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Mucuna monosperma

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

Roxburgh ex Wight

Common Names

• Malantelli
• Malanteli
• Khatavangi
• Negro Bean
• Baldhregra (Nepalese)
• Ma Ba Lai (Chiang Mai)
• Ma Mui Yai (C. Thailand)
• Saba Ling Lai
• Myauk-do (Myanmar)
• Myauk-go-nyin (Myanmar)

Geographical Habitats

• India
• Sri Lanka
• Myanmar
• Thailand

Natural Habitats

• Thickets
• disturbed forest
• clearings.

Flowering Times

• Nov-Jan (India)

Fruiting Times

Large hairy rarely glabrescent red-brown hairy woody perennial twining shrub with axillary racemes to 60mm long, corolla purple, standard 25mm, wings to 45mm, foetid, densely ferrugineus-brown winged pod to 75mm long x 50mm with irritating intertwined bristles, leaflets glabrous above

Further References

• Sturtevant 1919
• JDH
• The Plant List 2
• J.S. Gamble
• BF
• Thai F
• USNH
• Botanicus