Mucuna curranii Elmer

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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https://doi.org/10.3767/000651916X692799

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scientific name

Mucuna curranii Elmer
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10. Mucuna curranii Elmer View in CoL

Mucuna curranii Elmer (1907) View in CoL 230; Merr. (1910) 116; (1923) 308; Wilmot-Dear (1991b) 231. — Type: Elmer 8442 (A,BO,F, K,L, NY,PNH†), Luzon, Benguet, Baguio.

Distribution — Malesia: Philippines: Luzon.

Habitat & Ecology — Soil: limestone. Altitude 1600 m. Flowering: January to March, December; fruiting: March to July. Altitude 1300–2200 m. According to Merrill (1923: 308) in ravines and thickets.

Note — Closely resembling M. longipedunculata from which it differs in pod characters: flattened with wings along the sutures and oblique lamellae in M. curranii , almost cylindrical, without wings and lamellae in M. longipedunculata . The type specimen (Elmer 8442) is probably a fruiting specimen. To the Kew and Leiden duplicates some (dissected) flowers are added, may be from another specimen.

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Fabales

Family

Fabaceae

Genus

Mucuna

Loc

Mucuna curranii Elmer

Wiriadinata, H., Ohashi, H. & Adema, F. 2016
2016
Loc

Mucuna curranii

Elmer 1907
1907
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