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Internal ID UUID643fd8f4ce57a033753396
Scientific name Mucuna gigantea
Authority (Willd.) DC.
First published in Prodr.2: 405 (1825)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Dolichos giganteus Willd. Sp. Pl., ed. 4, 3: 1041 (1802)
Stizolobium giganteum (Willd.) Moon Cat. Pl. Ceylon: 53 (1824)
Dolichos gigantea Willd.
Carpogon giganteus (Willd.) Roxb.
Carpopogon giganteum (Willd.) Roxb. Fl. Ind. (Roxburgh) 3: 287. 1832 [Oct-Dec 1832] (as giganteus)
Stizolobium giganteum (Roxb.) Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 208. 1891 [5 Nov 1891]
Negretia gigantea (Willd.) Oken Allg. Naturgesch.3(3): 1666 (1841)
Carpopogon giganteus (Willd.) Roxb. ex Lindl. J.C.Loudon, Encycl. Pl.: 616 (1829)

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Language Common/alternative name
English burny bean
English seabean
English velvet bean
English sea bean
Arabic ميقونة عملاقة
Thai หมามุ่ยช้าง
Vietnamese Đậu mèo lớn
Chinese 大血藤
Chinese 巨黧豆
Chinese 巨油麻藤
Chinese 巨黎豆

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Name Authority First published in
Mucuna gigantea subsp. gigantea Unknown
Mucuna gigantea subsp. tashiroi (Hayata) H.Ohashi & Tateishi J. Jap. Bot.51: 166 (1976)

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- Extinct
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- Native
  • Africa
    • East Tropical Africa
      • Kenya
      • Tanzania
      • Uganda
    • South Tropical Africa
      • Mozambique
    • Southern Africa
      • Kwazulu-Natal
    • West-central Tropical Africa
      • Zaïre
    • Western Indian Ocean
      • Comoros
      • Madagascar
      • Rodrigues
      • Réunion
      • Seychelles
  • Asia-temperate
    • China
      • Hainan
    • Eastern Asia
      • Kazan-retto
      • Nansei-shoto
      • Ogasawara-Shoto
      • Taiwan
  • Asia-tropical
    • Indian Subcontinent
      • Bangladesh
      • East Himalaya
      • India
      • Sri Lanka
    • Indo-China
      • Andaman Islands
      • Myanmar
      • Nicobar Nicobar
      • Thailand
      • Vietnam
    • Malesia
      • Lesser Sunda Islands
      • Malaya
      • Philippines
    • Papuasia
      • Bismarck Archipelago
      • New Guinea
      • Solomon Islands
  • Australasia
    • Australia
      • New South Wales
      • Norfolk Island
      • Northern Territory
      • Western Australia
  • Pacific
    • North-central Pacific
      • Hawaii
    • Northwestern Pacific
      • Caroline Islands
      • Marianas
    • South-central Pacific
      • Cook Islands
      • Society Islands
      • Tubuai Islands
    • Southwestern Pacific
      • Fiji
      • Gilbert Islands
      • New Caledonia
      • Niue
      • Samoa
      • Tonga
      • Vanuatu
      • Wallis-Futuna Islands

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000182437
USDA Plants MUGI
Tropicos 13036013
INPN 447202
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:509198-1
The Plant List ild-2852
Open Tree Of Life 690587
NCBI Taxonomy 879312
Nature Serve 2.128562
IPNI 509198-1
iNaturalist 165535
GBIF 2951381
EPPO MUCGI
EOL 645013
USDA GRIN 24640
Wikipedia Mucuna_gigantea

