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Issue: Vol. 60 No. 1 (2012)
Type: Article
Published: 2012-07-17
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.60.1.1
Page range: 1–8
Abstract views: 23
PDF downloaded: 1

A New Species of Mucuna (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae-Phaseoleae) from Costa Rica and Panama

Programa de Pós-graduação em Biologia Vegetal, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Rua Monteiro Lobato 255, Cidade Universitária Zeferino Vaz, Barão Geraldo, Campinas, SP 13083-862, Brazil
Insituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INBio), Apdo. 22-3100, Santo Domingo-Heredia, Costa Rica.
Institute of Systematic Botany, The New York Botanical Garden, 2900 Southern Blvd., Bronx, NY 10458-5126, USA.
Instituto de Pesquisas Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, DIPEQ. Rua Pacheco Leão 915, Jardim Botânico, Rio de Janeiro, RJ 22460-030, Brazil.
Departamento de Biologia Vegetal, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Rua Monteiro Lobato 255, Cidade Universitária Zeferino Vaz, Barão Geraldo, Campinas, SP 13083-862, Brazil
Biodiversity Fabaceae Neotropics New World Taxonomy Panama Costa Rica Eudicots

Abstract

A new species of Mucuna from Costa Rica and Panama is described and illustrated. Mucuna monticola is mainly known from the highlands of the Cordilleras of Guanacaste, Tilarán, Central and Talamanca in Costa Rica, and in Panama in particular from the Chiriqui area. It is superficially similar to Mucuna mutisiana and M. killipiana, but it differs from both in multiple aspects of its morphology and is unique among Neotropical Mucuna in its pod, which is larger and longer with conspicuous irregular lamellae or reticulate-ridged, not constricted between the seeds.