Calopogonium mucunoides

Calopogonium mucunoides
	Close-up of flower
	Twining habit
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Fabales
Family:	Fabaceae
Subfamily:	Faboideae
Genus:	Calopogonium
Species:	C. mucunoides
Binomial name
	Calopogonium mucunoides; Desv.
Synonyms
	List Calopogonium brachycarpum (Benth.) Benth. ex Hemsl.; Calopogonium flavidum Brandegee; Calopogonium orthocarpum Urb.; Stenolobium brachycarpum Benth.; Stenolobium brachycarpum var. brachystachyum Benth.; ;

Calopogonium mucunoides, called calopo and wild ground nut, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, native to the New World Tropics, and introduced as a forage crop and a green manure to the tropics of Africa, Madagascar, the Indian Subcontinent, Asia, Malesia, Papuasia, and Australia.^[1] In some locales it has become a serious invasive species.^[2]

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b "Calopogonium mucunoides Desv". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
^ "Calopogonium mucunoides - Desv". pfaf.org. Plants For A Future. 2021. Retrieved 23 April 2021.

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[483437-1-1] "Calopogonium mucunoides Desv". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 23 April 2021.

[2] "Calopogonium mucunoides - Desv". pfaf.org. Plants For A Future. 2021. Retrieved 23 April 2021.

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