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Important Medicinal and Food Taxa (Orders and Families) in Kenya, Based on Three Quantitative Approaches Mutie FM, Mbuni YM, Rono PC, Mkala EM, Nzei JM, Phumthum M, Hu GW, Wang QF Plants (Basel) 02-Mar-2023
PMCID:PMC10005506
doi:10.3390/plants12051145
PMID:36904005
Stem cambial variants of Taiwan lianas Yang SZ, Chen PH, Chen JJ Bot Stud 24-Sep-2022
PMCID:PMC9509506
doi:10.1186/s40529-022-00358-5
PMID:36153445
The potential of plant extracts in cell therapy Li C, Cui Z, Deng S, Chen P, Li X, Yang H Stem Cell Res Ther 14-Sep-2022
PMCID:PMC9476258
doi:10.1186/s13287-022-03152-z
PMID:36104798
Aboriginal medicinal plants of Queensland: ethnopharmacological uses, species diversity, and biodiscovery pathways Turpin G, Ritmejerytė E, Jamie J, Crayn D, Wangchuk P J Ethnobiol Ethnomed 10-Aug-2022
PMCID:PMC9364609
doi:10.1186/s13002-022-00552-6
PMID:35948982
Mesenchymal stem cells as a platform for research on traditional medicine Bhonde R, Sanap A, Joshi K J Ayurveda Integr Med 02-Nov-2021
PMCID:PMC8642702
doi:10.1016/j.jaim.2021.08.012
PMID:34740493
Establishment of Pluripotent Cell Cultures to Explore Allelopathic Activity of Coffee Cells by Protoplast Co-Culture Bioassay Method Ogita S, Asrori MI, Sasamoto H Plants (Basel) 09-Sep-2020
PMCID:PMC7570047
doi:10.3390/plants9091170
PMID:32916944
Antimalarial Plants Used across Kenyan Communities Omara T Evid Based Complement Alternat Med 12-Jun-2020
PMCID:PMC7306085
doi:10.1155/2020/4538602
PMID:32617107
Antidiabetic Potential of Medicinal Plants and Their Active Components Salehi B, Ata A, V. Anil Kumar N, Sharopov F, Ramírez-Alarcón K, Ruiz-Ortega A, Abdulmajid Ayatollahi S, Valere Tsouh Fokou P, Kobarfard F, Amiruddin Zakaria Z, Iriti M, Taheri Y, Martorell M, Sureda A, N. Setzer W, Durazzo A, Lucarini M, Santini A, Capasso R, Adrian Ostrander E, -ur-Rahman A, Iqbal Choudhary M, C. Cho W, Sharifi-Rad J Biomolecules 30-Sep-2019
PMCID:PMC6843349
doi:10.3390/biom9100551
PMID:31575072
Exploring the Potential Role of Rosmarinic Acid in Neuronal Differentiation of Human Amnion Epithelial Cells by Microarray Gene Expression Profiling Ferdousi F, Sasaki K, Uchida Y, Ohkohchi N, Zheng YW, Isoda H Front Neurosci 24-Jul-2019
PMCID:PMC6667736
doi:10.3389/fnins.2019.00779
PMID:31396047
A Review on the Effect of Plant Extract on Mesenchymal Stem Cell Proliferation and Differentiation Saud B, Malla R, Shrestha K Stem Cells Int 24-Jul-2019
PMCID:PMC6681598
doi:10.1155/2019/7513404
PMID:31428160
Advances in Regenerative Medicine and Tissue Engineering: Innovation and Transformation of Medicine Dzobo K, Thomford NE, Senthebane DA, Shipanga H, Rowe A, Dandara C, Pillay M, Motaung KS Stem Cells Int 30-Jul-2018
PMCID:PMC6091336
doi:10.1155/2018/2495848
PMID:30154861
Potential role of herbal remedies in stem cell therapy: proliferation and differentiation of human mesenchymal stromal cells Udalamaththa VL, Jayasinghe CD, Udagama PV Stem Cell Res Ther 11-Aug-2016
PMCID:PMC4982011
doi:10.1186/s13287-016-0366-4
PMID:27515026
Assessment of genetic diversity in Mucuna species of India using randomly amplified polymorphic DNA and inter simple sequence repeat markers Patil RR, Pawar KD, Rane MR, Yadav SR, Bapat VA, Jadhav JP Physiol Mol Biol Plants 17-Jun-2016
PMCID:PMC4938828
doi:10.1007/s12298-016-0361-3
PMID:27436912
Seeds used for Bodhi beads in China Li F, Li J, Liu B, Zhuo J, Long C J Ethnobiol Ethnomed 30-Jan-2014
PMCID:PMC3914368
doi:10.1186/1746-4269-10-15
PMID:24479788
Case of Levodopa Toxicity from Ingestion of Mucuna gigantea Tse GG, Kim BB, McMurtray AM, Nakamoto BK Hawaii J Med Public Health 01-May-2013
PMCID:PMC3689515
PMID:23795319

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