Code
CLOMU
Growth form
Vine
Biological cycle
Perennial
Habitat
Terrestrial
CLOMU
Growth form
Vine
Biological cycle
Perennial
Habitat
Terrestrial
🗒 Synonyms
| synonym | Calopogonium brachycarpum Hemsl. |
| synonym | Calopogonium flavidum Brandegee |
| synonym | Calopogonium orthocarpum Urb. |
| synonym | Glycine javanica Sensu Backer, non L. |
| synonym | Stenolobium brachycarpum Benth. |
🗒 Common Names
| Creoles and pidgins; French-based |
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| Malagasy |
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📚 Overview
Description
Global description
Calopogonium mucunoides is an herbaceous lianescent plant, annual to short live perennial, densely covered with brown hairs. The leaves are alternate, stipulate, composed of three broadly elliptical, pubescent leaflets; lateral leaflets are asymmetric. The papilionaceous flowers, about 1 cm long and blue in color, are grouped on short axillary racemes. The fruit is a flat, linear pod, 2.5 to 4 cm long, completely covered with a brown to yellowish pubescence. It contains 6 to 8 square shape seeds, about 3 mm long.
General habit
Herbaceous, lianescent plant, annual to short live perennial, with alternate compound trifoliate leaves, covered with ferruginous stellate hairs.
Underground system
The plant has a taproot system.
Stem
The cylindrical stem is climbing to prostrate, densely covered with brown hairs.
Leaf
The leaves are alternate, compound trifoliate. The base of the petiole is framed by two ovate-lanceolate stipules, about 4 mm long; petiole with length ranging from 2 to 12 cm. Leaflets are elliptical, oval or ovate-rhombic, with rounded base and obtuse to subacute, apiculate apex; they are generally2 to 7 cm long and 1.5 to 5 cm wide. The lateral leaflets are rounded and asymmetrical. Their two faces are covered with semi-applied hairs.
Inflorescence
The inflorescence is a short, axillary raceme, with long peduncle, 1 to 15 cm long, covered with red pubescence. The flowers are distributed by groups of 3 to 8 to the top of the peduncle.
Flower
Flowers are sub sessile, about 10 mm long, papilionaceous type: the calyx is pubescent, deeply cut into 5 narrowly lanceolate lobes, measuringabout 8 mm long; corolla is pale blue to dark blue in colour; the standard bears a dark purple ring at the base.
Fruit
The fruit is a flat quadrangular pod, covered with a hirsute and dense pubescence of long golden to ferruginous hairs; it measures 25 to 40 mm long and 3 to 5 mm wide and contains 6 to 8 seeds.
Seed
The seed is almost squarish (2.5 to 3.5 mm long and 2.5 to 3 mm wide), is quite variable in color: reddish, yellowish or brown.
Calopogonium mucunoides is an herbaceous lianescent plant, annual to short live perennial, densely covered with brown hairs. The leaves are alternate, stipulate, composed of three broadly elliptical, pubescent leaflets; lateral leaflets are asymmetric. The papilionaceous flowers, about 1 cm long and blue in color, are grouped on short axillary racemes. The fruit is a flat, linear pod, 2.5 to 4 cm long, completely covered with a brown to yellowish pubescence. It contains 6 to 8 square shape seeds, about 3 mm long.
General habit
Herbaceous, lianescent plant, annual to short live perennial, with alternate compound trifoliate leaves, covered with ferruginous stellate hairs.
Underground system
The plant has a taproot system.
Stem
The cylindrical stem is climbing to prostrate, densely covered with brown hairs.
Leaf
The leaves are alternate, compound trifoliate. The base of the petiole is framed by two ovate-lanceolate stipules, about 4 mm long; petiole with length ranging from 2 to 12 cm. Leaflets are elliptical, oval or ovate-rhombic, with rounded base and obtuse to subacute, apiculate apex; they are generally2 to 7 cm long and 1.5 to 5 cm wide. The lateral leaflets are rounded and asymmetrical. Their two faces are covered with semi-applied hairs.
Inflorescence
The inflorescence is a short, axillary raceme, with long peduncle, 1 to 15 cm long, covered with red pubescence. The flowers are distributed by groups of 3 to 8 to the top of the peduncle.
