View source for Mucuna ← Mucuna You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reason: The action you have requested is limited to users in the group: Users. You can view and copy the source of this page. {{Treatment/ID |accepted_name=Mucuna |accepted_authority=Adanson |publications={{Treatment/Publication |title=Fam. Pl. |place=2: 325, 579 |other_info_on_pub=(as Mukuna)s. 1763, name and orthography conserved }} |common_names=Sea bean |basionyms= |synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym |name=Stizolobium |authority=P. Browne |rank=genus }} |hierarchy=Fabaceae;Fabaceae subfam. Faboideae;Mucuna |hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Fabaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Fabaceae subfam. Faboideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Mucuna]]</div></div> |etymology=Brazilian mucuna-guaca, name for M. urens (Linnaeus) Medikus |volume=Volume 11 |mention_page= |treatment_page= }}<!-- --><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Vines,</b> annual or perennial, herbaceous or woody, unarmed. <b>Stems</b> trailing or climbing, pubescent. <b>Leaves</b> alternate, odd-pinnate; stipules present, lanceolate; petiolate; leaflets 3, stipels present, blade margins entire, surfaces pubescent. <b>Inflorescences</b> 10–40-flowered, axillary, racemes or umbelliform, pendent; bracts present, caducous. <b>Flowers</b> papilionaceous; calyx 2-lipped, lobes 5, pubescent; corolla white, yellow, or purple, 30–65 mm; stamens 10, diadelphous; anthers dorsifixed; ovary pubescent. <b>Fruits</b> legumes, pendent, pedicellate, brown, oblong, compressed between seeds, dehiscent, pubescent, often with stinging hairs, ridges longitudinal or transverse. <b>Seeds</b> 1–6, black to brown or white, 1–2 cm diam., spherical to oblong, smooth; hilum lateral. <b>x</b> = 11.</span><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |distribution=se United States;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Asia;Africa;Pacific Islands (Hawaii);Australia. |discussion=<p>Species ca. 100 (2 in the flora).</p><!-- --><p>Pending resolution of generic relationships, we follow G. P. Lewis et al. (2005) in treating Mucuna in a broad sense to encompass Stizolobium. The status of putative cultigens, such as M. aterrima (Piper & Tracy) Holland and M. deeringiana (treated here as a synonym of M. pruriens), needs further study. Phylogenetic studies are also needed to resolve issues in species circumscription and the proper application of names, particularly for extralimital taxa.</p><!-- --><p>In addition to the taxa treated below, some species of Mucuna collected from tropical Asia were grown experimentally at the United States Department of Agriculture Experiment Station in Biloxi, Mississippi. These include M. aterrima (= M. pruriens according to R. A. Howard 1974–1989, vol. 4), Stizolobium cinereum Piper & Tracy (no name yet available in Mucuna), M. hassjoo (Piper & Tracy) Mansfeld (= M. pruriens var. utilis according to V. A. Funk et al. 2007), M. lyonii Merrill, M. nivea (Roxburgh) de Candolle ex Wight & Arnott, M. pachylobia Rock, M. stans Welwitsch ex Baker, and M. velutina Hasskarl. There is no evidence that these taxa have escaped.</p> |tables= |references= }}<!-- --><div class="treatment-key"> ==Key== <div class="treatment-key-group"> {| class="wikitable fna-keytable" |-id=key-0-1 |1 |Legumes 5–9 cm, transverse ridges absent; hilum to 1/4 circumference of seeds, elevated; inflorescences racemes; terminal leaflet blades rhombic-ovate. |[[Mucuna pruriens|Mucuna pruriens]] |-id=key-0-1 |1 |Legumes 9–12(–16) cm, transverse ridges conspicuous; hilum nearly circling seeds, not elevated; inflorescences umbelliform; terminal leaflet blades ovate. |[[Mucuna sloanei|Mucuna sloanei]] |} </div></div><!-- -->{{#Taxon: name=Mucuna |author=Rachel K. Clark;Alexander Krings |authority=Adanson |rank=genus |parent rank=subfamily |synonyms=Stizolobium |basionyms= |family=Fabaceae |distribution=se United States;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Asia;Africa;Pacific Islands (Hawaii);Australia. |reference=None |publication title=Fam. Pl. |publication year= |special status= |source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/master/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V11/V11_822.xml |subfamily=Fabaceae subfam. Faboideae |genus=Mucuna }}<!-- -->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Fabaceae subfam. Faboideae]] Templates used on this page: Template:Fabaceae (view source) Template:Treatment/AuthorLink (view source) Template:Treatment/Body (view source) Template:Treatment/Body/Maps (view source) Template:Treatment/ID (view source) Template:Treatment/ID/Synonym (view source) Template:Treatment/Publication (view source) Return to Mucuna.