Mucuna urens (L.)

Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part D), Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum, pp. 474-489 : 485

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Dolichos urens Linnaeus View in CoL , Systema Naturae, ed. 10, 2: 1162. 1759.

["Habitat in America meridionali."] Sp. Pl., ed. 2, 2: 1020 (1763). RCN: 5338.

Lectotype (Verdcourt inTurland & Jarvis in Taxon 46: 469. 1997): [icon] " Phaseolus Americanus frutescens, foliis glabris, lobis pluribus, villosis, pungentibus, fructu orbiculari, plano, hilo nigro, tanquam annulo, totum fere ambiente" in Plukenet, Phytographia: t. 213, f. 2. 1692; Almag. Bot.: 292. 1696. - Voucher: Herb. Sloane 97: 86 ( BM-SL) .

Current name: Mucuna urens (L.) View in CoL DC. ( Fabaceae : Faboideae ).

Note: Although Howard (Fl. Lesser Antilles 4: 510. 1988) indicated Plukenet material in Herb. Sloane as “type”, this was never seen by Linnaeus and is not original material for the name.