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Mucuna interrupta

Mucuna interrupta
Photo: Forest and Kim Starr, CC BY 2.0
Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Climber
Native range
Bhutan to China (Yunnan) and Indo-China
Climate
wet tropical

About

Mucuna interrupta is a species of SE Asian vine plants in the family Fabaceae, first described by François Gagnepain in 1914. According to Plants of the World Online there are no subspecies (but note the species names, including Mucuna nigricans, brought to synonymy); the native range is Bhutan to China (Yunnan) and Indochina.

Other Mucuna plants

New Guinea Creeper · Mucuna bracteata · Mucuna flagellipes · Seabean · Hamburger Bean · Mucuna monosperma · Mucuna paniculata · Cowitch · Mucuna sanjappae · Oxeye bean · Mucunas

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Mucuna interrupta by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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