Home | > | List of families | > | Fabaceae subfamily Papilionoideae | > | Calopogonium | > | mucunoides |
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Trailing or twining herb up to several m long, densely covered in long, rusty, spreading hairs. Leaves 3-foliolate with leaflets elliptic, ovate or rhombic-ovate, mostly 4-10 cm long, appressed hairy on both surfaces; petiole 2-16 cm long. Flowers blue to violet, axillary in 1-several c. 6-flowered clusters, together forming an inflorescence 1-10 cm long on a peduncle 0-17 cm long. Pods linear-oblong, 2-4cm long, straight or curved, densely covered in rusty, bristly hairs. |
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Derivation of specific name: | mucunoides: resembling Mucuna another leguminous genus. |
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Worldwide distribution: | Native to tropical Central and South America and widely cultivated as a cover crop in Africa and Asia, often found as a naturalized escape. |
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Literature: |
Mackinder, B. et al. (2001). Papilionoideae Flora Zambesiaca 3(5) Page 62. |
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