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Glycine max ssp. soja

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(Siebold & Zuccarini) H. Ohashi

Propagation

S.

Cultivated

C, food, fodder

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Afghanistan
• Anhui
• Fujian
• Gansu
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Guizhiu
• Hebei
• Heilongjiang
• Hubei
• Hunan
• Jiangsu
• Jiangxi
• Jilin
• Liaoning
• Nei Mongol
• Ningxia
• Shaanxi
• Shandong
• Shanxi
• Sichuan
• Taiwan
• Xizang
• Yunnan
• Zhejiang - China
• Himalayas
• India
• Java - Indonesia
• Honshu
• Kyushu
• Shikoku - Japan
• Korea
• Philippines
• E. Siberia - Russia
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Disturbed areas
• thickets
• hedges
• riverside

Flowering Times

• Jul-Aug (China)
• Aug-Sep (Japan)

Fruiting Times

• Aug-Oct (China)

Wild form of soya bean, annual twining ferrugineus-hairy herb with trifoliolate leaves, mucronate leaflets hairy both sides to 90mm x 40mm. 130mm axillary racemes with 4-13 flowers, strigose bractlets to 1.5mm long. 7mm reddish-purple or white flowers, hairy strigose calyx to 5mm long, petals to 7mm, standard to 6mm long. Densely yellow-hairy dark brown flat pod to 43mm long x 8mm.

Further References

• Viking 1999
• FOC
• JDH
• The Plant List 2
• F Indochine
• FOJ
• Hermann