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A vine of the PAPILIONACEAE family. The seeds of Mucuna pruriens are black in color with pale brown specks, uniform in shape, 9 to 12 mm long with funicular hilum and cellular pit growth around the hilum. The seed coat is hard, thick and glossy. The embryo completely fills the seed and is made up of 2 large fleshy cotyledons. Transverse section of seed shows an outer testa with a palisade epidermis made up of a rod-shaped macrosclereids with thickened anticlinal walls.
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Ross, I.A. (2003). Mucuna pruriens. In: Medicinal Plants of the World. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-365-1_16
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