Taxon:
Crotalaria juncea L.
Summary
Place of publication:
Sp. pl. 2:714. 1753
Verified:
09/12/2005
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Reference(s)
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- based on Alden, B. & S. Ryman. 2005-: SKUD (Swedish Utility and Cultivated Plants Database)
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Common names
English
Indian-hemp – Madras-hemp – sann-hemp – sunn crotalaria – sunn-hemp – French
chanvre du Bengale – crotolaire jonciforme – German
Sanhanf – India
san – sunn – Portuguese
cânhamo-da-Índia – crotalária – Spanish
cáñamo san – Swedish
sunnhampa – Transcribed Chinese
shu ma –
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | Bangladesh | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | Bhutan | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | India | Andhra Pradesh | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | India | Arunachal Pradesh | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | India | Assam | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | India | Bihar | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | India | Delhi | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | India | Goa | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | India | Gujarat | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | India | Haryana | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | India | Himachal Pradesh | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | India | Jammu and Kashmir | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | India | Karnataka | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | India | Kerala | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | India | Madhya Pradesh | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | India | Maharashtra | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | India | Manipur | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | India | Meghalaya | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | India | Mizoram | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | India | Nagaland | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | India | Orissa | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | India | Pondicherry | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | India | Punjab | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | India | Rajasthan | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | India | Sikkim | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | India | Tamil Nadu | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | India | Tripura | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | India | Uttar Pradesh | |
2 | Cultivated | | | | | cult. throughout tropics |
6 | Other | | | | | exact native range in s. Asia obscure |
Native
Asia-Tropical
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INDIAN SUBCONTINENT:
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India [Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Delhi, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Orissa, Pondicherry, Punjab, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh]
Cultivated
(cult. throughout tropics)
Other
(exact native range in s. Asia obscure)
Economic Uses
Animal food
Environmental
soil improver (green manure fide Dict Econ Pl; Cover Crop Database) – Materials
fiber (more enduring than jute fide Dict Econ Pl) – Medicines
folklore (fide Herbs Commerce ed2) – Vertebrate poisons
mammals (fide Kellerman et al.; Lampe & McCann) –