Mucuna longipedunculata Merr.

Wiriadinata, H., Ohashi, H. & Adema, F., 2016, Notes on Malesian Fabaceae (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) 16. The genus Mucuna, Blumea 61 (2), pp. 90-124 : 112

25. Mucuna longipedunculata Merr.

Mucuna longipedunculata Merr.(1905b) 18; (1910) 117;(1923) 308; Wilmot-Dear (1991b) 223, f. 3A–H, 4. — Type: Elmer 6233 (K, NY,PNH†), Luzon, Prov. Benguet, Sablan .

Mucuna macmillanii Elmer (1915) 2736; Wilmot-Dear (1991b) 226. — Type: Elmer 13594 (A, BISH, E, K, L, MO, NEB, NY, PNH†, UC, US), Mindanao, Aguson, Cabadbaran, Mt Urdaneta,

Distribution — Malesia: Philippines: Luzon, Polilo, Catanduanes, Surigao, Biliran, Mindanao.

Habitat & Ecology — Forest along stream, logged forest. Altitude 200– 300 m. Flowering: March to June; fruiting: May, June.

Note — The peduncle of the inflorescence is extremely long, slender and wiry, quite elastic and strong. The branches of the pseudopanicles become shorter upwards, in the apical part they are reduced to brachyblasts. The seeds of the two fruiting specimens seen by us are misshapen (see also Wilmot-Dear 1991b: 223: “seeds …. very misshapen in dry state (?soft in living state)”). From Mindanao M. macmillanii was described which only differs in some measurements most clearly in the smaller bracteoles. Here we unite M. macmillanii with M. longipedunculata .