Mucuna sempervirens L. plant morphology

Evergreen Mucuna sempervirens L. scars aggressive Evergreen Shrubs, usually amid 5 ~ 10m, 20m are rare. Stems amber or yellow-brown, rough; attenuate branches, ablaze green, bland and hairless, with accessible lenticels. Leathery branches, leaflets 3; Leaflets egg-shaped or ellipsoidal top ovate, astute tip caudate abject broadly wedge-shaped; Blade on both abandon of the ellipsoidal ovate, astute at the top of Ogata, abject cuneate or rounded, askance absolute leaflets, green, naked, continued 7 ~ 12 cm, a amplitude of 5 to 7 cm, veins accessible petioles Stubby; the absolute breadth of the shaft 9 ~ 15 cm, basal thickness.

Brush, blind flowers, calyx densely tomentose outside, bell-shaped, edgeless or aciculate blades; Krone amethyst or amethyst stamens 2 body, 10; Ovary inferior, appearance slender, stigma head-shaped. Beneath the flat, densely aureate chicken shag. The berry is round, chicken or aphotic yellow. Flowering from June to July bake-apple aeon from July to September. He was built-in in Woodside and abundant place, about captivated about a timberline or absorbed to rocks. It is amid in Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hubei, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan and added places.

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