Canavalia

Accepted species 73 Documented here 15 Family Fabaceae

Accepted species 73 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Canavalia rosea (Sw.) DC. 725 documented
Canavalia lineata (Thunb.) DC. 92 documented
Canavalia cathartica Thouars 39 documented
Canavalia septentrionalis J.D.Sauer 33 documented
Canavalia bonariensis Lindl. 23 documented
Canavalia oxyphylla Standl. & L.O.Williams 21 documented
Canavalia gladiata (Jacq.) DC. 20 documented
Canavalia villosa Benth. 15 documented
Canavalia sericea A.Gray 13 documented
Canavalia brasiliensis Mart. ex Benth. 7 documented
Canavalia ensiformis (L.) DC. 5 documented
Canavalia parviflora Benth. 5 documented
Canavalia galeata (Gaudich.) Vogel 4 documented
Canavalia hirsutissima J.D.Sauer 4 documented
Canavalia papuana Merr. & L.M.Perry 4 documented
Canavalia acuminata Rose 0 below the evidence gate
Canavalia africana Dunn 0 below the evidence gate
Canavalia altipendula (Piper) Standl. 0 below the evidence gate
Canavalia atroferruginea J.Linares, G.Andrade & Cruz Durán 0 below the evidence gate
Canavalia aurita J.D.Sauer 0 below the evidence gate
Canavalia beniensis Aymard & Cuello 0 below the evidence gate
Canavalia bicarinata Standl. 0 below the evidence gate
Canavalia boliviana Piper 0 below the evidence gate
Canavalia campylodonta J.Linares, G.Andrade & Cruz Durán 0 below the evidence gate
Canavalia cassidea G.P.Lewis 0 below the evidence gate
Canavalia concinna J.D.Sauer 0 below the evidence gate
Canavalia cuchillae J.Linares, G.Andrade & Cruz Durán 0 below the evidence gate
Canavalia dolichothyrsa G.P.Lewis 0 below the evidence gate
Canavalia dura J.D.Sauer 0 below the evidence gate
Canavalia eurycarpa Piper 0 below the evidence gate
Canavalia favieri I.C.Nielsen 0 below the evidence gate
Canavalia gibbosa J.Linares, G.Andrade & Cruz Durán 0 below the evidence gate
Canavalia glabra (M.Martens & Galeotti) J.D.Sauer 0 below the evidence gate
Canavalia gladiolata J.D.Sauer 0 below the evidence gate
Canavalia grandiflora Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Canavalia hawaiiensis O.Deg., I.Deg. & J.D.Sauer 0 below the evidence gate
Canavalia kauaiensis J.D.Sauer 0 below the evidence gate
Canavalia llanorum Snak, Aymard & L.P.Queiroz 0 below the evidence gate
Canavalia macrantha J.Linares, G.Andrade & Cruz Durán 0 below the evidence gate
Canavalia macrobotrys Merr. 0 below the evidence gate
Canavalia macropleura Piper 0 below the evidence gate
Canavalia madagascariensis J.D.Sauer 0 below the evidence gate
Canavalia mandibulata J.D.Sauer 0 below the evidence gate
Canavalia mattogrossensis (Barb.Rodr.) Malme 0 below the evidence gate
Canavalia matudae J.D.Sauer 0 below the evidence gate
Canavalia mauiensis H.St.John 0 below the evidence gate
Canavalia megalantha Merr. 0 below the evidence gate
Canavalia microsperma Urb. 0 below the evidence gate
Canavalia mireyae J.Linares, G.Andrade & Cruz Durán 0 below the evidence gate
Canavalia mollis Wall. ex Wight & Arn. 0 below the evidence gate
Canavalia molokaiensis O.Deg., I.Deg. & J.D.Sauer 0 below the evidence gate
Canavalia napaliensis H.St.John 0 below the evidence gate
Canavalia nitida (Cav.) Piper 0 below the evidence gate
Canavalia obidensis Ducke 0 below the evidence gate
Canavalia palmeri (Piper) Standl. 0 below the evidence gate
Canavalia picta Mart. ex Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Canavalia piperi Killip & J.F.Macbr. 0 below the evidence gate
Canavalia plagiosperma Piper 0 below the evidence gate
Canavalia pubescens Hook. & Arn. 0 below the evidence gate
Canavalia raiateensis J.W.Moore 0 below the evidence gate
Canavalia ramosii J.D.Sauer 0 below the evidence gate
Canavalia reflexiflora Snak, G.P.Lewis & L.P.Queiroz 0 below the evidence gate
Canavalia regalis Dunn 0 below the evidence gate
Canavalia rotundata J.Linares, G.Andrade & Cruz Durán 0 below the evidence gate
Canavalia rugosa J.Linares, G.Andrade & Cruz Durán 0 below the evidence gate
Canavalia saueri Fantz 0 below the evidence gate
Canavalia sericophylla Ducke 0 below the evidence gate
Canavalia sousae J.Linares, G.Andrade & Cruz Durán 0 below the evidence gate
Canavalia straminea J.Linares, G.Andrade & Cruz Durán 0 below the evidence gate
Canavalia variegata J.Linares, G.Andrade & Cruz Durán 0 below the evidence gate
Canavalia veillonii I.C.Nielsen 0 below the evidence gate
Canavalia vitiensis J.D.Sauer 0 below the evidence gate
Canavalia wurdackii Aymard & Cuello 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.