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Matchbox Bean
Entada phaseoloides
Entada phaseoloides 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: called Gugo, Balugo or Tamayan in the Philippines and Bàm bàm in Viet Nam. No subspecies are listed in the Catalogue of Life.
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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Every page naming Entada phaseoloides in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 162325.

