Mucuna reptans
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Family Fabaceae
Taxonomy: Mucuna reptans Verdc.
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Mucuna urens var. papuana F.M.Bailey (misapplied)
Distribution (APC): WA, NT
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: NTH_2014 (3), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (19), Sjostrom_2006 (4), WAH_2022_2 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 22 traits from 36 records in 7 datasets.
Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.
flower morphology
- sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
- fruit_length (numerical): 77.5 mm (60-95 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
- fruit_width (numerical): 13 mm (12-14 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
- fruit_type (categorical): legume (2) [sources: NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (2) [sources: NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
- fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1); red (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 100 mm (80-120 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
- leaf_width (numerical): 63.5 mm (44-83 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
- leaf_base_shape (categorical): rounded (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
- plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): climber_herbaceous (2); herb (1) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: NTH_2022; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): prostrate (2) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2]
- leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
- flowering_time (categorical): yyyynnnnnnnn (1) [sources: NTH_2014]
seed morphology
- seed_length (numerical): 9.5 mm (9-10 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
- seed_width (numerical): 8 mm (7-9 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| NTH_2023 | 13 | 19 | D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/. |
| NTH_2022 | 4 | 4 | D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/. |
| Sjostrom_2006 | 4 | 4 | A. Sjöström and C. L. Gross. “Life-history characters and phylogeny are correlated with extinction risk in the Australian angiosperms”. Journal of Biogeography 33.2 (2006), pp. 271-290. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2005.01393.x. |
| NTH_2014 | 3 | 3 | Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online. |
| WAH_2022_2 | 3 | 3 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |