Mucuna pruriens
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BD9E6B-FFDD-5919-FF2B-F142FA247256 |
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Felipe |
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Mucuna pruriens |
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Key to the varieties of Mucuna pruriens View in CoL in India
1a. Pods with dense white, yellow or brownish straight or curved hairs, not glabrescent; hairs rigid, irritant.................. 2
1b. Pods with dense pale appressed silky hairs, later glabrescent; hairs not rigid or irritant ............................................... ............................................................................................... M. pruriens var. utilis (Wall. ex Wight) Baker ex Burck View in CoL
2a. Pods slightly curved at base with white hairs initially, turning brown or even blackish; leaflets subcoriaceous, dorsal and ventral side densely silky hairy throughout....................................................................... M. pruriens var. hirsuta View in CoL
2b. Pods curved, S-shaped with brownish irritant hairs; leaflets membranous, glabrous or rarely hairy on ventral surface only ........................................................................................................................................ M. pruriens var. pruriens View in CoL
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