Mucuna ferox Verdc.

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Status: Native
Description:
Robust climber or liane, older stems woody. Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets rhombic or ovate, up to 12 × 11 cm, appressed hairy above, densely silvery velvety below. Inflorescences axillary, pendulous many-flowered racemes, up to 25 cm long; peduncle 15-18 cm long. Calyx velvety and with golden-brown irritant bristles. Flowers greenish-white. Pods up to 13 × 2.5 cm, more or less S-shaped or curved, densely covered in orange-brown, highly irritant bristly hairs, readily dehiscent.
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Derivation of specific name: ferox: very prickly, ferocious
Habitat: In montane evergreen forest margins.
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Worldwide distribution: Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.
Malawi distribution: N
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Literature:

Mackinder, B. et al. (2001). Papilionoideae Flora Zambesiaca 3(5) Pages 17 - 19. (Includes a picture).

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.

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Flora of Mozambique: Mucuna ferox
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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Mucuna ferox
African Plant Database: Mucuna ferox
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Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2014-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Malawi: Species information: Mucuna ferox.
https://www.malawiflora.com/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=131530, retrieved 29 March 2024

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