Flower
Flowers are sub sessile, about 10 mm long, papilionaceous type: the calyx is pubescent, deeply cut into 5 narrowly lanceolate lobes, measuringabout 8 mm long; corolla is pale blue to dark blue in colour; the standard bears a dark purple ring at the base.
Fruit
The fruit is a flat quadrangular pod, covered with a hirsute and dense pubescence of long golden to ferruginous hairs; it measures 25 to 40 mm long and 3 to 5 mm wide and contains 6 to 8 seeds.
Seed
The seed is almost squarish (2.5 to 3.5 mm long and 2.5 to 3 mm wide), is quite variable in color: reddish, yellowish or brown.
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
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📚 Natural History
Life Cycle
Life cycle
Annual
Perenial
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Madagascar: The flowering period of Calopogonium mucunoides is from March to June
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Cyclicity
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Calopogonium mucunoides is an annual or perennial plant that is propagated by seeds. These are released by dehiscence of fruits and are dispersed during cleaning of plots and soil preparation.
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Morphology
Growth form
Liana
Liana climbing structure
Liana without tendril
Leaf arrangement
Alternate
Leaf type
Compound
Type of prefoliation
Broad leaves
Compound leaf type
Trifoliate leaf
Latex
Without latex
Stem section
Round
Root type
Taproot
Hollow or solid stem
Solid stem
Stipule type
Lanceolate stipule
Leaf attachment type
with petiole
Fruit type
Pod
Pod type
Compressed pod in section
Lamina base
rounded
asymmetric
Lamina margin
entire
Lamina apex
apiculate
acute
obtuse
Upperface pilosity
Dense hairy
Upperface hair type
Pubescent
Lowerface pilosity
Dense hairy
Lamina section
embossed
Lamina Veination
in arc
Flower color
Blue
Inflorescence type
Axillary solitary flower
Stem pilosity
Dense hairy
Stem hair type
Pubescent
Life form
Climber
Ecology
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Madagascar: Calopogonium mucunoides is an indigenous species. It grows on alluvial soils and humiferous ferralitic soil, rich in sunny or lightly shaded places. It is a weed of dry crops (sugar cane cultivation, cultivation system of rainfed rice, maize or cassava) in semi-intensive culture system. It is also found along roads, canals and crops in sub-humid zone of low and medium altitude of Northwest, Middle West and the Middle East.
West Indies: Calopogonium mucunoides grows in all types of soil but prefers clayey and moist soils.
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Habitat
Terrestrial
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Origin
Calopogonium mucunoides is native to Central and South America.
World distribution
Species widespread in the tropical world: Central and South America, tropical Africa and South-west islands of the Indian Ocean (Madagascar and Mauritius where it has been introduced as cover crop), India, China, Southeast Asia, Indonesia and the Pacific Islands.
Calopogonium mucunoides is native to Central and South America.
World distribution
Species widespread in the tropical world: Central and South America, tropical Africa and South-west islands of the Indian Ocean (Madagascar and Mauritius where it has been introduced as cover crop), India, China, Southeast Asia, Indonesia and the Pacific Islands.
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Description
Geographical distibution
Madagascar
Mauritius
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📚 Occurrence
No Data
📚 Demography and Conservation
Risk Statement
Local harmfulness
Madagascar: Calopogonium mucunoides is a weed, recently introduced in Madagascar as a cover crop, became naturalized and invasive in some regions such as the Northwest. It is now spreading in crops of sub-humid areas at low and medium altitude of Madagascar. This twining species with fast growing requires early control. It is locally harmful in Northwest sugarcane plantations.
West Indies: Calopogonium mucunoides is sometimes present in fruit and vegetable crops where it is largely controlled by tillage and weed control techniques, but it remains a very damaging species in sugarcane. It settles permanently in the edges of poorly maintained fields.
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📚 Uses and Management
Uses
Agricultural: Calopogonium mucunoides is used in Madagascar and Mauritius as a cover crop and as green manure for the improvement and protection of soil and as a forage crop for livestock feed in the dry season.
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Management
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Local control
Madagascar: In cultivation of sugar cane, and in the crop systems of rainfed rice, maize or cassava, weeding or cleaning with small hand tools as angady and the machete is used to control Calopogonium mucunoides. Sugar companies use some post-emergence herbicides.
