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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Mucuna

Hierarchical position of the Genus Mucuna

Regnum  Plantae common name: The plant kingdom       Divisio  Magnoliophyta Cronquist syn. Angiospermophyta / Anthophyta pub. Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: angiosperms, flowering plants       Subdivisio  Magnoliophytina Frohne & U. Jensen ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: Angiosperms       Classis  Rosopsida Batsch pub. Dispos. Gen. Pl. Jenens.: 28. 1788.       Subclassis  Rosidae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 264. Jan-Mar 1967.       SuperOrdo  Fabanae R. Dahlgren ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 74: 179. 25 Mar 1993.       Ordo  Fabales Bromhead pub. Edinburgh New Philos. J. 25: 126. Jul 1838. common name: legumes       Familia  Fabaceae Lindl. pub. Intr. Nat. Syst. Bot., ed. 2: 148. Jul 1836. common name: Leguminosae       Familia  Leguminosae Juss. pub. Gen. Pl.: 345. 4 Aug 1789, nom. cons.       Genus  Mucuna Adans. common name: mucuna

Named members of the Genus Mucuna

1	Species  aterrima (Piper & Tracy) Holland syn. Mucuna pruriens var. utilis
2	Species  deeringiana (Bort) Merr. syn. Mucuna pruriens var. utilis
3	Species  gigantea (Willd.) DC. common name: seabean
4	Species  pruriens (L.) DC.
	5    Varietas  pruriens common name: cowitch 6    Varietas  utilis (Wallich ex Wight) Baker ex Burck common name: cowitch
7	Species  rostrata Benth. common name: mucuna
8	Species  sloanei Fawcett & Rendle common name: horseeye bean
9	Species  urens (L.) Medik. common name: oxeye bean

Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.

For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.