Published January 25, 2022 | Version v1
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Mucuna (Stizolobium) Baker 1876

  • 1. Key Laboratory of Biodiversity Conservation in Southwest China, National Forestry and Grassland Administration, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming, Yunnan 650224, China & Ningbo Botanical Garden, Ningbo, Zhejiang 315201, China & kevinchiangensis @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 5917 - 1846
  • 2. Key Laboratory of Biodiversity Conservation in Southwest China, National Forestry and Grassland Administration, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming, Yunnan 650224, China & tianbin @ swfu. edu. cn; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2325 - 724 X
  • 3. Center for Integrative Conservation, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla, Yunnan 666303, China & Center of Conservation Biology, Core Botanical Gardens, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla, Yunnan 666303, China & University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China & pb @ xtbg. org. cn; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 0038 - 9664

Description

Key to the Chinese taxa of Mucuna subg. Stizolobium:

1. Pods curved into S shape....................................................................................................................................................................2

1. Pods straight or slightly irregular curved, but never curved into S shape..........................................................................................3

2. Pods usually without irritant bristles................................................................................................................. M. pruriens var. utilis

2. Pods densely covered with irritant hairs...................................................................................................... M. pruriens var. pruriens

3. The lower part of the inflorescence bears many flowerless nodes with scars and persistent bracts............................... M. bracteata

3. Bracts all caducous, never persistent on the lower part of inflorescence....................................................... M. pruriens var. hirsuta

Notes

Published as part of Jiang, Kai-Wen, Tian, Bin & Pan, Bo, 2022, Legume additions to the flora of China, pp. 1-21 in Phytotaxa 532 (1) on page 13, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.532.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5900839

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Baker
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Order
Fabales
Family
Fabaceae
Genus
Mucuna
Taxon rank
subGenus
Taxonomic concept label
Mucuna (Stizolobium) Baker, 1876 sec. Jiang, Tian & Pan, 2022