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Taxon:  Mucuna gigantea (Willd.) DC.



Summary
Genus:
Mucuna
Family:
Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae)
Subfamily:
Faboideae
Tribe:
Phaseoleae
Nomen number:
24640
Place of publication:
Prodr. 2:405. 1825
Verified:
03/11/1987 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
1 (0  active, 0  available) in National Plant Germplasm System.  (Map it)
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Basionym
Dolichos giganteus Willd.

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Reference(s)
  1. Arnold, H. L. 1968. Poisonous plants of Hawaii.
  2. Aubréville, A. et al., eds. 1960-. Flore du Cambodge du Laos et du Viet-Nam.
  3. Bentham, G. 1863-1878. Flora australiensis
  4. Hennessy, E. F. 1991. Erythrineae (Fabaceae) in Southern Africa. Bothalia 21:18.
  5. Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
  6. Huang, S. F. & T. C. Huang. 1987. Taxonomic treatment of the Papilionoideae (Leguminosae) of Taiwan. Taiwania 32:11-117.
  7. Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource). URL: http://www.anbg.gov.au/common.names/
  8. Lock, J. M. 1989. Legumes of Africa: a checklist
  9. Moura, T. M. et al. 2014. (2283) Proposal to reject the name Dolichos altissimus (Leguminosae: Papilionoideae) thus protecting the name Mucuna gigantea. Taxon 63:439. URL: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/iapt/tax
  10. Ohashi, H. & Y. Tateishi. 1976. Mucuna macrocarpa and M. gigantea (Leguminosae) in Japan and Formosa. J. Jap. Bot. 51:161-168. URL: http://www.tsumura.co.jp/english/kampo/plant/info/index.html
  11. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource). URL: http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Frontpage.html
  12. Smith, A. C. 1979-1991. Flora vitiensis nova.
  13. Tateishi, Y. & H. Ohashi. 1981. Eastern Asiatic species of Mucuna (Leguminosae). Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 94:92.
  14. Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952-. Flora of tropical East Africa.
  15. Verdcourt, B. 1979. A manual of New Guinea legumes.
  16. Wilmot-Dear, C. M. 1984. A revision of Mucuna (Leguminosae-Phaseoleae) in China and Japan. Kew Bull. 39:56.
  17. Wilmot-Dear, C. M. 1986. A revision of Mucuna (Leguminosae : Phaseoleae) in the Indian subcontinent and Burma. Kew Bull. 42:38.
  18. Wilmot-Dear, C. M. 1990. A revision of Mucuna (Leguminosae: Phaseoleae) in the Pacific. Kew Bull. 45:5.
  19. Wilmot-Dear, C. M. 1991. A revision of Mucuna (Leguminosae-Phaseoleae) in the Philippines. Kew Bull. 46:217.
  20. Wilmot-Dear, C. M. 1992. A revision of Mucuna (Leguminosae: Phaseoleae) in Thailand, Indochina and the Malay Peninsula. Kew Bull. 47:213.
  21. PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource). URL: http://www.prota4u.info/
Common names
English
black-bean –
velvet-bean –
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
1NativeAfricaEast Tropical AfricaKenya  
1NativeAfricaEast Tropical AfricaTanzania  
1NativeAfricaEast Tropical AfricaUganda  
1NativeAfricaSouth Tropical AfricaMozambique  
1NativeAfricaSouthern AfricaSouth AfricaKwaZulu-Natale.
1NativeAfricaWest-Central Tropical AfricaDemocratic Republic of the Congo  
1NativeAfricaWestern Indian OceanSeychelles  
1NativeAsia-TemperateChinaChinaHainan Sheng 
1NativeAsia-TemperateEastern AsiaJapanRyukyu Islands 
1NativeAsia-TemperateEastern AsiaTaiwan s.
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentBangladesh  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndia s.
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentSri Lanka  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndo-ChinaMyanmar s.
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndo-ChinaThailand s.
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndo-ChinaVietnam  
1NativeAsia-TropicalMalesiaIndonesia  
1NativeAsia-TropicalMalesiaMalaysia  
1NativeAsia-TropicalMalesiaPhilippines  
1NativeAsia-TropicalPapuasiaPapua New Guinea  
1NativeAustralasiaAustraliaAustraliaNew South Walesn.e.
1NativeAustralasiaAustraliaAustraliaNorthern Territoryn.
1NativeAustralasiaAustraliaAustraliaQueensland 
1NativeAustralasiaAustraliaAustraliaWestern Australian.
1NativePacificNorth-Central PacificUnited StatesHawaii 
1NativePacificSouth-Central PacificFrench Polynesia  
1NativePacificSouthwestern PacificFiji  
1NativePacificSouthwestern PacificNew Caledonia  
Native
Africa
  • EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
  • WEST-CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA: Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • SOUTH TROPICAL AFRICA: Mozambique
  • SOUTHERN AFRICA: South Africa [KwaZulu-Natal (e.)]
  • WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN: Seychelles
Asia-Temperate
  • CHINA: China [Hainan Sheng]
  • EASTERN ASIA: Japan [Ryukyu Islands], Taiwan (s.)
Asia-Tropical
  • INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: Bangladesh, India (s.), Sri Lanka
  • PAPUASIA: Papua New Guinea
  • INDO-CHINA: Myanmar (s.), Thailand (s.), Vietnam
  • MALESIA: Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines
Australasia
  • AUSTRALIA: Australia [New South Wales (n.e.), Queensland, Western Australia (n.), Northern Territory (n.)]
Pacific
  • NORTH-CENTRAL PACIFIC: United States [Hawaii]
  • SOUTH-CENTRAL PACIFIC: French Polynesia
  • SOUTHWESTERN PACIFIC: Fiji, New Caledonia
Economic Uses
UsageTypeNoteReference
Vertebrate poisonsmammals Arnold, H. L. 1968. Poisonous plants of Hawaii.


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