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Calopo

Calopogonium mucunoides

Calopo
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Overview

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.

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  1. Wikipedia (EN): Calopogonium mucunoides — CC BY-SA 4.0