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Mucuna bracteata DC.

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HIGHER TAXON: Phaseoleae

GENUS: Mucuna Adans.

Mucuna bracteata DC. [Preferred name]
    Carpopogon bracteatum Roxb. {Synonym}
    Mucuna brevipes Craib {Synonym}
    Mucuna exserta C.E.C.Fisch. {Synonym}
    Mucuna venulosa (Piper)Merr. & F.P.Metcalf {Synonym}
    Stizolobium venulosum Piper {Synonym}

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Asia
Bangladesh (N) [1914, 3517]; China (N) [3421, 3514]; Yunnan [3421]; Hainan (N) [3421]; India (N) [3037, 3038, 3366, 3517]; Arunachal Pradesh [3366]; Assam [3517]; Bihar [3517]; Manipur [3038]; Meghalaya [3517]; Mizoram [3517]; Sikkim [3366]; Tripura [3517]; West Bengal [3037]; Laos (N) [3514]; Myanmar (N) [1914, 3514, 3517]; Thailand (N) [3514]; Vietnam (N) [3514]
  Indian Ocean
Andaman Is (N) [3517]

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [3421, 3514, 3517] ; Distribution Map [3514] ; Illustration [3421, 3514, 3517]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Climbing ; Further editing: 2004-2005 Novoselova MS ; Habit: Herb, Shrub ; Lifespan: Perennial ; Source(s): 1994 (Indo-China) Lock JM & Heald J, 2004-01 (Fl.Sinicae) Novoselova MS extract, 2004-11 (S Asia) Kumar S & Sane P

  
USES:
  Medicine [3030]

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

1914.

  Sanjappa, M., 1992
    Legumes of India. Dehra Dun: Bishen Singh Mahendra...

3030.

  Ambasta, S.P., 1986
    The useful plants of India

3037.

  Chaudhuri, A.B., 1993
    Forest Plants of Eastern India

3038.

  Chaudhuri, A.B., 1985
    Environment and ... temperate forests of India

3366.

  Sanjappa, M., 2000
    Checklist of the Leguminosae in South Asia. Typescript

3421.

  Lee, S.K. & Chang, B.N., 1995
    Erythrina &... In:Fl.Reip.Pop.Sinicae, 41 (Leguminosae 3)

3514.

  Wilmot-Dear, C.M., 1992
    Kew Bull.47:203-245. A revision of Mucuna in Thailand...

3517.

  Wilmot-Dear, C.M., 1987
    Kew Bull.42:23-46. A revision of Mucuna in the Indian...
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