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Calopogonium mucunoides
Calopogonium mucunoides
- Botanic Family
- Fabaceae
- Author
- Desvaux
Common Names
- Calopo (Australia)
- Fisolilla (USA)
- Mao man dou (Pinyin)
- Calopogonium
Geographical Habitats
- NE. Argentina
- Belize
- Bolivia
- Amazonas
- Bahia
- Ceará
- Pará
- Pernambuco
- Piaui
- Rio de Janeiro
- Rondonia
- Roraima - Brazil
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- French Guiana
- Guatemala
- Guyana
- Hispaniola
- Honduras
- Jamaica
- Leeward Islands
- Mexico
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Puerto Rico
- Suriname
- Venezuela
- Windward Islands
Natural Habitats
- Forest
- disturbed forest
- secondary vegetation
- pasture
- shrubland
- montane shrubland
- riverside shrubs
Flowering Times
- Dec-Mar (Puerto Rico) Apr
- Jun
- Aug (Bolivia)
Fruiting Times
- May
- Aug (Bolivia) Mar (Puerto Rico)
Prostrate or twining densely hairy slightly woody herbaceous climber or creeper with ferrugineous stems. Trifoliolate pubescent leaves to 100mm x 80mm. 200mm axillary pseudo-racemes to 100mm long of up to 6 flowers with bracts 5mm long, calyx to 8mm long, purplish or blue & white flowers, standard 8mm long. Hairy brown fruit slightly curved, flattened, to 40mm x 5mm with long brown bristles.
Frequently naturalised in Tropics, known weed
Forage, green manure, erosion control, food, medicinal
Further References
- Mobot
- Neotrop
- FCP
- FB
- NYBG
- FOC
- FOSi
- The Plant List 2
- VOPR
- ILDIS
- SAFIO