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Mucuna poggei Taub.

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HIGHER TAXON: Phaseoleae

GENUS: Mucuna Adans.

Mucuna poggei Taub. [Preferred name]
    Mucuna pesa De Wild. {Synonym}
    Mucuna rubro-aurantiaca De Wild. {Synonym}

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Angola (N) [210]; Burundi (N) [8]; Cameroon (N) [210]; Central African Rep. (N) [210]; Ghana (N) [212]; Guinea Bissau (N) [224]; Ivory Coast (N) [8]; Kenya (N) [210]; Liberia (N) [8]; Malawi (N) [210]; Mali (N) [561]; Mozambique (N) [210]; Nigeria (N) [212]; Sierra Leone (N) [212]; Sudan (N) [210]; Tanzania (N) [210]; Togo (N) [212]; Uganda (N) [210]; Zaire (N) [210]; Zambia (N) [210]; Zimbabwe (N) [210]

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Guinea-Congolia/Sudania regional transition zone; forest. [210];
    Lake Victoria regional mosaic; bushland and thicket [210];
    Lake Victoria regional mosaic; forest. [210];
    Somalia-Masai bushland and thicket [210];
    Somalia-Masai forest [210];
    Sudanian bushland and thicket [210];
    Sudanian forest. [210];
    Zambezian bushland and thicket [210];
    Zambezian forest [210];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [210] ; Illustration [210, 230]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Climbing ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Habit: Herb, Shrub ; Lifespan: Perennial ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM, 1993 Polhill RM

  
USES:
  Chemical products [213]; Toxins [210, 213]

  
NOTES:
  Extremely irritant hairs on pods and calyx.(JML personal experience & FTEA). []

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

8.

  Lock, J.M., 1985
    Specimen in Herb.Kew

210.

  Gillett, J.B. et al., 1971
    Papilionoideae.In:Fl.Trop.E.Africa,Milne-Redhead & Polhill

212.

  Hepper, F.N., 1958
    Papilionoideae.In:Flora West Tropical Africa.Keay,R.W.J.

213.

  Robyns, W.(Ed.), 1954
    Flore du Congo Belge Vol.6.Dalbergieae,Vicieae,Phaseoleae.

224.

  D'Orey, J. & Liberato, Maria C., 1971
    Flora da Guinea Portuguesa: Papilionoideae

230.

  Robyns, W.(Ed.), 1954
    Flore du Congo Belge Vol.6. Dalbergieae,Vicieae,Phaseoleae

561.

  Boudet, G. & Lebrun, J.-P., 1986
    Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Mali.IEMVPT Et.+Syn.16.
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