Mucuna pruriens var. utilis

虎爪豆

naturalized

Mucuna pruriens (L.) DC. var. utilis (Wall. ex Wight) Burck

名彙資訊

特徵描述

典藏標本

數位照片

分布位置

相關資訊

名彙資訊

學名發表文獻

Burck, Annales du Jardin Botanique de Buitenzorg 11: 187. 1893. (Ann. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg)

台灣首次記錄發表文獻

Ohashi, Tateishi, Huang & Chen, The science reports of the Tohoku Imperial University. Fourth Series, Biology 38: 322. 1984. (Sci. Rep. Tohoku Univ. 4. Biol.)

異名

Mucuna capitata Wight & Arn.

Matsum., The Journal of the College of Science, Imperial University of Tokyo, Japan 12: 420. 1899. (J. Coll. Sci. Univ. Tokyo)
Stizolobium hassjoo Piper & Tracy

Chuang & Huang, The Leguminosae of Taiwan for pasture and soil improvement 93. 1965. (Leg. Taiwan past.)

各語言俗名

中

黎豆. 富貴豆.
英

Yokohama bean.

參考文獻

Wu, Yang, Teng, Chang, Yang and Hsieh, Taiwania 55(2): 151. 2010.
Lu, Ou & Lu, Illustrations of Trees of Taiwan 2: 117. 1998. (Ill. Tr. Taiwan)

特徵描述

生活型

herb

形態特徵

A twining herb, up to 15 m long.
Leaves trifoliolate; terminal leaflets ovate, acute at apex and at base, membranaceous, 10–14 cm long, 7–10 cm wide, the lateral ones strongly oblique.
Flowers white or purple, in axillary raceme, 4–5 cm long.
Pods pubescent, linear, up to 15 cm long.

分布

台灣 : Cultivated and escaped in wasteland, roadside, at elevation below 700 m high, spreading in central and southern parts.
世界 : Cultivated in tropics.