Fabaceae
Guar
Cyamopsis tetragonoloba
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Genus
- Cyamopsis
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Common names
By language (30)
- Arabic
- قوار رباعي, قوار سابلي
- arz
- قوار رباعى
- Chinese
- 瓜兒豆, 瓜尔, 瓜儿豆, 瓜胶豆
- Danish
- Guarbønne
- Dutch
- Guarplant
- English
- Guar
- Esperanto
- Guaro
- German
- Guarbohne
- Gujarati
- ગુવાર, ગવાર
- Hebrew
- גואר
- Hindi
- ग्वार
- Hungarian
- Csomósbab, Guárbab
- Indonesian
- Guar
- Japanese
- クラスタマメ
- Kannada
- ಗೋರಿಕಾಯಿ
- Korean
- 구아
- lah
- گوارا
- Lithuanian
- Kampuotoji pupenė
- Malayalam
- കൊത്തമര
- Marathi
- गवार
- Persian
- گوآر
- Punjabi
- ਗੁਆਰਾ
- Russian
- Гуар
- Sanskrit
- गोराणी
- Sindhi
- گئار
- Swahili
- Mgwaru
- Tamil
- கொத்தவரை
- Telugu
- గోరు చిక్కుడు
- Ukrainian
- Гуаровий біб
- Urdu
- گوار
Synonyms
- Cordaea fabiformis Spreng.
- Cyamopsis psoralioides (Lam.) DC.
- Cyamopsis psoraloides (Lam.) DC.
- Cyanopsis tetragonoloba (L.) Taub.
- Dolichos fabaeformis L'Her.
- Dolichos fabiformis L'Her.
- Dolichos fabiformis L'Hér.
- Dolichos psoraloides DC.
- Dolichos psoraloides Lam.
- Indigofera tetragonoloba Steud.
- Lopinus trifoliolatus Cav.
- Lupinus guadiloupensis Steud.
- Lupinus guatimalensis Steud.
- Lupinus trifoliatus Cav.
- Psoralea tetragonoloba L.
- Trigonella goalia Buch.-Ham. ex Wall.
- Trigonella tetrapetala Roxb. ex Wight & Arn.
Photos
Photo: Dinesh Valke from Thane, India, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Ajtjohnsingh, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.