Mucuna paniculata Baker

! T.M. Moura
Jan. 2020
FLORA OF MADAGASCAR
Mucuna paniculata Baker
E Madagascar, Toamasina (Tamatave) Province,
Cap Masoala, SE of Maroansetra, NW area
of the peninsula, East of Hiaraka.
Disturbed and cut area with Zingiberaceae, some
cultivated cloves, vanilla, coffee, on steep bank of
red-lateritic soil.
Alt. 100 m
Climbing shrub with twining stems, reaching c. 8 m
tall. Leaves mid-green, shortly acuminate.
Inflorescences long, pendulous, with a cluster of
fruits near the apex. Fruits ± oblong, flat, dark
brown, with a prominent wing around the sutures
and numerous wing-like flanges over the surfaces,
interspersed with numerous stiff red-brown bristles.
Seeds sub-spherical, somewhat compressed, uniform
dark brown, with a long dark hilum.
D.J. & B.P. Du Puy
23.4.89
M210
04810477