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  9. ›Clitoriinae
  10. ›Centrosema
soft butterfly-pea
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soft butterfly-pea

Centrosema molle

Centrosema molle, the soft butterfly pea or spurred butterfly pea, is a perennial climbing herb in the legume family Fabaceae. Native to regions from southern Mexico through Central and South America, the species is distributed across countries including Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, and much of the Caribbean, and has been introduced to parts of Asia and the Pacific such as India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Samoa. It typically inhabits seasonally dry tropical biomes, thriving in forests, savannas,...

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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 321915.