Fabaceae
Mucuna

Mucuna tapantiana N.Zamora & T.M.Moura

First published in Kew Bull. 69(1)-9490: 1 (2014)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Costa Rica. It is a liana and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome.

Distribution

Native to:

Costa Rica

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • De Moura, T.M., Lewis, G.P., Mansano, V.F. & Tozzi, A.M.G.A. (2018). A revision of the neotropical Mucuna species (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae). Phytotaxa 337: 1-65.

Kew Bulletin

  • IUCN (2001). IUCN Red list Categories and Criteria: Version 3.1. IUCN Species Survival Commission. IUCN, Gland and Cambridge.
  • Moura, T. M., Zamora, N. A., Lewis G. P., Mansano, V. F. & Tozzi, A. M. G. A. (2013). Mucunaglobulifera (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae), a new species from Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia. Kew Bull. 68: 151 – 155.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
  • Moura, T. M., Zamora, N. A., Torke, B. M., Mansano, V. F. & Tozzi, A. M. G. A. (2012). A new species of Mucuna (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) from Costa Rica and Panama. Phytotaxa 60: 1 – 8.
  • Zamora, N. (2010). Fabaceae. In: B. E. Hammel, M. H. Grayum, C. Herrera & N. Zamora (eds), Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica. Vol V. Dicotiledóneas (Clusiaceae--Gunneraceae). Pp. 395 – 775. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 119: 1 – 970.

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • De Moura, T.M., Lewis, G.P., Mansano, V.F. & Tozzi, A.M.G.A. (2018). A revision of the neotropical Mucuna species (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae). Phytotaxa 337: 1-65.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Bulletin

    • Kew Bulletin
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0