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Mucuna rostrata

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

Bentham

Common Names

• Gallito
• Alwande

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• Bolivia
• Acre
• Amapá
• Amazonas
• Pará - Brazil
• Colombia
• Galapagos - Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Honduras
• Guatemala
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Riverside
• scrubland
• woodland
• shrubland
• riverine forest

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• Apr
• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• Apr
• Aug
• Dec

High-climbing brown-hairy liana with glabrate stems. Strigillose or glabrate leaves, leaflets to 100mm x 7mm. Pendent racemes of 82mm yellow or orange aging red flowers with bright yellow keel to 50mm or longer. Brown fruit covered in urticating hairs

Further References

• Herklots 1976
• Mobot
• Neotrop
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• ILDIS
• FOPE