Plant Details

Accepted name:: Mucuna pruriens var. utilis (Wall. ex Wight) Baker ex Burck [Fabaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Infraspecies of:: Mucuna pruriens (L.) DC.
Infraspecies:: 2

Mucuna pruriens var. hirsuta (Wight & Arn.) Wilmot-Dear

Mucuna pruriens var. pruriens

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
bengal velvet-bean	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
cowage velvet-bean	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
florida velvet-bean	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
guisante negro	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
kaunch	Other	Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008)
kavach beej	Other	Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008)
lacuna-bean	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
li dou	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
lyon-bean	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
mauritius velvet-bean	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
stizolobia	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
velvet-bean	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
yokohama velvet-bean	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
黎豆	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
龙爪豆	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
Fruit (Seed)		Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 30 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Carpopogon capitatus Roxb. Fl. Ind., ed. 1832. 3: 284 (1832).
Macranthus cochinchinensis Lour. Fl. Cochinch.: 460 (1790).
Mucuna capitata (Roxb.) DC. ex Wight & Arn. Prodr. Fl. Ind. Orient. 1: 255 (1834).
Mucuna cochinchinensis (Lour.) A.Chev. Bull. Agric. Inst. Sci. Indochine 1: 91 (1919).
Mucuna lyonii Merr. Philipp. J. Sci. 1(Suppl.): 197 (1906).
Mucuna nivea (Roxb.) DC. ex Wight in R.Wight & G.A.W.Arnott, Prodr. Fl. Ind. Orient. 1: 255, 469 (1834).
Mucuna utilis Wall. ex Wight Icon. Pl. Ind. Orient. 1: t. 80 (1838).
Stizolobium capitatum (Roxb.) Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 207 (1891).
Stizolobium cochinchinense (Lour.) Burkart Descr. Pl. Cult. 1: 503 (1959).
Stizolobium niveum (Roxb.) Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 208 (1891).
Carpopogon niveus Roxb. Fl. Ind., ed. 1832. 3: 285 (1832).
Dolichos hassjoo Siebold Verh. Batav. Genootsch. Kunsten 12: 55 (1830), nom. nud.
Hypoestes cochinchinensis (Lour.) Paxton Pocket Bot. Dict.: 165 (1840).
Mucuna aterrima (Piper & Tracy) Holland Kew Bull., Addit. Ser. 9: 216 (1911).
Mucuna atrocarpa F.P.Metcalf Lingnan Sci. J. 19: 559 (1940).
Mucuna deeringiana (Bort) Merr. Philipp. J. Sci., C 5: 118 (1910).
Mucuna martini H.Lév. & Vaniot Bull. Soc. Bot. France 55: 409 (1908).
Mucuna nigra Buch.-Ham. in N.Wallich, Numer. List: n.° 5617 (1831), not validly publ.
Mucuna pachylobia (Piper & Tracy) Rock Legum. Pl. Hawaii: 199 (1920).
Mucuna pruriens f. capitata (Roxb.) K.Heyne Nutt. Pl. Ned.-Ind. 2: 328 (1916).
Mucuna pruriens var. capitata (Roxb.) Burck Bull. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg 11: 187 (1893).
Mucuna pruriens f. cochinchinensis (Lour.) Backer in C.A.Backer & R.C.Bakhuizen van der Brink, Fl. Java 1: 629 (1964).
Mucuna pruriens subsp. deeringiana (Bort) Hanelt in R.Mansfeld, Verz. Landwirtsch. Gärtn. Kulturpfl., ed. 2, 1: 533 (1986).
Negretia mitis Blanco Fl. Filip.: 588 (1837), nom. illeg.
Stizolobium aterrimum Piper & Tracy Bull. Bur. Pl. Industr. U.S.D.A. 179: 18 (1910).
Stizolobium cinereum Piper & Tracy Bull. Bur. Pl. Industr. U.S.D.A. 179: 15 (1910).
Stizolobium deeringianum Bort Bull. Bur. Pl. Industr. U.S.D.A. 141: 31 (1909).
Stizolobium microspermum Piper Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 30: 60 (1917).
Stizolobium pachylobium Piper & Tracy Bull. Bur. Pl. Industr. U.S.D.A. 179: 19 (1910).
Stizolobium utile (Wall. ex Wight) Piper & Tracy Bull. Bur. Pl. Industr. U.S.D.A. 179: 14 (1910).

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Carpopogon capitatum Roxb.	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Marcanthus cochinchinensis Lour.	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Mucuna capitata	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Mucuna capitata DC.	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
Mucuna capitata Sweet	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Mucuna capitata Wight et Arnott	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Mucuna cochinchinensis	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Mucuna cochinchinensis A.Chev.	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
Mucuna iyonii Merr.	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Mucuna nivea	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Mucuna pruriens (L.) DC. var. utilis (Wall. ex Wight) Baker ex Burck	Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2017) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
Mucuna pruriens (L.) DC. var. utilis (Wall. ex Wight) L.H. Bailey	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Mucuna pruriens var. utilis (Wall. ex Wight) Baker ex Burck	WHODrug Herbal Substances, Suppl. 2020 (WHO-UMC, 2020) WHODrug Herbal Substances, Suppl. 2021 (WHO-UMC, 2021)
Mucuna utilis Wall.	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Mucuna utilis Wall. ex Wight	Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008) Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2017) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
Stizolobium capitatum (Sweet) O. Kuntze	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Stizolobium capitatum (Sweet) O.Kuntze	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Stizolobium cochinchinense (Lour.) Tanget Wang	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Stizolobium cochinchinensis (Lour.) Tang & Wang	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Stizolobium niveum	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Stizolobium niveum O.Kuntze	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)

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