Mucuna és un gènere de plantes amb flors que conté unes 100 espècies de lianes i arbusts dins la família de les fabàcies. Es troben en zones tropicals de tot el món.
El nom del gènere deriva de mucunã, una paraula de l'idioma tupí-guaraní que les designa.
Taxonomia miniatura|Mucuna urens miniatura|Hamburger Seed miniatura|Mucuna urens
Mucuna acuminata Mucuna amblyodon Mucuna argyrophylla Mucuna atropurpurea Mucuna aurea Mucuna bennettii – Red Jade Vine Mucuna biplicata Mucuna birdwoodiana Mucuna bracteata Mucuna calophylla Mucuna canaliculata Mucuna championii Mucuna coriacea Mucuna coriacea subsp. coriacea Mucuna coriacea subsp. irritans Mucuna curranii Mucuna cyclocarpa Mucuna diabolica (disputed) Mucuna diplax Mucuna discolor Mucuna elliptica Mucuna fawcettii Mucuna ferox Mucuna flagellipes Mucuna gigantea Mucuna glabrialata Mucuna gracilipes Mucuna hainanensis Mucuna hainanensis subsp. hainanensis Mucuna hainanensis subsp. multilamellata Mucuna holtonii Mucuna hooglandii Mucuna huberi Mucuna humblotii Mucuna imbricata Mucuna interrupta Mucuna killipiana Mucuna lamellata Mucuna lamii Mucuna lane-poolei Mucuna longipedunculata Mucuna macmillanii Mucuna macrobotrys Mucuna macrocarpa Mucuna macroceratides (disputed) Mucuna macrophylla Mucuna macropoda
Mucuna manongarivensis Mucuna mapirensis Mucuna melanocarpa Mucuna membranacea Mucuna mindorensis Mucuna mitis (disputed) Mucuna mollis Mucuna mollissima Mucuna monosperma Mucuna mutisiana Mucuna nigricans Mucuna novo-guineensis – New Guinea Creeper Mucuna oligoplax Mucuna pachycarpa Mucuna pacifica Mucuna pallida Mucuna paniculata Mucuna platyphylla Mucuna platyplekta Mucuna pluricostata (disputed) Mucuna poggei Mucuna poggei var. pesa Mucuna poggei var. poggei Mucuna pruriens – Velvet Bean, Cowhage, Kapikachu, atmagupta, yerepe (Yoruba), "buffalo bean" Mucuna pruriens var. hirsuta Mucuna pruriens var. pruriens Mucuna pruriens var. sericophylla Mucuna pruriens var. utilis Mucuna psittacina (disputed) Mucuna reptans Mucuna reticulata Mucuna revoluta Mucuna rostrata Mucuna samarensis Mucuna schlechteri Mucuna sempervirens Mucuna sloanei Mucuna stanleyi Mucuna stans Mucuna stenoplax Mucuna terrens Mucuna thailandica Mucuna tomentosa Mucuna urens Mucuna warburgiiILDIS (2005)
Anteriorment dins aquest gènere Canavalia mattogrossensis (com M. mattegrossensis ) Psophocarpus scandens (com M. comorensis )
Notes
Referències (1994): Bufotenine – a hallucinogen in ancient snuff powders of South America and a drug of abuse on the streets of New York City. Forensic Science Review 6(1): 1-18. (2003): Processing the Mucuna for Human Food in the Republic of Guinea. Tropical and Subtropical Agroecosystems 1(2/3): 193–196. PDF fulltext (2002): Mucuna pruriens. Created 2002-APR-22. Retrieved 2007-DEC-17. (2005): Genus Mucuna. Version 10.01, November 2005. Retrieved 2007-DEC-17. (2004): Mucuna pruriens in Parkinson's disease: a double blind clinical and pharmacological study. Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry 75(12): 1672–1677. (HTML abstract) (2002): Kapikachu or Cowhage (Mucuna pruriens) Crop Fact Sheet. Version of 5-9-2002. Retrieved 2007-DEC-17. (2000): Utilization of rock phosphate by crops on a representative toposequence in the Northern Guinea savanna zone of Nigeria: response by Mucuna pruriens, Lablab purpureus and maize. Soil Biology and Biochemistry '32(14): 2063–2077. (HTML abstract)
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