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St. Thomas bean Fabaceae Possibly indigenous to the Hawaiian Islands (known only from one location on Kauaʻi) Kauaʻi (Cultivated)

The tough stems are used for coarse cables and jump ropes. The lianas provide a potable, watery sap that is drunk in times of need. In Tonga, it is used for medicinal purposes and formerly the large seeds were used as a throwing piece in native games.

Polynesian Names: Fue inu (Samoa); Kaka (Cooks); Sipi (ʻUvea); Tipi (Futuna); Valai? (Futuna); Wa lai (Fiji). The seeds are called Tifa or Tupe in Samoa; and Paʻanga, Sipi, or Valai in Tonga.

Etymology The generic name Entada is derived from a Malabar name used by van Rheede for the genus of giant seeds that float across oceans. Hendrik Adriaan van Rheede (1636-1691) was a Dutch naturalist, governor of Cochin in Indi.

The specific epithet is from the Latin phaseolus, that the Greek physician Pedanius Dioscorides (40-90 C.E.) used for a kind of bean, phaselus, phaseli. The suffix -oides means similar or resembling.

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Author David Eickhoff from Hawaiʻi, USA

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