Mucuna

Accepted species 118 Documented here 14 Family Fabaceae

Accepted species 118 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Mucuna macrocarpa Wall. 142 documented
Mucuna pruriens (L.) DC. 87 documented
Mucuna gigantea (Willd.) DC. 29 documented
Mucuna sloanei Fawc. & Rendle 20 documented
Mucuna birdwoodiana Tutcher 17 documented
Mucuna urens (L.) Medik. 16 documented
Mucuna monosperma Roxb. ex Wight 11 documented
Mucuna monticola N.Zamora, T.M.Moura & A.M.G.Azevedo 9 documented
Mucuna argyrophylla Standl. 8 documented
Mucuna holtonii (Kuntze) Moldenke 8 documented
Mucuna bracteata DC. ex Kurz 7 documented
Mucuna mutisiana (Kunth) DC. 6 documented
Mucuna bennettii F.Muell. 4 documented
Mucuna poggei Taub. 3 documented
Mucuna membranacea Hayata 2 below the evidence gate
Mucuna hainanensis Hayata 1 below the evidence gate
Mucuna rostrata Benth. 1 below the evidence gate
Mucuna acuminata Graham ex Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna aimun Wiriad. 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna analuciana T.M.Moura, Mansano & A.M.G.Azevedo 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna angustifolia Adema 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna argentea T.M.Moura, G.P.Lewis & A.M.G.Azevedo 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna atropurpurea (Roxb.) DC. ex Wight 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna aurea C.B.Rob. 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna balfouriana A.Murray bis 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna biplicata Teijsm. & Binn. ex Kurz 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna bodinieri H.Lév. 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna brachycarpa Rech. 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna cajamarca T.M.Moura, G.P.Lewis & A.M.G.Azevedo 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna calophylla W.W.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna canaliculata Verdc. 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna championii Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna chiapaneca M.Sousa & T.M.Moura 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna coriacea Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna cuatrecasasii Hern.Cam. & C.Barbosa ex L.K.Ruíz 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna curranii Elmer 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna cyclocarpa F.P.Metcalf 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna diabolica Backer 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna dichroa Hoffmanns. 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna diplax Wilmot-Dear 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna discolor Merr. & L.M.Perry 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna ecuatoriana T.M.Moura, G.P.Lewis, Mansano & A.M.G.Azevedo 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna elliptica DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna elmeri Merr. 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna eriocarpa Barb.Rodr. 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna eurylamellata Adema 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna flagellipes Vogel ex Hook.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna glabra (Reinecke) Wilmot-Dear 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna glabrialata (Hauman) Verdc. 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna globulifera T.M.Moura, N.Zamora & A.M.G.Azevedo 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna gracilipes Craib 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna guangxiensis K.W.Jiang & Y.Feng Huang 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna havilandii Wiriad. 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna hirtipetala Wilmot-Dear & R.Sha 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna hooglandii Verdc. 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna humblotii Drake 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna imbricata (Roxb. ex Lindl.) DC. ex Loudon 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna incurvata Wilmot-Dear & R.Sha 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna interrupta Gagnep. 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna jarocha T.M.Moura, Mansano, Gereau & A.M.G.Azevedo 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna kabaenensis Adema 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna kawakabuti Wiriad. 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna keyensis Burck 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna killipiana Hern.Cam. & C.Barbosa 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna klitgaardiae T.M.Moura, G.P.Lewis & A.M.G.Azevedo 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna kostermansii Wiriad. 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna lamellata Wilmot-Dear 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna lamii Verdc. 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna laticifera Ingalh., N.V.Page & S.S.Gaikwad 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna longipedunculata Merr. 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna macrobotrys Hance 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna macrophylla Miq. 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna macropoda Baker f. 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna manongarivensis Du Puy & Labat 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna melanocarpa Hochst. ex A.Rich. 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna mindorensis Merr. 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna mitis (Ruiz & Pav.) DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna mollis (Kunth) DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna mollissima Teijsm. & Binn. ex Kurz 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna mooneyi T.M.Moura, Gereau & G.P.Lewis 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna neocaledonica Baker f. 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna novoguineensis Scheff. 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna occidentalis (Hepper) T.M.Moura & G.P.Lewis 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna oligoplax Niyomdham & Wilmot-Dear 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna pachycarpa Parreno ex Wilmot-Dear 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna pacifica Hosok. 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna pallida Cordem. 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna paniculata Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna papuana Adema 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna parvifolia Burck 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna persericea (Wilmot-Dear) T.M.Moura & A.M.G.Azevedo 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna pesa De Wild. 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna platyphylla A.Gray 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna platyplekta Quisumb. & Merr. 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna pseudoelliptica T.M.Moura, G.P.Lewis & A.M.G.Azevedo 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna pungens (Vell.) H.F.Menezes & J.F.B.Pastore 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna reptans Verdc. 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna reticulata Burck 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna revoluta Wilmot-Dear 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna sakapipei Wiriad. 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna samarensis Merr. 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna sanjappae Aitawade & S.R.Yadav 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna schlechteri Harms 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna sempervirens Hemsl. 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna sericophylla Perkins 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna stanleyi C.T.White 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna stans Welw. ex Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna stenoplax Wilmot-Dear 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna subumbellata Wilmot-Dear 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna sumbawaensis Wiriad. 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna taborensis Schweinf. ex Piper 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna tapantiana N.Zamora & T.M.Moura 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna thailandica Niyomdham & Wilmot-Dear 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna tomentosa K.Schum. 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna toppingii Merr. 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna venenosa A.Murray bis 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna verdcourtii Wiriad. 0 below the evidence gate
Mucuna warburgii K.Schum. & Lauterb. 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.