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Mucuna sempervirens

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

Hemsley

Common Names

• Chang chun you ma teng (Pinyin)
• Aira-tobi-kazura (Japan)

Geographical Habitats

• Bhutan
• Fujian
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Guizhou
• Hubei
• Hunan
• Jiangxi
• Shaanxi
• Sichuan
• Yunnan
• Zhejiang - China
• Assam - India
• Kyushu - Japan
• Myanmar

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• shrubland
• riverside
• thickets
• montane slopes
• montane forest.

Flowering Times

• Apr-Jul (China)
• May (Japan)

Fruiting Times

• Aug-Nov (China)

Large evergreen woody liana with glabrous branchlets, 3-foliolate coriaceous glabrous leaves, terminal leaflet to 150mm x 80mm. Cauliflorous racemes to 360mm long with sparse stinging hairs, 80mm deep purple flowers, toothed calyx with velvety stinging hairs, keel to 80mm long, woody pod to 600mm long x 35mm, brown to brown-black covered in dense red-brown hairs & bristles, inflated on seeds

Further References

• Huxley 1992
• Mobot
• FOC
• Chujian 2001
• The Plant List 2
• Fedde
• FOJ