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

Photos (5 photos)

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(c) enrique1014@BY-NC
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(c) Ng Yu Fei@BY-NC
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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.

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Present
0
Absent
0
Unknown/Other
Country Status State
Angola Present —
Argentina Present —
Australia Present —
Burundi Present —
Benin Present —
Burkina Faso Present —
Bangladesh Present —
Bahamas Present —
Belize Present —
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) Present —
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Distribution Map (Latitude and longitude coordinates sourced from GBIF.)

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Genomes (1 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Assembly Accession Assembly Level Genome Size(Mb) Contig N50(Kb) Scaffold N50(Kb) BUSCO% Downloads Actions
GCA_003370565.1 Scaffold 397 27 30 -

Transcriptomes (2 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Run ID Tissue Developmental Stage Sex Read Count Location Actions
SRR3453110 leaf, root and pod - - 97878888 India:Karnataka
SRR5211372 Leaf After flowering - 26812091 India:lucknow

DNA Barcodes (14 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

Process ID BIN Marker Length Country Date Lat/Lon Sequence
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 - -
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Literature