Mucuna holtonii: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Fabales
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Genus
- Mucuna
- Species
- Mucuna holtonii
- Scientific Name
- Mucuna holtonii
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Mucuna holtonii
Mucuna holtonii is a species of plant in the bean family, which is pollinated by bats. Bats are able to detect if the flowers have nectar using echolocation. After an initial bat visit during which nectar is removed, the petals are arranged in a different manner (altering the shape of the flower). As a result, the unique "echo fingerprint" of petal arrangement informs the bat whether nectar is present or absent.
It is thought that the plant evolved acoustically conspicuous structures to make them easier to detect by glossophagine bats.
...Images from inaturalist.org observations:
We recommend you sign up for this excellent, free service.
Parent Taxon
Sibling 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


































