Mucuna diabolica Backer

Wiriadinata, H., Ohashi, H. & Adema, F., 2016, Notes on Malesian Fabaceae (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) 16. The genus Mucuna, Blumea 61 (2), pp. 90-124 : 106

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11. Mucuna diabolica Backer View in CoL

Mucuna diabolica Backer View in CoL in Keuchenius (1924) 33; K. Heyne (1927) 824; Backer & Bakh.f. (1964) 629. — Neotype (here designated by Adema): Backer 2487 (L2054767), Java, Besoeki, N-helling van de Idjen boven Bajeman, 600–700 m, 18 June 1918.

Stizolobium forbesii Piper (1917) View in CoL 61. — Mucuna forbesii (Piper) Backer (1945) View in CoL 515. — Type: Forbes 3320B (K), Timor laut, Nov. 1883.

Distribution — Malesia: Java; Celebes; Lesser Sunda Islands: Sumbawa, Flores, Lombok, Alor, Timor.

Habitat & Ecology — Forest, monsoon forest, shrubbery, village margin. Soil: clay, loam. Altitude 150–1200 m. Flowering: March, May to July; fruiting: June, August.

Note — Young pods are ± S-shaped, mature ones are nearly straight. When Backer described M. diabolica he was unaware of the earlier published name Stizolobium forbesii Piper. Later he probably found this name and in 1945 he made a new combination for the species as M. forbesii (Piper) Backer. However , he clearly missed the name M. forbesii Baker f. (see M. platyphylla ) which was published in 1923. At the moment Backer transferred Stizolobium forbesii Piper to Mucuna there was already M. forbesii Baker f. blocking the use of Piper’s epithet in Mucuna and the species has to be called M. diabolica . In Backer’s original description of M. diabolica no specimens were cited. In L there is only one specimen collected by Backer on Java available. This specimen is selected as neotype.