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Genus: Mucuna
Family: Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae) subfamily: Faboideae tribe: Phaseoleae. Also placed in:
Papilionaceae
Nomen number: 24652
Place of publication: Prodr. 2:405. 1825
Name verified on: 12-Mar-1987 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 23-Aug-1994
Species priority site is: Southern Regional PI Station (S9).
Accessions:
2 in National Plant Germplasm System.
See also subordinate taxa:
- Bengal velvet-bean (Source: Dict Rehm
) – English [Mucuna pruriens var. utilis]
- cow-itch (Source: CRC MedHerbs ed2
) – English
- cowage velvet-bean (Source: Dict Rehm
) – English [Mucuna pruriens var. utilis]
- cowhage (Source: CRC MedHerbs ed2
) – English
- cowitch (Source: Dict Rehm
) – English [Mucuna pruriens var. pruriens]
- Florida velvet-bean (Source: Hortus 3
[as M. deeringiana]) – English [Mucuna pruriens var. utilis]
- lacuna-bean (Source: J. duCellier, p.c. [via email on 12 Jul 1999]) – English [Mucuna pruriens var. utilis]
- Lyon-bean (Source: Leg WorldEc
) – English [Mucuna pruriens var. utilis]
- Mauritius velvet-bean (Source: Dict Rehm
) – English [Mucuna pruriens var. utilis]
- velvet-bean (Source: Herbs Commerce ed2
) – English
- velvet-bean (Source: World Econ Pl
) – English [Mucuna pruriens var. utilis]
- Yokohama velvet-bean (Source: Leg WorldEc
) – English [Mucuna pruriens var. utilis]
- pois pouilleux (Source: Dict Rehm
) – French [Mucuna pruriens var. pruriens]
- Juckbohne (Source: Dict Rehm
) – German [Mucuna pruriens var. pruriens]
- chiporro (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Spanish [Mucuna pruriens var. pruriens]
- guisante negro (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Spanish [Mucuna pruriens var. utilis]
- picapica (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Spanish [Mucuna pruriens var. pruriens]
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Native:
- AFRICA
Northeast Tropical Africa: Chad; Ethiopia; Somalia; Sudan
East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
West-Central Tropical Africa: Burundi; Cameroon; Central African Republic; Equatorial Guinea; Sao Tome and Principe; Zaire
West Tropical Africa: Ghana; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Liberia; Nigeria; Senegal; Sierra Leone; Togo
South Tropical Africa: Angola; Malawi; Zambia; Zimbabwe
Southern Africa: South Africa - KwaZulu-Natal, Transvaal
Western Indian Ocean: Madagascar
- ASIA-TROPICAL
Indian Subcontinent: Bangladesh; Bhutan; India; Nepal; Sri Lanka
Indo-China: Cambodia; Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam
Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia; Papua New Guinea; Philippines
Naturalized:
Cultivated:
- Adam, J.-G.
1971–. Flore descriptive des monts Nimba. (F MtNimba)
- Adams, C.
1972. Flowering plants of Jamaica. (F Jam)
- Aubréville, A. et al., eds.
1960–. Flore du Cambodge du Laos et du Viet-Nam. (F CambLVN)
- Duke, J. A. et al.
2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
- Encke, F. et al.
1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13)
- Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds.
1997. Auxiliary plants.
Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs)
11:196–199.
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO).
2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
- Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long.
1984–. Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim. (F Bhutan)
- Holm, L. et al.
1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. (Atlas WWeed)
- Howard, R.
1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles. (F LAnt)
- Huxley, A., ed.
1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
- Jardim e Museu Agricola do Ultramar, Portugal.
1971–1973. Flora da Guine Portuguesa. (F Guine Port)
- Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper.
1953–1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2. (F WT Afr)
- Lock, J. M.
1989. Legumes of Africa: a checklist. (Leg Africa)
- McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker.
2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
- Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds.
1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan. (F Pak)
- Porcher, M. H. et al.
Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
- Pulle, A. A. et al., eds.
1932–. Flora of Suriname. (F Suriname)
- Turrill, W. B. et al., eds.
1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa. (F TE Afr)
- Verdcourt, B.
1979. A manual of New Guinea legumes. (Leg New Guinea)
- Wilmot-Dear, C. M.
1984. Kew Bull.
39:61.
- Woodson, R. E. & R. W. Schery, eds.
1943–1980. Flora of Panama. (F Panama)
[= Stizolobium pruriens (L.) Medik.].
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Synonyms:
Check other databases for Mucuna pruriens (L.) DC.:
- SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity
Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
- On-line Flora of Zimbabwe
- ILDIS: International Legume Database & Information Service
- Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
- ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
- AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
- Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed
citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
Note: Defaults to a search by genus
or species epithet if species binomial not found.
Images or nodulation data:
- More:
- Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
-
 Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be
inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require
specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with
properly documented herbarium material.
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USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville,
Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?24652 (09 February 2010)
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