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Mucuna gigantea subsp. gigantea

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Rosids Order: Fabales Family: Fabaceae Genus: Mucuna

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Large, woody lianas.

Stems: Stems high–climbing or sprawling, 8–15(–80) m long.

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves compound. Alternate. Leaflets broadly elliptic or ovate, 4–13 cm long, 2.5–7.5 cm wide. Surfaces glabrous or glabrate. Leaflet margins entire. Petiolate. Stipules caducous. Leaflets stipellate.

Flowers: Flowers pseudoracemes short, corymbose, pendulous on a long peduncle, bracts and bracteoles fugacious, bracts up to 7 mm long, bracteoles up to 14 mm long. Flowers papilionaceous. Calyx campanulate, bilabiate. Corolla yellowish green, 3–4.5 cm long, showy, variously colored, standard shorter than other petals, wings incurved, stiffened at apex. Stamens 10; upper stamen distinct, the other 9 connate into a tube; anthers, dimorphic, 5 larger ones subbasifixed, alternating with 5 shorter anthers. Ovary superior, apical; ovules few; style 1, filiform, glabrous apically; stigma small, terminal.

Fruit: Pods. Seeds 2–3(4); brown; brown mottled with black; or rarely entirely black; discoid; 2–3 cm long; 1.8–2.5 cm wide.

Ploidy:

Habitat: Sprawling over rocks; shrubs; and trees usually near the ocean or streams.

Elevation Range: 0–310 m.

Historical Distribution

Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Statewide Status

Indigenous

Island Status

Kaua'i Indigenous
O'ahu Indigenous
Molokai Indigenous
Kamole(Laysan Island) Indigenous
Maui Indigenous
Hawai'i Indigenous

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Bibliography

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:688 (K, O, Mo, M, H [as Mucuna gigantea]); Wilmot-Dear 1990:5 (KEY)/Wagner & Herbst 1995:21 (NOM:Haw'n material recognized as subsp. gigantea); Moura et al 2012:840 (KEY); Wiriadinata et al 2016:108 (DESCR, KEY)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Scientific Name Authorship Locality Habitat Basis of Record Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
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