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Mucuna urens

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(Linnaeus) Medikus

Common Names

• Horse-eye Bean
• Cow-itch plant
• Sea Bean
• Sheep's-eye
• Ox-eye Bean (Jamaica)
• Tortera
• Mato
• Pica-pica
• Yeux de Bourique (Haiti)
• Torteza (Dominican Republic)
• Fogarate
• Guaimate
• Ojo De Buey

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Bahia
• Goiás
• Minas Gerais
• Pará
• Paraná
• Piaui
• Roraima
• Santa Catarina
• São Paulo - Brazil
• Cayman Islands
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• French Guiana
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Hispaniola
• Jamaica
• Leeward Islands
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru
• Puerto Rico
• Suriname
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Venezuela
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• savanna
• wooded mountains
• riverside
• shrubland.

Flowering Times

• Jul-Nov (Nicaragua)
• Oct-Apr (Puerto Rico)

Fruiting Times

• Oct-Jan (Nicaragua)
• Feb (Puerto Rico)

Large high-climbing glabrous woody liana. Trifoliolate glabrous leaves with puberulent venation beneath. Pseudo-racemes of bright yellow tinged red or purple-blue flowers to 60mm long, pubescent calyx 10mm x 10mm with teeth to 4mm long, standard 40mm long, violet-pink wings, yellowish keel shorter than wings. Fruit a flat woody pod to 230mm long x 60mm covered in irritating yellowish brown hairs with many transverse ridges & 2 narrow wings.

Further References

• Sturtevant 1919
• Mobot
• FOH
• Neotrop
• FB
• APDC
• The Plant List 2
• VOPR
• Botanicus
• ILDIS
• FOPE
• SAFIO