Calopogonium mucunoides Desv.

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Photo: Bart Wursten
Basoko, Tshopo District, Orientale, DRC. © National Botanic Garden of Belgium

Photo: Bart Wursten
Yangambi, Tshopo District, Orientale, DRC. © National Botanic Garden of Belgium

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Frequency:	Apparently rare as an escape.
Status:	Introduced
Description:	Trailing or twining herb up to several m long, densely covered in long, rusty, spreading hairs. Leaves 3-foliolate with leaflets elliptic, ovate or rhombic-ovate, mostly 4-10 cm long, appressed hairy on both surfaces; petiole 2-16 cm long. Flowers blue to violet, axillary in 1-several c. 6-flowered clusters, together forming an inflorescence 1-10 cm long on a peduncle 0-17 cm long. Pods linear-oblong, 2-4cm long, straight or curved, densely covered in rusty, bristly hairs.
Notes:	Only one collection is known from Malawi of this species as a naturalized escape.
Derivation of specific name:	mucunoides: resembling Mucuna another leguminous genus.
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Worldwide distribution:	Native to tropical Central and South America and widely cultivated as a cover crop in Africa and Asia, often found as a naturalized escape.
Malawi distribution:	N
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Spot characters:	Display spot characters for this species
Content last updated:	Thursday 5 February 2015
Literature:	Mackinder, B. et al. (2001). Papilionoideae Flora Zambesiaca 3(5) Page 62.

Flora of Caprivi: cultivated Calopogonium mucunoides

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