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Taxon:  Pueraria montana (Lour.) Merr. var. thomsonii (Benth.) M. R. Almeida



Summary
Genus:
Pueraria
Family:
Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae)
Subfamily:
Faboideae
Tribe:
Phaseoleae
Subtribe:
Glycininae
Nomen number:
414978
Place of publication:
Fl. Maharashtra 2:122. 1998 (D. B. Ward, Phytologia 84:386. 1999 ("1998"))
Verified:
10/05/1999 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0 (0  active, 0  available) in National Plant Germplasm System. 
Other conspecific taxa
Pueraria montana (Lour.) Merr. (0 active accession[s])
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])
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Basionym
Pueraria thomsonii Benth.

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Pueraria lobata (Willd.) Ohwi var. thomsonii (Benth.) Maesen

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Pueraria montana (Lour.) Merr. var. chinensis auct.
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Reference(s)
  1. American Herbal Products Association. Herbs of commerce. 1992
  2. Han, S.-F. & X.-Q. Zhou. 1990. Register of nodulation reports for leguminous trees and shrubs in China. J. Nanjing Forest. Univ. 14(3):84-90.
  3. Leung, A. Y. & S. Foster. Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in food, drugs, and cosmetics, ed. 2. 1996
  4. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
  5. Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. World economic plants: a standard reference (on-line edition) [medicinal plants only].
Common names
Transcribed Chinese
fen ge –
gan ge –
gan ge teng –
mealy kudzu –
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
1NativeAsia-TemperateChinaChina  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentBhutan  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndia  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndo-ChinaLaos  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndo-ChinaMyanmar  
1NativeAsia-TropicalMalesiaPhilippines  
4NaturalizedPacificNorth-Central PacificUnited StatesHawaii 
Native
Asia-Temperate
  • CHINA: China
Asia-Tropical
  • INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: Bhutan, India
  • INDO-CHINA: Laos, Myanmar
  • MALESIA: Philippines
Naturalized
Pacific
  • NORTH-CENTRAL PACIFIC: United States [Hawaii]
Economic Uses
UsageTypeNoteReference
Human foodstarch Leung, A. Y. & S. Foster. Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in food, drugs, and cosmetics, ed. 2. 1996
Human foodvegetable Leung, A. Y. & S. Foster. Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in food, drugs, and cosmetics, ed. 2. 1996
Medicinesfolklore McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. 2000
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2024. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: https://ausgenebank.agriculture.vic.gov.au/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=414978. Accessed 27 December 2024.

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