Genus Data Instance

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{
    "url": "https://treescape.app/api/genera/mucuna/?format=api",
    "slug": "mucuna",
    "latin_name": "Mucuna",
    "description": "Mucuna is a genus of around 114 accepted species of climbing lianas (vines) and shrubs of the family Fabaceae: tribe Phaseoleae, typically found in tropical and subtropical forests in the Americas, sub-Saharan Africa, southern, southeastern, and eastern Asia, New Guinea, Australia, and the Pacific Islands.\nThe leaves are trifoliolate, alternate, or spiraled, and the flowers are pea-like but larger, with distinctive curved petals, and occurring in racemes. Like other legumes, Mucuna plants bear pods. They are generally bat-pollinated and produce seeds that are buoyant sea-beans. These have a characteristic three-layered appearance, appearing like the eyes of a large mammal in some species and like a hamburger in others (most notably M. sloanei) and giving rise to common names like deer-eye beans, donkey-eye beans, ox-eye beans, or hamburger seed.\nThe name of the genus is derived from mucunã, a Tupi–Guarani word for these species.",
    "gbif_id": 2951351,
    "image_thumbnail": "https://treescape.app/media/plant_species/images/thumbnails/mucuna_thumbnail_9p1gMGQ.jpg",
    "image_large": "https://treescape.app/media/plant_species/images/large/mucuna_thumbnail_LV84p7m.jpg"
}