Pueraria montana

Taxonavigation

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Taxonavigation: Fabales 
Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Rosids
Cladus: Eurosids I
Ordo: Fabales

Familia: Fabaceae
Subfamilia: Faboideae
Tribus: Phaseoleae
Subtribus: Glycininae
Genus: Pueraria
Species: P. alopecuroides – P. bella – P. bouffordii – P. calycina – P. candollei – P. edulis – P. garhwalensis – P. grandiflora – P. imbricata – P. lacei – P. maesenii – P. mirifica – P. montana – P. neocaledonica – P. pulcherrima – P. sikkimensis – P. tuberosa – P. xyzhui

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Unresolved names: P. peduncularis – P. stricta – P. wallichii

Name

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Pueraria DC., 1825

  • Type species: Hedysarum tuberosum Roxb. ex Willd. LT designated by Burkart, Las Leguminosas Argentinas 544 (1943)

Synonyms

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  • Bujacia E.Mey.
  • Glycine L.
  • Zeydora Lour. ex Gomes Mach.

Distribution

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Native distribution areas:
  • Continental: Asia to W. Pacific
    • Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Bismarck Archipelago, Caroline Is., China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Hainan, India, Inner Mongolia, Japan, Jawa, Korea, Laos, Malaya, Maluku, Manchuria, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Northern Territory, Ogasawara-shoto, Pakistan, Philippines, Primorye, Solomon Is., Sulawesi, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet, Vanuatu, Vietnam, West Himalaya
  • Introduced into:
    • Alabama, Angola, Argentina Northeast, Arkansas, Bermuda, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Dominican Republic, Ethiopia, Fiji, Florida, Gabon, Georgia, Ghana, Gilbert Is., Hawaii, Honduras, Illinois, Kansas, Krym, Liberia, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Mozambique, New Jersey, New South Wales, New York, Nigeria, Niue, Norfolk Is., North Carolina, Northern Provinces, Nova Scotia, Oklahoma, Panamá, Pennsylvania, Queensland, Samoa, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Carolina, Sudan, Tadzhikistan, Tennessee, Texas, Tonga, Transcaucasus, Ukraine, Virginia, Wallis-Futuna Is., Yugoslavia, Zaïre

References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

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Vernacular names

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suomi: Kudzut
magyar: Fojtóbabok
日本語: クズ属
ქართული: პუერარია
polski: Opornik
svenska: Kudzubönssläktet
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