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📚 Information Listing
Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
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References
- SKERMAN P. J., CAMERON D.G. & RIVEROS F. 1988. – Tropical forage legumes FAO Plant Production and Protection, Rome p. 223-228.
- Grossard, F., Le Bourgeois, T., Dumbardon-Martial, E. & Gervais, L. 2013. Adventilles - Guadeloupe & Martinique - Les adventices des Antilles françaises. Abymes, Guadeloupe, France, Les éditions du CTCS Guadeloupe. 195 p.
- https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:483437-1
- Grard, P., T. Le Bourgeois, J. Rodenburg, P. Marnotte, A. Carrara, R. Irakiza, D. Makokha, G. kyalo, K. Aloys, K. Iswaria, N. Nguyen and G. Tzelepoglou (2012). AFROweeds V.1.0: African weeds of rice Montpellier, France & Cotonou, Bénin, Cirad-AfricaRice eds.
- MOODY K., 1989 –Weeds reported in Rice in South and Southeast Asia. IRRI, Los Banos Philippines; 442 p.
- DU PUY D. J., LABAT J. N., RABEVOHITRA R., VILLIERS J. F., BOSSER J. & MOAT J., 2002 – The Leguminoseae of Madagascar. ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, Kew, 2002, p. 552.
- Hutchinson, J., Dalziel, J.M., Keay, R.W.J., Hepper, F.N. 1958. Flora of west tropical africa. The Whitefriars Press, London & Tonbridge, Great Britain.
- Fournet, J. 2002. Flore illustrée des phanérogames de Guadeloupe et de Martinique. Cirad, Gondwana éditions, Montpellier, France.
- Johnson, D.E. 1997. Les adventices en riziculture en Afrique de l'Ouest. ADRAO/WARDA, Bouaké, Côte-d'Ivoire.
- Berhaut, J. 1976. Flore illustrée du Sénégal. Dicotylédones, tome 5, Légumineuses Papilionacées. Gouvernement du Sénégal, Ministère du Développement Rural et de l’Hydraulique, Direction des Eaux et Forêts, Dakar, Sénégal.
Information Listing > References
- SKERMAN P. J., CAMERON D.G. & RIVEROS F. 1988. – Tropical forage legumes FAO Plant Production and Protection, Rome p. 223-228.
- Grossard, F., Le Bourgeois, T., Dumbardon-Martial, E. & Gervais, L. 2013. Adventilles - Guadeloupe & Martinique - Les adventices des Antilles françaises. Abymes, Guadeloupe, France, Les éditions du CTCS Guadeloupe. 195 p.
- https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:483437-1
- Grard, P., T. Le Bourgeois, J. Rodenburg, P. Marnotte, A. Carrara, R. Irakiza, D. Makokha, G. kyalo, K. Aloys, K. Iswaria, N. Nguyen and G. Tzelepoglou (2012). AFROweeds V.1.0: African weeds of rice Montpellier, France & Cotonou, Bénin, Cirad-AfricaRice eds.
- MOODY K., 1989 –Weeds reported in Rice in South and Southeast Asia. IRRI, Los Banos Philippines; 442 p.
- DU PUY D. J., LABAT J. N., RABEVOHITRA R., VILLIERS J. F., BOSSER J. & MOAT J., 2002 – The Leguminoseae of Madagascar. ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, Kew, 2002, p. 552.
- Hutchinson, J., Dalziel, J.M., Keay, R.W.J., Hepper, F.N. 1958. Flora of west tropical africa. The Whitefriars Press, London & Tonbridge, Great Britain.
- Fournet, J. 2002. Flore illustrée des phanérogames de Guadeloupe et de Martinique. Cirad, Gondwana éditions, Montpellier, France.
- Johnson, D.E. 1997. Les adventices en riziculture en Afrique de l'Ouest. ADRAO/WARDA, Bouaké, Côte-d'Ivoire.
- Berhaut, J. 1976. Flore illustrée du Sénégal. Dicotylédones, tome 5, Légumineuses Papilionacées. Gouvernement du Sénégal, Ministère du Développement Rural et de l’Hydraulique, Direction des Eaux et Forêts, Dakar, Sénégal.
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Magnoliopsida |
| Order | Fabales |
| Family | Fabaceae |
| Genus | Calopogonium |
| Species | Calopogonium mucunoides Desv. |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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