Seeds
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Seeds 2-10, yellowish brown to reddish brown, reniform or broadly ellipsoid, 6-7 mm long, 4.5-6 mm wide, slightly compressed, hilum oblong, rim aril scarcely developed.
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Chromosomes
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2n = 22.
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Contributor
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Warren Wagner
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