Biology:Mecopus (plant)

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Short description: Genus of plants

Mecopus
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Genus: Mecopus
Benn. (1840)
Species:
M. nidulans
Binomial name
Mecopus nidulans
Benn. (1840)
Synonyms[2]

Uraria retrofracta Wall. (1831), not validly publ.

Mecopus is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It includes a single species, Mecopus nidulans, a scrambling perennial or subshrub native to India, Indochina, the Andaman Islands, Hainan, Java, and the Lesser Sunda Islands.[2] It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae.[3]

References

Wikidata ☰ Q3311055 entry