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A new species of Mucuna (Leguminosae) from Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia is described and illustrated. Although the species is morphologically grouped with a number of species from Central and South America that have the primary axis of their inflorescences condensed, M. globulifera is distinguished by a suite of characters, including a condensed primary inflorescence axis (very reduced internodes, the nodes up to approximately 1 mm apart from the one above), an extremely long peduncle, secondary bracts surrounding a large and conspicuous globose structure when the inflorescence is young, flowers usually pale salmon in colour, fruits softly villous and lacking urticating trichomes, and the presence of very sparse appressed hairs on the leaflet surfaces, or the leaflets almost glabrous.
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We thank the curators and staff of the herbaria cited for giving us access to their specimens, Denis Filer who helped with mapping and Brahms, and Margaret Tebbs for preparing the illustration. Funding for TMM was provided by CAPES (process 4627-11-3). TMM also thanks the Rupert Barneby Award programme of The New York Botanical Garden, FAEPEX UNICAMP (process 43211) and Shirley A. Graham fellowships in Systematic Botany and Biogeography of Missouri Botanical Garden for funding a visit to North American herbaria and CAPES for the scholarship. NAZ thanks the Darwin Initiative of the UK Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) who partially funded his field and herbarium work through grant 15/027. VFM thanks FAPERJ (process E-26/110.331/2012).
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de Moura, T.M., Zamora, N.A., Lewis, G.P. et al. Mucuna globulifera (Leguminosae: Papilionoideae), a new species from Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia. Kew Bull 68, 151–155 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12225-012-9430-0
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