About Calopo
Calopogonium mucunoides, called calopo and wild ground nut, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, native to the New World Tropics, and introduced as a forage crop and a green manure to the tropics of Africa, Madagascar, the Indian Subcontinent, Asia, Malesia, Papuasia, and Australia. In some locales it has become a serious invasive species.
Description adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Calopogonium mucunoides
- Genus
- Calopogonium
- Family
- FABACEAE
- Habit
- Climber
- Habitat
- Forest plantations, also in the plains
- Native to
- Pantropical
- Distribution
- Tropical Asia, southern India
- Flowering & fruiting
- August-February
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Botanical family
Fabaceae
Legume/Bean family
Calopo belongs to the Fabaceae family.
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