Mucuna pruriens
TaxID: 157652
Basic Information
Mucuna pruriens
Cowage, Cowitch
Mucuna pruriens is a tropical legume native to Africa and tropical Asia and widely naturalized and cultivated. Its English common names include monkey tamarind, velvet bean, Bengal velvet bean, Florida velvet bean, Mauritius velvet bean, Yokohama velvet bean, cowage, cowitch, lacuna bean, and Lyon bean. The plant is notorious for the extreme itchiness it produces on contact, particularly with the young foliage and the seed pods. It also produces many medium-sized red swollen bumps on the skin with the itching. It has agricultural and horticultural value, and is used in herbalism.
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Taxonomic Information
Eukaryota
Streptophyta
Magnoliopsida
Fabales
Fabaceae
Mucuna
pruriens
Unclassified
Species
nan
d__Eukaryota;p__Streptophyta;c__Magnoliopsida;o__Fabales;f__Fabaceae;g__Mucuna;s__Mucuna pruriens
nan
Weeds
Photos (5 photos)
Morphological Features
No morphological description available.
Host Plants (0 host plants)
Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.
No host plants available.
Quarantine Status (1 records)
Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.
| Country | Status | Year Added |
|---|---|---|
| French Polynesia | Absent | — |
Distribution (84 countries)
Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.
| Country | Status | State |
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| Angola | Present | — |
| Argentina | Present | — |
| Australia | Present | — |
| Burundi | Present | — |
| Benin | Present | — |
| Burkina Faso | Present | — |
| Bangladesh | Present | — |
| Bahamas | Present | — |
| Belize | Present | — |
| Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | Present | — |
Distribution Map (Latitude and longitude coordinates sourced from GBIF.)
Download CSVGenomes (1 records)
Data source: NCBI.
| Assembly Accession | Assembly Level | Genome Size(Mb) | Contig N50(Kb) | Scaffold N50(Kb) | BUSCO% | Downloads | Actions |
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| GCA_003370565.1 | Scaffold | 397 | 27 | 30 | - |
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Transcriptomes (2 records)
Data source: NCBI.
| Run ID | Tissue | Developmental Stage | Sex | Read Count | Location | Actions |
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| SRR3453110 | leaf, root and pod | - | - | 97878888 | India:Karnataka | |
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PRJNA319685 SRX1728162 SRP073947 weed De novo assembly of mucuna pruriens {'tissue': 'leaf, root and pod', 'geo_loc_name': 'India:Karnataka', 'biosamplemodel': 'Plant'} |
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| SRR5211372 | Leaf | After flowering | - | 26812091 | India:lucknow | |
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PRJNA369025 SRX2524597 SRP098247 weed Mucuna pruriens Transcriptome CIM- Ajar T-IV-9 {'age': '158', 'tissue': 'Leaf', 'cultivar': 'CIM- Ajar T-IV-9', 'dev_stage': 'After flowering', 'treatment': 'Gamma irradiation', 'collected_by': 'Susheel Kumar Singh', 'geo_loc_name': 'India:lucknow', 'biosamplemodel': 'Plant', 'collection_date': '2015-10-20', 'biomaterial_provider': 'CSIR-CIMAP'} |
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DNA Barcodes (14 records)
View allData source: BOLD.
| Process ID | BIN | Marker | Length | Country | Date | Lat/Lon | Sequence |
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| TRM102-12 | - | trnH-psbA | 389 | - | - | - | |
| TRM102-12 | - | rbcL | 607 | - | - | - | |
| TRM102-12 | - | matK | 802 | - | - | - | |
| TCHDC025-18 | - | rbcLa | 452 | India | 2003-12-20 | - | |
| TCHDC025-18 | - | ITS | 235 | India | 2003-12-20 | - | |
| MXBZI170-10 | - | rbcLa | 552 | Mexico | 2000-02-23 | 16.029, -97.065 | |
| GENG1058-15 | - | rbcL | 561 | India | 2014-11-11 | 22.697, 73.576 | |
| GBVR320-13 | - | matK | 1521 | Thailand | - | 13.662228, 101.086754 | |
| GBITS66879-21 | - | ITS | 806 | - | - | - | |
| GBITS26134-21 | - | ITS | 699 | Thailand | - | - |
Literature
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