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Taxon:  Mucuna pruriens (L.) DC. var. utilis (Wall. ex Wight) Baker ex Burck (Mucuna pruriens Utilis Group)



Summary
Genus:
Mucuna
Family:
Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae)
Subfamily:
Faboideae
Tribe:
Phaseoleae
Nomen number:
310522
Place of publication:
Ann. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg 11:187. 1893
Comment:
[or M. pruriens Utilis Group]
Verified:
09/23/1986 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
2 (2  active, 2  available) in National Plant Germplasm System.  (Map it)
Other conspecific taxa
Mucuna pruriens (L.) DC. (5 active accession[s])
Mucuna pruriens (L.) DC. var. hirsuta (Wight & Arn.) Wilmot-Dear (0 active accession[s])
Mucuna pruriens (L.) DC. var. pruriens (0 active accession[s])
Mucuna pruriens (L.) DC. var. sericophylla (Perkins) Wilmot-Dear (0 active accession[s])
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Basionym
Mucuna utilis Wall. ex Wight

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
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Reference(s)
  1. Adam, J.-G. 1971-. Flore descriptive des monts Nimba.
  2. duCellier, J. 1999. pers. comm. Note: re. common names
  3. Duke, J. A. 1981. Handbook of legumes of world economic importance
  4. Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds. 1997. Auxiliary plants. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 11:199-203. URL: http://proseanet.org
  5. Graham, E. H. 1941. Legumes for erosion control and wildlife. USDA Misc. Publ. 412. Note: = Mucuna deeringiana
  6. Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long. 1984-. Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim.
  7. Howard, R. 1974-1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles.
  8. Huang, S. F. & T. C. Huang. 1987. Taxonomic treatment of the Papilionoideae (Leguminosae) of Taiwan. Taiwania 32:11-117.
  9. Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening
  10. International Seed Testing Association. 1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
  11. Jardim e Museu Agricola do Ultramar, Portugal. 1971-1973. Flora da Guine Portuguesa.
  12. Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. Note: = Mucuna deeringiana
  13. Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2
  14. 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
  15. Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
  16. Sathynarayana, N. et al. 2016. Role of genetic resources and molecular markers in Mucuna pruriens (L.) DC improvement. Pl. Genet. Resources Charact. Util. 14:270-282. URL: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=PGR#
  17. Smith, A. C. 1979-1991. Flora vitiensis nova.
  18. Verdcourt, B. 1979. A manual of New Guinea legumes.
  19. Wilmot-Dear, C. M. 1984. A revision of Mucuna (Leguminosae-Phaseoleae) in China and Japan. Kew Bull. 39:63.
  20. Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition). URL: http://www.efloras.org/browse.aspx?flora_id=2
Common names
English
Bengal velvet-bean –
cowage velvet-bean –
Florida velvet-bean –
lacuna-bean –
Lyon-bean –
Mauritius velvet-bean –
velvet-bean –
Yokohama velvet-bean –
Italian
stizolobia –
Spanish
guisante negro –
Transcribed Chinese
li dou –
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
2Cultivated    cult. worldwide
Cultivated (cult. worldwide)
Economic Uses
UsageTypeNoteReference
Animal foodforage Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2
Bee plantshoney production Graham, E. H. 1941. Legumes for erosion control and wildlife. USDA Misc. Publ. 412. Note: = Mucuna deeringiana
Environmentalornamental Duke, J. A. 1981. Handbook of legumes of world economic importance
Environmentalsoil improver Duke, J. A. 1981. Handbook of legumes of world economic importance
Human foodpulse Duke, J. A. 1981. Handbook of legumes of world economic importance
Medicinessource of L-dopaas Mucuna deeringianaFarnsworth, N. R. & D. D. Soejarto. 1988. Global importance of medicinal plants (unpublished draft manuscript rev. 23)


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