Taxon:  Mucuna pruriens (L.) DC. var. utilis (Wall. ex Wight) Baker ex Burck (Mucuna pruriens Utilis Group)



Summary
Genus:
Mucuna
Family:
Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae)
Subfamily:
Faboideae
Tribe:
Phaseoleae
Nomen number:
310522
Place of publication:
Ann. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg 11:187.  1893
Comment:
[or M. pruriens Utilis Group]
Verified:
09/23/1986 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0 (0  active, 0  available) in Nordic Baltic Genebanks. 
Other conspecific taxa
Mucuna pruriens (L.) DC. (0 active accession[s])
Mucuna pruriens (L.) DC. var. hirsuta (Wight & Arn.) Wilmot-Dear (0 active accession[s])
Mucuna pruriens (L.) DC. var. pruriens (0 active accession[s])
Mucuna pruriens (L.) DC. var. sericophylla (Perkins) Wilmot-Dear (0 active accession[s])
Reference(s)
  1. Adam, J.-G. 1971-. Flore descriptive des monts Nimba.
  2. duCellier, J. 1999. pers. comm. Note: re. common names
  3. Duke, J. A. 1981. Handbook of legumes of world economic importance
  4. Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds. 1997. Auxiliary plants. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 11:199-203.
  5. Graham, E. H. 1941. Legumes for erosion control and wildlife. USDA Misc. Publ. 412. Note: = Mucuna deeringiana
  6. Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long. 1984-. Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim.
  7. Howard, R. 1974-1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles.
  8. Huang, S. F. & T. C. Huang. 1987. Taxonomic treatment of the Papilionoideae (Leguminosae) of Taiwan. Taiwania 32:11-117.
  9. Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening
  10. International Seed Testing Association. 1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
  11. Jardim e Museu Agricola do Ultramar, Portugal. 1971-1973. Flora da Guine Portuguesa.
  12. Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. A concise dictionary of plants cultivated in the United States and Canada Note: = Mucuna deeringiana
  13. Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2
  14. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
  15. Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
  16. Sathynarayana, N. et al. 2016. Role of genetic resources and molecular markers in Mucuna pruriens (L.) DC improvement. Pl. Genet. Resources Charact. Util. 14:270-282.
  17. Smith, A. C. 1979-1991. Flora vitiensis nova.
  18. Verdcourt, B. 1979. A manual of New Guinea legumes.
  19. Wilmot-Dear, C. M. 1984. A revision of Mucuna (Leguminosae-Phaseoleae) in China and Japan. Kew Bull. 39:63.
  20. Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition).
Common names
LANGUAGENAMEALTERNATE NAMENOTESEQCITATION
English Bengal velvet-bean 1 Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
English cowage velvet-bean 1 Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
English Florida velvet-bean as M. deeringiana 1 Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. A concise dictionary of plants cultivated in the United States and Canada Note: = Mucuna deeringiana
English lacuna-bean via email on 12 Jul 1999 1 duCellier, J. 1999. pers. comm. Note: re. common names
English Lyon-bean 1 Duke, J. A. 1981. Handbook of legumes of world economic importance
English Mauritius velvet-bean 1 Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
English velvet-bean 1 Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
English Yokohama velvet-bean 1 Duke, J. A. 1981. Handbook of legumes of world economic importance
Italian stizolobia 2 International Seed Testing Association. 1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
Spanish guisante negro 2 Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Transcribed Chinese li dou 2 Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition).
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
2Cultivated    cult. worldwide
Cultivated (cult. worldwide)
Economic Uses
UsageTypeNoteReference
Animal foodforage Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2
Bee plantshoney production Graham, E. H. 1941. Legumes for erosion control and wildlife. USDA Misc. Publ. 412. Note: = Mucuna deeringiana
Environmentalornamental Duke, J. A. 1981. Handbook of legumes of world economic importance
Environmentalsoil improver Duke, J. A. 1981. Handbook of legumes of world economic importance
Human foodpulse Duke, J. A. 1981. Handbook of legumes of world economic importance
Medicinessource of L-dopaas Mucuna deeringianaFarnsworth, N. R. & D. D. Soejarto. 1988. Global importance of medicinal plants (unpublished draft manuscript rev. 23)
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2024. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://nordic-baltic-genebanks.org/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=310522. Accessed 7 July 2024.