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Mucuna pallida Cordem.

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HIGHER TAXON: Phaseoleae

GENUS: Mucuna Adans.

Mucuna pallida Cordem. [Preferred name]

  
VERNACULAR NAME:
  Cadoque Blanche [1915]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Indian Ocean
Reunion (N) [1915]

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [1915] ; Illustration [1915]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Climbing ; Further editing: 2005-10 Agababian M - Ed.scr.French Names ; Habit: Shrub ; Lifespan: Perennial ; Source(s): 1993 (Indian Ocean) Lock JM & Ireland H

  
NOTES:
  Fruit and seeds are unknown. [1915]
  May be better placed as a subsp. of M.gigantea if fruits prove to be similar. [1915]

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

1915.

  Polhill, R, M., 1990
    Legumineuses.In:Flore des Mascareignes,Vol 80.J. Bosser et a

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