Mucuna urens

Rauber, Cristiane Ritter, Lima, Laura Cristina Pires, Caxambu, Marcelo Galeazzi & Temponi, Lívia Godinho, 2021, Synopsis of Leguminosae from Iguaçu National Park, Paraná, Brazil, Phytotaxa 501 (2), pp. 245-280 : 266

45. Mucuna urens (L.) Medikus (1787: 399). ( Fig. 6I and J – Fig. 7F )

Distribution: Widely distributed in the Neotropics, occurring in the Caribbean islands and from Honduras to Brazil ( Moura et al. 2013); in Brazil it occurs in states of all regions ( Flora do Brasil 2020). In ParNa Iguaçu it occurs in the Foz do Iguaçu area.

Reproductive period: According to Moura et al. (2013) it is found in flower and fruit from October to July. In ParNa Iguaçu it was found in flower in January and April.

Diagnostic characteristics: Lianas with 3-foliolate leaves, pendent inflorescences from the forest canopy and greenish-burgundy petals.

Conservation: Native-NE.

Selected examined material: BRAZIL. Paraná: Foz do Iguaçu , 18 May 2019, (fl.), C.R. Rauber et al. 405 ( UNOP) .

Figures

FIGURE 6.A:Lonchocarpus cultratus, flower; Band C:Machaerium hirtum:B: branch withinflorescence;C:fruit;D: Macropsychanthus violaceus, flower; E and F: Macroptilium erythroloma: E: inflorescence; F: infructescence; G and H: Mimosa pigra: G: branch with inflorescence; H: infructescence; I and J: Mucuna urens: I: branch with inflorescence; J: inflorescence; K: Parapiptadenia rigida, branch with fruit; L: Schnella microstachya, fruit. (Rauber CR 2018)

FIGURE 7. A: Machaerium paraguariense, branch; B: Machaerium stipitatum, branch with fruit; C: Mimosa bimucronata, branch with fruit; D: Mimosa candollei, fruit; E: Mimosa prionopus, fruit; F: Mucuna urens, fruit; G: Muellera campestris, branch with inflorescence; H: Myrocarpus frondosus, branch with inflorescence; I: Nissolia brasiliensis, branch with flower and fruit; J: Peltophorum dubium, fruit.