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Cajanus scarabaeoides

Botanic Family

Fabaceae

Author

(Linnaeus) Thouars

Common Names

• Peanut Grass
• Tropical Clover
• Man cao chong dou (Pinyin)
• Dâu tuong dai (Vietnam)
• Cây bày nô (Vietnam)
• Fausse Pistache Marronne
• Jangal Tor Jangli Tur
• Pistache Marronne
• Ram Kurti
• Vahi-tsokona
• Wal-kollu

Geographical Habitats

• Northern Territory
• Queensland
• Western Australia - Australia
• Bangladesh
• Bhutan
• Cambodia
• Comoros
• Fujian
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Guizhou
• Hainan
• Sichuan
• Taiwan
• Yunnan - China
• India
• Lesser Sunda Islands
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Ryukyu Islands - Japan
• Laos
• Madagascar
• Malacca - Malaysia
• Marianas
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• Pakistan
• New Guinea - Papua New Guinea
• Philippines
• Sri Lanka
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Coastal
• roadside
• grassland
• forest
• woodland
• pasture
• disturbed areas
• hedgerows
• thickets.

Flowering Times

• Sep-Nov (China)
• Jun-Oct (India)

Fruiting Times

• Oct-Dec (China)

Slender woody twining or prostrate herbaceous annual or biennial hairy scabrous twining vine with densely grey or yellow-downy stems. Trifoliolate leaves, leaflets silky downy, reticulated above, veiny beneath, terminal leaflet to 40mm x 30mm, lateral leaflets smaller. Densely rusty-pubescent 1-5 flowered axillary 20mm racemes or corymbs of 10mm reddish-orange to yellow flowers, calyx rusty-villous beneath, standard to 5mm wide, petals 8mm long. Mucronate brown densely red-villous sickle-shaped pod to 25mm long x 6mm constricted between seeds.

Known weed

Environmental, food & drink, forage, medicinal

Further References

• Mobot
• FCP
• NYBG
• FOC
• FI
• JDH
• APDC
• The Plant List 2
• J.S. Gamble
• BF
• Botanicus
• F Indochine
• GBS
• ILDIS
• Kew