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The genus Mucuna is in the family Leguminosae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Mucuna

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See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Mucuna acuminata Baker	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna amblyodon Harms	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna argyrophylla Standl.	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna atropurpurea (Roxb.) Wight & Arn.	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna aurea C.B.Rob.	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna bennettii F.Muell.	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna biplicata Kurz	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna birdwoodiana Tutcher	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna bracteata DC.	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna calophylla W.W.Sm.	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna canaliculata Verdc.	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna championii Benth.	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna coriacea Baker	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna curranii Elmer	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna cyclocarpa F.P.Metcalf	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna diabolica Keuchenius	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna diplax Wilmot-Dear	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna discolor Merr. & L.M.Perry	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna elliptica (Ruiz & Pav.) DC.	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna fawcettii Urb.	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna ferox Verdc.	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna flagellipes Hook.f.	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna gigantea (Willd.) DC.	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna glabrialata (Hauman) Verdc.	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna gracilipes Craib	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna hainanensis Hayata	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna holtonii (Kuntze) Moldenke	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna hooglandii Verdc.	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna huberi Ducke	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna humblotii Drake	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna imbricata Baker	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna interrupta Gagnep.	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna killipiana Hern.Cam. & C.Barbosa	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna lamellata Wilmot-Dear	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna lamii Verdc.	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna lane-poolei Summerh.	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna longipedunculata Merr.	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna macmillanii Elmer	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna macrobotrys Hance	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna macrocarpa Wall.	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna macroceratides (Raddi) DC.	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna macrophylla Miq.	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna macropoda Baker f.	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna manongarivensis Du Puy & Labat	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna mapirensis (Rusby) J.F.Macbr.	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna melanocarpa A.Rich.	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna membranacea Hayata	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna mindorensis Merr.	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna mitis (Ruiz & Pav.) DC.	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna mollis (Kunth) DC.	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna mollissima Kurz	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna monosperma Wight	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna mutisiana (Kunth) DC.	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna nigricans (Lour.) Steud.	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna novo-guineensis Scheff.	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna oligoplax Wilmot-Dear	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna pachycarpa Wiriad.	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna pacifica Hosok.	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna pallida Cordem.	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna paniculata Baker	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna platyphylla A.Gray	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna platyplekta Quisumb. & Merr.	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna pluricostata Barb.Rodr.	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna poggei Taub.	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna pruriens (L.) DC.	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna psittacina Miers	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna reptans Verdc.	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna reticulata Burck	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna revoluta Wilmot-Dear	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna rostrata Benth.	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna samarensis Merr.	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna schlechteri Harms	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna sempervirens Hemsl.	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna sloanei Fawc. & Rendle	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna stanleyi C.T.White	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna stans Baker	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna stenoplax Wilmot-Dear	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna terrens H.Lev.	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna thailandica Niyomdham & Wilmot-Dear	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna tomentosa K.Schum.	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna urens (L.) Medik.	Accepted		ILDIS
Mucuna warburgii K.Schum. & Lauterb.	Accepted		ILDIS

Statistics

The Plant List includes 235 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Mucuna. Of these 82 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 26 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Mucuna. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 235 species names for the genus Mucuna recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	82	34.9%
◕	Synonym	110	46.8%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	43	18.3%

All names

The status of the 261 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Mucuna recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	92	35.2%
◕	Synonym	125	47.9%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	44	16.9%

Of these names,

• 5 are recorded as a spelling variant

A further 14 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 235 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Mucuna, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	78	92	0	0	170	72.3%
	Medium confidence	0	15	0	0	15	6.4%
	Low confidence	4	3	0	43	50	21.3%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Mucuna, are as follows: