Mucuna pesa
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Photo: Bart Wursten
Below Mt Namuli, Mozambique.
Photo: Bart Wursten
Below Mt Namuli, Mozambique.
Photo: Bart Wursten
Below Mt Namuli, Mozambique.
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| Synonyms: |
Mucuna poggei Taub. var. pesa (De Wild.) Verdc. |
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Robust climber or liane, older stems woody, up to 20 cm in diameter. Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets rhombic, ovate or obovate, up to 19 × 15 cm, sparsely appressed hairy above, densely grey hairy below. Inflorescences axillary, pendulous many-flowered racemes, up to 30 cm long; peduncle up to 20 cm long. Calyx densely velvety and covered with orange-red irritant bristly hairs. Flowers c. 5 cm long, greenish-white to yellowish. Pods up to 20 cm long, somewhat flattened, densely covered in orange-brown, highly irritant hairs, indehiscent. |
| Type location: |
DRC, Katanga |
| Notes: | Note: in flower this taxon is almost indistinguishable from Mucuna ferox, which can be found in the same areas and habitats. In fruit, that species has narrower pods, which are readily dehiscent. |
| Derivation of specific name: | |
| Habitat: | In Brachystegia-Uapaca woodland and riverine and evergreen forest margins. |
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| Worldwide distribution: | DRC, Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe. |
| FZ divisions: | Z,T,MS |
| Growth form(s): | Climber, liane. |
| Endemic status: | |
| Red data list status: | |
| Insects associated with this species: | |
| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Images last updated: | Sunday 12 October 2008 |
| Literature: |
Baumann, G. (2005). Photographic Guide to Wildflowers of Malawi Wildlife and Environmental Society of Malawi Pages 40 - 41. as Mucuna poggei var. pesa (Includes a picture). Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 164. as Mucuna poggei var. pesa Dowsett-Lemaire, F. (1989). The flora and phytogeography of the evergreen forests of Malawi. I: Afromontane and mid-altitude forests; Bull. Jard. Bot. Nat. Belg. 59(1/2) Page 24. As Mucuna poggei Drummond, R.B. (1972). A list of Rhodesian Legumes. Kirkia 8(2) Page 224. as Mucuna poggei var. pesa Drummond, R.B. (1975). A list of trees, shrubs and woody climbers indigenous or naturalised in Rhodesia. Kirkia 10(1) Page 247. as Mucuna poggei var. pesa Mackinder, B. et al. (2001). Papilionoideae Flora Zambesiaca 3(5) Pages 16 - 17. as Mucuna poggei var. pesa Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 50. as Mucuna poggei var. pesa Strugnell, A.M. (2006). A Checklist of the Spermatophytes of Mount Mulanje, Malawi Scripta Botanica Belgica 34 National Botanic Garden of Belgium Page 101. as Mucuna poggei var. pesa |
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