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Mucuna bracteata
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Family:
FABACEAE/LEGUMINOSAE (Subfam.: Papilionoideae)
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Citation: Mucuna bracteata DC. ex Kurz, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 42: 231. 1873; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 2: 186. 1876; Sanjappa, Legumes Ind. 216. 1992.
Mucuna exserta Clake ex C.E.C. Fisch., Kew Bull. 1925: 5. 1925.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Thottapayar
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
Mucuna
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Description:
Climbing shrubs; young parts grey pubescent. Leaves alternate, trifoliolate, up to 25 cm long; leaflets 6.5-15 x 5-12 cm, laterals obliquely ovate or deltoid, terminal ovate-rhomboid, acute or subacute, base rounded, truncate, glabrous or glabrescent above, adpressed pubescent beneath. Racemes up to 16 cm long; flowers blackish purple, 3.5-4.5 cm long; bracts ovate extending to the peduncle. Calyx-tube campanulate; two upper teeth quite connate; lowest longer than the middle ones. Petals much exserted; standard not more than half as long as the rostrate keel, which usually a little exceeds the wings. Stamens diadelphous; anthers dimorphous. Ovary sessile, many-ovuled; style incurved, beardless; stigma capitate. Pods 8-10 x 1.5-2.5 cm, grayish-brown, tomentose, hairs itching; seeds 4 or 5.
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Habit:
Climber
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Flowering & Fruiting:
January-April
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District(s):
All Districts
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Grown as cover crop in rubber plantations
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Distribution:
India and Myanmar
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Aquatic:
No
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Epiphyte(s):
No
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Saprophyte:
No
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Stem parasite:
No
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Root parasite:
No
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Flower colour(s):
Brown, Pink
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
No
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Garden:
No
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Edible:
No
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Vegetable:
No
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Endemic to:
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
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