Fabaceae
Macroptilium

Macroptilium gracile (Poepp. ex Benth.) Urb.

First published in Symb. Antill. 9: 457 (1928)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is SW. Mexico to Tropical America. It is a climbing perennial and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome. It is used as animal food.

Distribution

Native to:

Argentina Northeast, Aruba, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico Southwest, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panamá, Venezuela

Synonyms

Homotypic Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.
  • Balick, M.J., Nee, M.H. & Atha, D.E. (2000). Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Belize with Common Names an Uses: 1-246. New York Botanic Garden Press, New York.
  • Boggan, J. Funck, V. & Kelloff, C. (1997). Checklist of the Plants of the Guianas (Guyana, Surinam, Franch Guiana) ed. 2: 1-238. University of Guyana, Georgetown.
  • D'Arcy, W.G. (1987). Flora of Panama. Checklist and Index.. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 17: 1-328. Missouri Botanical Garden.
  • Forzza, R.C., Zappi, D. & Souza, V.C. (2016-continuously updated). Flora do Brasil 2020 em construção http://reflora.jbrj.gov.br/reflora/listaBrasil/ConsultaPublicaUC/ResultadoDaConsultaNovaConsulta.do.
  • Garcia-Mendoza, A.J. & Meave, J.A. (eds.) (2012). Diversidad florística de Oaxaca: de musgos a angiospermas (colecciones y listas de especies), ed. 2: 1-351. Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
  • Goodwin, Z.A. & al. (2013). A checklist of the vascular plants of the lowland savannas of Belize, Central America. Phytotaxa 101: 1-119.
  • Hammel, B.E., Grayum, M.H., Herrera & C. & Zamora, N. (eds.) (2010). Manual de plantas de Costa Rica volumen V. Dicotiledóneas (Clusiaceae-Gunneraceae). Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 119: 1-970. Missouri Botanical Garden.
  • Hokche, O., Berry, P.E. & Huber, O. (eds.) (2008). Nuevo Catálogo de la Flora Vascular de Venezuela: 1-859. Fundación Instituto Botánico de Venezuela.
  • Jørgensen, P.M., Nee, M.H. & Beck., S.G. (eds.) (2013). Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de Bolivia. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 127: 1-1741. Missouri Botanical Garden.
  • Nelson Sutherland, C.H. (2008). Catálogo de las plantes vasculares de Honduras. Espermatofitas: 1-1576. SERNA/Guaymuras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
  • Standley, P.C. & Steyermark, J.A. (1946). Flora of Guatemala. Fieldiana Botany New Series 24(5): 1-502. Field Museum of Natural History.
  • Stevens, W.D., Ulloa U., C., Pool, A. & Montiel, O.M. (2001). Flora de Nicaragua. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 85: i-xlii, 1-2666. Missouri Botanical Garden.
  • Villaseñor, J.L. (2016). Checklist of the native vascular plants of Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 87: 559-902.
  • da Silva e Silva, W.L., Cajueiro Gurgel, E.S., Moreira dos Santos, J.U. & Falcão da Silva, M. (2013). Inventário e distribuição geográfica de Leguminosae no arquipélago de Marajó, PA, Brazil. Hoehnea 40: 627-647.
  • de Moura Júnior, E.G. & al. (2015). Updated checklist of aquatic macrophytes from Northern Brazil. Acta Amazonica 45: 111-132.

Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia

  • Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R. & Celis, M. (eds.). 2015. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. http://catalogoplantasdecolombia.unal.edu.co

Useful Plants of Boyacá Project

  • GRIN National Genetic Resources Program http://www.ars-grin.gov in The State of the World’s Plants Report–2016. (2016). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew https://stateoftheworldsplants.org/2016/

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.
  • Boggan, J. Funck, V. & Kelloff, C. (1997). Checklist of the Plants of the Guianas (Guyana, Surinam, Franch Guiana) ed. 2: 1-238. University of Guyana, Georgetown.
  • D'Arcy, W.G. (1987). Flora of Panama. Checklist and Index.. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 17: 1-328. Missouri Botanical Garden.
  • Forzza, R.C., Zappi, D. & Souza, V.C. (2016-continuously updated). Flora do Brasil 2020 em construção http://reflora.jbrj.gov.br/reflora/listaBrasil/ConsultaPublicaUC/ResultadoDaConsultaNovaConsulta.do.
  • Garcia-Mendoza, A.J. & Meave, J.A. (eds.) (2012). Diversidad florística de Oaxaca: de musgos a angiospermas (colecciones y listas de especies), ed. 2: 1-351. Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
  • Goodwin, Z.A. & al. (2013). A checklist of the vascular plants of the lowland savannas of Belize, Central America. Phytotaxa 101: 1-119.
  • Hammel, B.E., Grayum, M.H., Herrera & C. & Zamora, N. (eds.) (2010). Manual de plantas de Costa Rica volumen V. Dicotiledóneas (Clusiaceae-Gunneraceae). Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 119: 1-970. Missouri Botanical Garden.
  • Hokche, O., Berry, P.E. & Huber, O. (eds.) (2008). Nuevo Catálogo de la Flora Vascular de Venezuela: 1-859. Fundación Instituto Botánico de Venezuela.
  • Jørgensen, P.M., Nee, M.H. & Beck., S.G. (eds.) (2013). Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de Bolivia. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 127: 1-1741. Missouri Botanical Garden.
  • Nelson Sutherland, C.H. (2008). Catálogo de las plantes vasculares de Honduras. Espermatofitas: 1-1576. SERNA/Guaymuras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
  • Standley, P.C. & Steyermark, J.A. (1946). Flora of Guatemala. Fieldiana Botany New Series 24(5): 1-502. Field Museum of Natural History.
  • Stevens, W.D., Ulloa U., C., Pool, A. & Montiel, O.M. (2001). Flora de Nicaragua. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 85: i-xlii, 1-2666. Missouri Botanical Garden.
  • da Silva e Silva, W.L., Cajueiro Gurgel, E.S., Moreira dos Santos, J.U. & Falcão da Silva, M. (2013). Inventário e distribuição geográfica de Leguminosae no arquipélago de Marajó, PA, Brazil. Hoehnea 40: 627-647.

Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia

  • Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R., & Celis, M. (eds.). (2020). Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia. v1.1. Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Dataset/Checklist. https://doi.org/10.15472/7avdhn
  • Diazgranados et al. (2021). Catalogue of plants of Colombia. Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia project. In prep.
  • Diazgranados, M., Allkin, B., Black N., Cámara-Leret, R., Canteiro C., Carretero J., Eastwood R., Hargreaves S., Hudson A., Milliken W., Nesbitt, M., Ondo, I., Patmore, K., Pironon, S., Turner, R., Ulian, T. (2020). World Checklist of Useful Plant Species. Produced by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity.
  • GBIF.org (2021). GBIF species matching tool. https://www.gbif.org/tools/species-lookup
  • GRIN (2021). Germplasm Resources Information Network from the United States Department of Agriculture. https://www.ars-grin.gov/
  • Willis, K.J. (ed.) (2017). State of the World’s Plants 2017. Report. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

International Legume Database and Information Service

  • Wei, Z. (1994). Antheroporum &... In: Fl. Reip. Pop. Sinicae, 40 (Leguminosae 2)

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Feb 1, 2012 Jansen-Jacobs, M.J; ter Welle, B.J.H.; Görts-van Rijn, A.R.A.; Ek R.C. [559] K000744916 Yes
Feb 1, 2012 Cremers, G. [5193b] K000744914 Yes
Feb 1, 2012 Cremers, G.; Granville, J.J., de [`4413 bis] K000744915 Yes
Feb 1, 2012 Cremers, G. [5193bis] K000744913 Yes
Feb 1, 2012 Jansen-Jacobs, M.J; ter Welle, B.J.H.; Görts-van Rijn, A.R.A.; Ek R.C. [1328] K000744917 Yes
Oct 1, 1995 Nascimento, M.S.B.; Alencar, M.E. [1036] Brazil K000206604 Yes
Jul 1, 1995 Sales, M.F. [415] Brazil K000206603 Yes
Apr 1, 1995 Sanaiotti, T.M. [229] Brazil K000909331 Yes
Apr 24, 1992 Leoni, L.S. [s.n.] Brazil K000909329 Yes
Aug 22, 1987 Lewis, G.P. [1511] Brazil K000909325 Yes
Jan 1, 1985 Amaral, I.L.; Nelson, B.W.; Magnison, W. [1430] Brazil K000909328 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Guyana K001365432 Yes
Pires, J.M.; Rodrigues, W.; Irvine, G.C. [50982] Brazil K000909327 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Guyana K001365648 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] K001366076 Yes
Ule, E. [7533] Brazil K000909324 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Guyana K001365421 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Venezuela K001365550 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] K001259790 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Venezuela K001365548 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Colombia K001365542 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Guyana K001365431 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Guyana K001365425 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] K001366077 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Guyana K001365424 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Guyana K001365434 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Guyana K001365433 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Guyana K001365437 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Guyana K001365427 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Guyana K001365436 Yes
Semir, J. [2168] Brazil K000909330 Yes
Pires, J.M.; Cavalcante, P.B. [52046] Brazil K000909321 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Venezuela K001365549 Yes
Queiroz, L.P.; Nascimento, N.S. [4658] Brazil K000206946 Yes
Ule, E. [8173] Brazil K000909323 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Guyana K001365439 Yes
Gardner, G. [2114] Brazil K000206606 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Guyana K001365422 Yes
Pohl, J.E. [s.n.] Brazil K000189691 Type Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Venezuela K001365545 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Guyana K001365438 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Guyana K001365426 Yes
Prance, G.T.; Steward, J.R.; Ramos, J.F.; Farias, L.G. [9137] Brazil K000909332 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Guyana K001365423 Yes
Cook, C.D.K. [269] Brazil K000909326 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Venezuela K001365546 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Colombia K001365541 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Guyana K001365430 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] French Guiana K001365440 Yes
Gardner, G. [1541] Brazil K000206607 Yes
Ule, E. [8861] Brazil K000909322 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Colombia K001365543 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Bolivia K001365544 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Guyana K001365419 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Cuba K001366129 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Colombia K001365540 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Guyana K001365435 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] K001259789 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Guyana K001365428 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Venezuela K001365547 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Guyana K001365420 Yes
Gardner, G. [2115] Brazil K000206605 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] K001259791 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Guyana K001365429 Yes
Poeppig [s.n.] Cuba K000502929 Type Yes
s.coll. [Cat. no. 5602] Phaseolus gracilis K001121429 Unknown Type Material Yes
s.coll. [Cat. no. 5602] India Phaseolus gracilis K001121428 Unknown Type Material Yes

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia

    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • International Legume Database and Information Service

    • International Legume Database and Information Service (ILDIS) V10.39 Nov 2011
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Science Photographs

    • Copyright applied to individual images

  • Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia

    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Useful Plants of Boyacá Project

    • ColPlantA database
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0