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Mucuna pruriens var. utilis (Wall. ex Wight)L.H.Bailey

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HIGHER TAXON: Phaseoleae

GENUS: Mucuna Adans.

Mucuna pruriens var. utilis (Wall. ex Wight)L.H.Bailey [Preferred name]
    Carpopogon capitatum Roxb. {Synonym}
    Carpopogon capitatus Roxb. {Synonym}
    Carpopogon niveum Roxb. {Synonym}
    Macranthus cochinchinensis Lour. {Synonym}
    Mucuna aterrima (Piper & Tracy)Holland {Synonym}
    Mucuna atrocarpa F.P.Metcalf {Synonym}
    Mucuna capitata Wight & Arn. {Synonym}
    Mucuna deeringiana (Bort)Merr. {Synonym}
    Mucuna hassjoo (Piper & Tracy)Mansf. {Synonym}
    Mucuna martinii H.Lev. & Vaniot {Synonym}
    Mucuna nivea (Roxb.)Wight & Arn. {Synonym}
    Mucuna pruriens var. capitata (Wight & Arn.)Burck {Synonym}
    Mucuna pruriens var. capitata Burck {Synonym}
    Mucuna pruriens var. nivea (Roxb.)Haines {Synonym}
    Mucuna utilis Wight {Synonym}
    Stizolobium aterrimum Piper & Tracy {Synonym}
    Stizolobium deeringianum Bort {Synonym}
    Stizolobium hassjoo Piper & Tracy {Synonym}
    Stizolobium pruriens (L.)Medik. {Synonym}
    Stizolobium pruriens var. hassjoo (Piper & Tracy)Makino {Synonym}
    Stizolobium utile (Wall. ex Wight)Ditmer {Synonym}

  
VERNACULAR NAME:
  Barkhatnye Boby [4077, 4142]; Bengal Bean [1790, 1902, 3705]; Cafe Brazilii [1790]; Kafe Go Bouwo [1790]; Mauritius Bean [1902, 2264, 3705]; Mekhmerpakhla [2138]; Picapica [3348]; Pois Mascate [1915]; Portuguese Coffee [1790]; Stizolobium Poleznyi [4544]; Velvet Bean [1915, 3027, 3705]; Velvetbean [1902]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Kenya (I) [210]; Tanzania (I) [210]; Uganda (I) [210]
  Asia
Azerbaijan (I) Azerbaijan* [2138, 4169]; Nakhichevan [4169]; China (U) [1179, 1963, 3421, 3515]; Guangdong [3421]; Guangxi [3421]; Guizhou [3421]; Hubei [3421]; Sichuan [3421]; Gruzia (I) Abkhazia [4142]; Adzharia [4142]; Gruzia* [4142]; Hainan (U) [3421]; India (I) [1914, 3040, 3140, 3366, 3376, 3377, 3517]; Arunachal Pradesh [3040]; Bihar [3517]; Haryana [3517]; Himachal Pradesh [3140]; Jammu-Kashmir [3366]; Kerala [3517]; Madhaya Pradesh [3366]; Orissa [3376]; Punjab [3377]; Sikkim [3517]; Tamil Nadu [3517]; Uttar Pradesh [3517]; West Bengal [3517]; Japan (I) [1963, 2823]; Jawa (I) [1969]; Nepal (I) [3369]; Sri Lanka (I) [1957, 3705]; Taiwan (U) [1179, 2830, 3421]; Thailand (N) [3514]; Vietnam (N) [3514]
  Australasia
Australia (I) [1880]; Queensland [1880]; Papua New Guinea (I) [261]
  Caribbean
Barbados (N) [1790]; Guadeloupe (N) [1790]; St Lucia (N) [1790]
  Central America
Mexico (U) [3348]; Nicaragua (N) [3348]
  Indian Ocean
Laccadive Is (I) [3379]; Mauritius (I) [1915]; Reunion (I) [1915]
  North America
United States (I) [1431, 1850]
  Pacific Ocean
Bismarck Archipelago (I) [261]; Fiji (I) [1940, 2264]; Hawaii (I) [1984]; Nauru (I) [2235]; Solomon Is (I) [1984]

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [210, 1790, 1915, 1919, 1947, 1963, 2138, 2148, 3053, 3348, 3421, 3514, 3515, 3517, 4142, 4433] ; Distribution Map [1963, 4142] ; Illustration [1915, 1919, 2830, 3421, 4142]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Climbing [2138] [3053] [4433] ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Further editing: 2004-2005 Novoselova MS, 2005-07 (Americas update) Sokolova IV [3348], 2005-10 Agababian M - Ed.scr.French Names ; Habit: Herb [1915] [2138] [4433], Shrub ; Lifespan: Annual [1915] [2138] [4433], Perennial [1915] ; Scrutinised globally by taxonomic co-ordinator: 1993 Polhill RM ; Source(s): 1990 (Americas Update) Zarucchi JL, 1990 (New Zealand & Pacific) Horn P, 1993 (Indian Ocean) Lock JM & Ireland H, 1993 Zarucchi JL, 1994 (Indo-China) Lock JM & Heald J, 1996 (Japan) Ohashi H, 2004-01 (Fl.Sinicae) Novoselova MS ext

  
USES:
  Environmental [1790, 1915, 1940, 2138, 2148, 2264, 3514, 3515, 4142]; Food and Drink [1947, 2138, 4142, 4433]; Forage [210, 1915, 1940, 1947, 2138, 3515, 4142, 4433]

  
NOTES:
  Very rarely cultivated in Transcaucasia 2 0 [4705]

  
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