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A new species of Mucuna from Ethiopia is described, illustrated, and mapped. The species is recognisable by the dense pubescence on the abaxial surface of the leaflets and the violet corolla. It is morphologically similar to M. poggei var. pesa and M. melanocarpa, but M. poggei var. pesa has white, greenish white, or pale green corollas, and M. melanocarpa has the abaxial surface of the leaflets glabrous. In M. melanocarpa the fruits are smaller (7 – 9 × 1.5 cm) than in M. mooneyi (9 – 10 × 2 – 2.5 cm), while in M. poggei var. pesa the fruits are bigger (10 – 13 × 2 – 2.5 cm).
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The authors thank the Shirley A. Graham fellowship for support to visit the Missouri Botanical Garden, CAPES (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento do Pessoal de Nível Superior, Brazil) for the doctoral grant to the first author, and CNPq (process 245590/2012-9) for the post-doctoral grant received by the first author. We are especially grateful to many staff of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K), the Botanic Garden Meise (BR), the Missouri Botanical Garden (MO) (in particular Olga Martha Montiel, Jim Solomon and Burgund Bassüner), and Addis Ababa University — ETH herbarium (in particular Sebsebe Demissew and Fiseha Getachew). TMM also thanks her past supervisors in Brazil, Dra Ana Maria Goulart de Azevedo Tozzi and Dr Vidal de Freitas Mansano for continued encouragement, Brian Schrire for helping to choose the species name and Mike Gilbert and Roger Polhill for helping with references about the work of H. F. Mooney.
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de Moura, T.M., Gereau, R. & Lewis, G.P. Mucuna mooneyi (Leguminosae: Papilionoideae), a new species from Ethiopia. Kew Bull 70, 32 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12225-015-9581-x
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