CHR 353256 – Mucuna gigantea (Willd.) DC.
Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 353256
Specimen type:
Sheet
Database record added:
03 December 2007
Database record updated:
03 December 2007
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Mucuna gigantea (Willd.) DC.
Determiner:
G.P. Buelow & W.R. Sykes
Identification date:
1978-11-04 (Verbatim: 4/11/1978)
Preferred name:
Mucuna gigantea (Willd.) DC.
Division:
Spermatophyta
Class:
Magnoliopsida
Order:
Fabales
Family:
Fabaceae
Identification type:
Determination
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Vava'u, near Leimatua (road near lagoon)
Verbatim locality:
Vava'u, near Leimatua (road near lagoon)
Verbatim collector:
G.P. Buelow & W.R. Sykes 19
Standardised collector:
G. P. Buelow; William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
4/11/1978
Start date:
1978-11-04
Country:
Tonga
Habitat:
Secondary forest.
Notes:
Vine with woody trunk. Leaflets shining. Flower cluster pendulous. Flowers pale green. Calyx inflated. Standard bent at right angles to wings, latter 3.5cm, depressed in the middle. Specimen unusual because of penduncle arising from young shoot.
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