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Mucuna bennettii

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

F. J. Mueller

Common Names

• Bennett's Mucuna
• New Guinea Creeper
• Flame of the Forest Creeper
• Mucuna Vine
• Red Jade-vine
• Damala (Papua New Guinea)

Geographical Habitats

• Sulawesi - Indonesia
• Papua New Guinea
• Solomon Islands
• Vanuatu

Natural Habitats

• Littoral rain forest

Flowering Times

• Aug (Solomon Islands)

Fruiting Times

Woody-stemmed evergreen climber with glabrous trifoliolate leaves, leaflets to 130mm x 70mm glabrous above pilose beneath. Lateral panicles or racemes to 450mm of 139mm orange scarlet flowers to 60mm long on last year's wood, pubescent calyx with irritating hairs, calyx tube 6mm long with lobes 2mm long, red petals 35mm x 25mm

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Herklots 1976
• van der Spuy 1976
• Huxley 1992
• RHS A-Z
• Mobot
• Llamas 2003
• Bodkin
• FOSi
• The Plant List 2
• JAA
• GBS