Mecopus (plant)

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]

Mecopus
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
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.

Inflorescence of Mecopus nidulans.