Mucuna: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Fabales
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Genus
- Mucuna
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Mucuna
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Mucuna
Mucuna is a genus of vines and shrubs of the legume family Fabaceae: tribe Phaseoleae. It has a pan-tropical distribution and contains 112 accepted species as of July 2025. The genus was created in 1763 by French botanist Michel Adanson.
...Mucuna in languages:
- Chinese
- 黎豆屬
- Czech
- Mukuna
- English
- Mucunas
- Japanese
- トビカズラ属
- Swedish
- sammetsbönssläktet
- Thai
- สกุล หมามุ่ย
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
Child Taxa
- Mucuna acuminata
- Mucuna argyrophylla
- Mucuna atropurpurea
- Mucuna bennettii
- Mucuna biplicata
- Mucuna birdwoodiana
- Mucuna bracteata
- Mucuna canaliculata
- Mucuna championii
- Mucuna chiapaneca
- Mucuna coriacea
- Mucuna cuatrecasasii
- Mucuna cyclocarpa
- Mucuna diplax
- Mucuna elliptica
- Mucuna flagellipes
- Mucuna gigantea
- Mucuna glabrialata
- Mucuna globulifera
- Mucuna hainanensis
- Mucuna holtonii
- Mucuna imbricata
- Mucuna interrupta
- Mucuna japira
- Mucuna killipiana
- Mucuna lamellata
- Mucuna laticifera
- Mucuna macrobotrys
- Mucuna macrocarpa
- Mucuna manongarivensis
- Mucuna membranacea
- Mucuna mitis
- Mucuna mollis
- Mucuna monosperma
- Mucuna monticola
- Mucuna mutisiana
- Mucuna nigricans
- Mucuna novoguineensis
- Mucuna occidentalis
- Mucuna paniculata
- Mucuna platyphylla
- Mucuna poggei
- Mucuna pruriens
- Mucuna pseudoelliptica
- Mucuna revoluta
- Mucuna rostrata
- Mucuna sanjappae
- Mucuna sempervirens
- Mucuna sloanei
- Mucuna stans
- Mucuna thailandica
- Mucuna urens
- Mucuna warburgii