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Calopogonium mucunoides

Calopo

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General Information

COMMON NAMES: Calopo

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE tropical America

COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Introduced - Recent, Naturalised; Land, lowlands, horticultural

SIGNIFICANCE LIST: Cover; Weed - serious

KEY FEATURES: Perennial climbing herb or vine. STEMS hairy, round. LEAVES alternate, trifoliolate, stipules leaf-like, very small, 3mm; stalk to 15cm, ribbed, hairy; LEAFLETS soft, hairy; laterals asymmetrical, to 11x9cm, stalk short with 1 slender stipel; central symmetical rhomboid, to 13x9cm, stalk 3cm with 2 slender stipels at outer end. FLOWERS short clusters of 2-7, small, 7mm long, blue with yellow centre. FT hairy linear pod 40x5mm, 4-8 seeds.

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Cook Islands Distribution

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Southern Group: Present Makatea: Present
RR	MG	AT	MK	MT	AK	PL	TK	MN
+++		P	+++	P	+++	-	-	-

Northern Group: -
TN	MH	RK	PK	NS	SW
-	-	-	-	-	-

Key to Symbols

blank	no data
-	absent	L	localised
X	extinct 'naturally'	W	widespread
XQi	quarantine intercepted	R	recent
XQe	eradicated	?	query preceding category
P	present	T?	taxonomic query
S	seasonal	nn	present, said to have no name
O	occasional	?1	present, name not investigated
++++	very common	?2	presence not verified, no name recorded
+++	common	N/A	absent, name not expected
++	uncommon
+	rare
Cook Islands islands: RR =Rarotonga, MG = Mangaia, AT =‘Ātiu, MK=Ma‘uke, MT=Miti‘āro, AK=Aitutaki, PL=Palmerston, PN=Penrhyn, MN=Manuae, TK=Takūtea, TN=Tongareva (TS=Tongaleva Spoken, TW=Tongareva Written, they say "el" but write "r"), MH=Manihiki, RK=Rakahanga, PK=Pukapuka, NS=Nassau, SW=Suwarrow. After a Polynesian name: ^=orthography query. Countries and other: FIJ=Fiji, WT=Wallis & Futuna, SAM=Samoa, TON=Tonga, NIU=Niue, CK=Cook Islands, CKM=Cook Islands Māori, FP=French Polynesia, AUS=Australs, SOC=Societies, TAH=Tahiti, TUA=Tuamotus, MQS=Marquesas, MNG=Mangareva, PIT=Pitcain group, EAS=Easter Island, HAW=Hawai‘i, NZ=New Zealand, NZM=New Zealand Māori

Scientific Taxonomy

Calopogonium mucunoides Desv.
TAXONOMY: PLANTAE; ANTHOPHYTA (=Angiospermae); MAGNOLIOPSIDA (=Dicotyledones); ROSIDAE; Fabales (Legumes); FABACEAE

More Information

SIGNIFICANCE NOTES -
POSITIVE SIGNIFICANCE: Cover
NEGATIVE SIGNIFICANCE: Weed - serious. Comments: A serious weed on Mauke and in Arorangi on Rarotonga.

Vouchers & References

Vouchers:
Rarotonga: fieldspecimen+photo, Arorangi, Ara Metua, 4/2003, GMcC. Mauke: fieldspecimen+photo, NBSAP, 2001, GMcC - originally mis-ID as Pueraria phaseoloides, corrected 4/2003 by GMcC.

References:
p.441 Neal - In Gardens of Hawaii
p.3/225 A.C.Smith - Flora Vitiensis Nova

Data Update History (information):
zTX, zB02, zM03a, zupM03b, zD03a

Web Resources

Citation Information

McCormack, Gerald (2007) Cook Islands Biodiversity Database, Version 2007.2. Cook Islands Natural Heritage Trust, Rarotonga. Online at http://cookislands.bishopmuseum.org.
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