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Mucuna sloanei
Mucuna sloanei
- Botanic Family
- Leguminosae
- Author
- Fawcett & Rendle
Common Names
- Ojo de Venado
- Matos
- Matos del Monte
- Ojo de Buey
- Yeux-bourrique
- Asses Eyes
- Ox-eye-bean
- Yeux de Bourique (Antigua)
- Uña de Tigre (Costa Rica)
- Tsugi-kar (Cabécara)
- Kook-tsa-kúp (Brunka)
- Kuá (Térraba)
Geographical Habitats
- Angola
- N. Argentina
- Bolivia
- Brazil
- Cayman Islands
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Hispaniola
- Honduras
- Jamaica
- Leeward Islands
- Lesser Antilles
- S. Mexico
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Peru
- Puerto Rico
- Trinidad & Tobago
- Venezuela
- Windward Islands
Natural Habitats
- Riverside
- forests
- floodplain forest
- forest edge
Flowering Times
Fruiting Times
Tall twining liana with hispid stems. Trifoliolate leaves strigulose above, silvery-pubescent beneath. Axillary pseudo-racemes or umbels of flowers white or yellow 50mm long, standard to 40mm long, wings edged red, wings & keel longer. Spiny fruit to 180mm long x 50mm with urticating hairs.
Further References
- Herklots 1976
- Mobot
- Neotrop
- APDC
- The Plant List 2
- VOPR
- Botanicus
- JAA
- Smithsonian
- FOPE
- SAFIO
- Standley