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Mucuna urens (L.)Medik.

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HIGHER TAXON: Phaseoleae

GENUS: Mucuna Adans.

Mucuna urens (L.)Medik. [Preferred name]
    Dolichos altissimus Jacq. {Synonym}
    Dolichos urens L.(1759) {Synonym}
    Mucuna altissima (Jacq.)DC. {Synonym}
    Stizolobium altissimum (Jacq.)Pers. {Synonym}

  
VERNACULAR NAME:
  Fogarate [2157]; Guaimate [2157]; Ojo De Buey [2157]; Ox-eye Bean [1056]; Pica Pica [2157]; Torteza [2157]; Yeux Bourrique [2157]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Caribbean
Cuba (N) [1056]; Dominican Republic (N) [1056, 2157]; Haiti (N) [1056, 2157]; Jamaica (N) [1056]; Puerto Rico (N) [1056]; St Kitts-Nevis (N) [1056]; Trinidad & Tobago (N) [1056]
  Central America
Costa Rica (N) [1645]; El Salvador (N) [2156]; Guatemala (N) [1645]; Nicaragua (N) [3348]; Panama (N) [1224, 1645]
  Pacific Ocean
Hawaii (U) [1949]
  South America
Brazil (N) [1414, 1442, 1645]; French Guiana (N) [2285]; Guyana (N) [2285]; Peru (N) [1442]; Surinam (N) [2285]

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [1056, 1645, 2157, 3348]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Climbing ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Further editing: 2005-07 (Americas update) Sokolova IV [3348] ; Habit: Shrub ; Lifespan: Perennial ; Source(s): 1988 (Americas) Zarucchi JL, 1993 Zarucchi JL

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

1056.

  Adams, C.D., 1972
    Flowering Plants of Jamaica Univ. West Indies, Mona, Jamaica

1224.

  D'Arcy, W.G., 1987
    Monogr.Syst.Botany Missouri Botanical Garden. Flora Panama.

1414.

  Lewis, G.P., 1987
    Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 369 pp Legumes of Bahia

1442.

  Macbride, J.F., 1943
    Publ.Field Mus.Nat.Hist.,Bot.Ser.13(3/1):1-506 Leguminosae

1645.

  Standley, P.C. & Steyermark, J.A, 1946
    Fieldiana, Bot. 24(5):1-425 Leguminosae

1939.

  Lock, J.M. & Simpson, K., 1991
    Legumes of West Asia: A Checklist. RBG, Kew.

1949.

  Wagner, W.L. et al, 1990
    Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawaii, Vol.1.

2156.

  Berendsohn, W.G. & AranivaGonza, 1979
    Cuscatlania 1(2):1-16

2157.

  Liogier, A.H., 1985
    La Flore de la Espanola.III

2285.

  Boggan, V. et al., 1993
    Checklist of plants of the Guianas. Univ.Guyana. Georgetown.

3348.

  Stevens, W.D., et al., 2001
    Flora de Nicaragua,85(2)...Missouri Bot.Gard.Press
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