Fabaceae
Mucuna

Mucuna globulifera T.M.Moura, N.Zamora & A.M.G.Azevedo

First published in Kew Bull. 68: 151 (2012)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Costa Rica to Colombia. It is a liana and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome.

Distribution

Native to:

Colombia, Costa Rica, Panamá

Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Bernal, R., Gradstein, R.S. & Celis, M. (eds.) (2016). Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia 1-2: 1-3068. Libro impreso.

Kew Bulletin

  • Agostini, K. (2008). Ecologia da reprodução de duasespécies de Mucuna (Leguminosae, Faboideae, Phaseoleae) — embriologia, citogenética e variabilidadegenética — do litoralnorte de São Paulo. Tese de Doutorado. Instituto de Biologia, UniversidadeEstadual de Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo.
  • De Candolle, A. C. P. de (1825). ProdromusSystematis Naturalis RegniVegetabilis 2. Treuttel & Würtz, Paris, Strasbourg & London.
  • Helversen, D. von & Helversen, O. von (1999). Acoustic guide in bat-pollinated flowers. Nature 398: 759 – 760.
  • IUCN (2001). IUCN Red list categories and criteria: version 3.1. IUCN Species Survival Commission, Gland and Cambridge.
  • Moldenke, H. N. (1933). Studies of new and noteworthy tropical American plants 1. Phytologia 1: 5 – 18.
  • Moura, T. M., Zamora, N. A., Torke, B. M., Mansano, V. F. & Tozzi, A. M. G. A. (2012). A new species of Mucuna (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae-Phaseoleae) from Costa Rica and Panama. Phytotaxa 60: 1 – 8.
  • Ruiz, L. K. (2009). Sinopsis de las especiesColombianas de Mucuna (Leguminosae: Papilionoideae: Phaseoleae). In: E. Forero (ed.), EstúdiosenLeguminosasColombianas II, pp. 387 – 417. Universidade Nacional Colombiana, Bogota.
  • Standley, P. C. (1922). Trees and Shrubs of Mexico 2. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 23: 171 – 515.
  • Tozzi, A. M. G. A., Agostini, K. & Sazima, M. (2005). A new species of MucunaAdans. (Leguminosae, Papilionoideae, Phaseoleae) from southeastern Brazil, with a key to Brazilian species. Taxon 54: 451 – 455.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
  • Zamora, N. (2010). Fabaceae. In, B. E. Hammel, M. H. Grayum, C. Herrera & N. Zamora (eds), Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica. Vol V. Dicotiledóneas (Clusiaceae--Gunneraceae), pp. 395 – 775. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.

Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia

  • Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R. & Celis, M. (eds.). 2015. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. http://catalogoplantasdecolombia.unal.edu.co

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Bernal, R., Gradstein, R.S. & Celis, M. (eds.) (2016). Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia 1-2: 1-3068. Libro impreso.
  • De Moura, T.M., Lewis, G.P., Mansano, V.F. & Tozzi, A.M.G.A. (2018). A revision of the neotropical Mucuna species (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae). Phytotaxa 337: 1-65.

Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia

  • Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R., & Celis, M. (eds.). (2020). Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia. v1.1. Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Dataset/Checklist. https://doi.org/10.15472/7avdhn
  • Diazgranados et al. (2021). Catalogue of plants of Colombia. Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia project. In prep.
  • Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt (2019). Lista de especies vedadas por la resolución 213 de 1977. 8256 especies. http://i2d.humboldt.org.co/ceiba/resource.do?r=le_plantaspriorizadas_2019

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Sources

  • Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia

    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2022 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Bulletin

    • Kew Bulletin
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2022 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia

    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0