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Mucuna bracteata grows in a warm and humid ecosystem, at a temperature of about 20-35 degrees Celsius, and consistent annual rainfall. Originating in the North Eastern areas of India, M. bracteata has been introduced into Hevea rubber plantations in India and oil palm plantations in Malaysia. [1]
Mucuna is a genus of around 114 accepted species of climbing lianas (vines) and shrubs of the family Fabaceae: tribe Phaseoleae, typically found in tropical and subtropical forests in the Americas, sub-Saharan Africa, southern, southeastern, and eastern Asia, New Guinea, Australia, and the Pacific Islands.
Mucuna pruriens is a tropical legume native to Africa and tropical Asia and widely naturalized and cultivated. [2] Its English common names include monkey tamarind , velvet bean , Bengal velvet bean , Florida velvet bean , Mauritius velvet bean , Yokohama velvet bean , cowage , cowitch , lacuna bean , and Lyon bean . [ 2 ]
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Flemingia is a genus of plants in the family Fabaceae.It is native sub-Saharan Africa, Yemen, tropical Asia, and Australasia. [1] In Asia the species are distributed in Bhutan, Burma, China, India; Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam.
The erect, perennial shrub grows 1.5 m to 2 m tall. [3] The leaves are ovate to oblong with pinnate venation and wavy margins. It flowers from October to December. [4] Each small, white pea-shaped flower is enclosed by a pair of reniform flower bracts.
Mucuna interrupta is a species of SE Asian vine plants in the family Fabaceae, first described by François Gagnepain in 1914. [2] According to Plants of the World Online there are no subspecies (but note the species names, including Mucuna nigricans , brought to synonymy); the native range is Bhutan to China (Yunnan) and Indochina .
The word mucuna is the vernacular name for Mucuna urens in an indigenous language of Brazil, and in 1763 this word was chosen by the French botanist Michel Adanson in his Familles naturelles des plantes to be the generic epithet for this genus of legumes, [3] [4] although M. urens was itself known as Dolichos urens until being transferred to Mucuna many years later.