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Taxon:  Pueraria montana (Lour.) Merr.



Summary
Genus:
Pueraria
Family:
Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae)
Subfamily:
Faboideae
Tribe:
Phaseoleae
Subtribe:
Glycininae
Nomen number:
30355
Place of publication:
Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. ser. 2, 24(2):210. 1935
Verified:
04/21/1999 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0 (0  active, 0  available) in National Plant Germplasm System. 
Other conspecific taxa
Pueraria montana (Lour.) Merr. var. lobata (Willd.) Maesen & S. M. Almeida ex Sanjappa & Predeep (0 active accession[s])
Pueraria montana (Lour.) Merr. var. montana (0 active accession[s])
Pueraria montana (Lour.) Merr. var. thomsonii (Benth.) M. R. Almeida (0 active accession[s])
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
No images
Reference(s)
  1. Aubréville, A. et al., eds. Flore du Cambodge du Laos et du Viet-Nam. 1960-
  2. Hanelt, P., ed. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6. 2001 2:718. http://mansfeld.ipk-gatersleben.de/pls/htmldb_pgrc/f?p=185:3:2422827336895397#
  3. Kumar, S & P. V. Sane. Legumes of South Asia: a checklist. 2003
  4. Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia. 1993
  5. Li, H. L. et al., eds. Flora of Taiwan. 1975-1979
  6. Lock, J. M. & C. S. Ford. Legumes of Malesia: a checklist. 2004
  7. Lock, J. M. & J. Heald. Legumes of Indochina: a checklist. 1994
  8. Maesen, L. J. G. van der & S. M. Almeida. 1988. Two corrections to the nomenclature in revision of Pueraria DC.. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 85:233.
  9. Maesen, L. J. G. van der. 1985. Revision of the genus Pueraria DC. with some notes on Teyleria Backer (Leguminosae). Agric. Univ. Wageningen Pap. 85-1:53. Note: = P. lobata var. montana (Lour.) Maesen
  10. Maesen, L. J. G. van der. 1994. Pueraria, the kudzu and its relatives: an update of the taxonomy. 65. Note: in M. Sørensen, Proc. 1st Int. Symp. Tuberous Legumes
  11. Padua, L. S. de et al., eds. 1999. Medicinal and poisonous plants 1. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 1989- 12(1):417. http://proseanet.org
  12. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource). http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Frontpage.html
  13. Seed Regulatory and Testing Division, Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S.D.A. State noxious-weed seed requirements recognized in the administration of the Federal Seed Act (updated annually). http://www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/getfile?dDocName=STELPRDC5090172
  14. Verdcourt, B. 1966. A proposal concerning Glycine L.. Taxon 15:34-36. http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/iapt/tax
  15. Weber, E. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds. 2003
  16. Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. Flora of China (English edition). 1994- http://www.efloras.org/browse.aspx?flora_id=2
Common names
English
kudzu –
Distribution
Native
Asia-Temperate
  • CHINA: China
  • EASTERN ASIA: Korea, Japan, Taiwan
  • RUSSIAN FAR EAST: Russian Federation [Primorye]
Asia-Tropical
  • INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: Bhutan
  • INDO-CHINA: Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
  • MALESIA: Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Papua New Guinea
Pacific
  • SOUTHWESTERN PACIFIC: New Caledonia, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu
Cultivated (also cult.)
Naturalized
Africa
  • SOUTHERN AFRICA: South Africa [Mpumalanga]
  • WEST TROPICAL AFRICA: Sierra Leone
Asia-Temperate
  • CAUCASUS: Azerbaijan, Georgia
  • MIDDLE ASIA: Tajikistan
Australasia
  • AUSTRALIA: Australia [New South Wales (n.e.), Queensland]
Europe
  • EAST EUROPE: Ukraine
Northern America
  • REGION: United States
Pacific
  • NORTH-CENTRAL PACIFIC: United States [Hawaii]
  • SOUTHWESTERN PACIFIC: American Samoa, Fiji, Niue, Tonga, Samoa
Southern America
  • CARIBBEAN: Hispaniola
  • MESOAMERICA: Panama
Economic Uses
Environmental
Medicines
folklore (fide Pl Res SEAs 12(1):417. 1999) –
Weed
(fide State Noxweed Seed, as P. lobata; Invasive Pl Spec) –


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