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Pueraria montana

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(Loureiro) Merrill

Common Names

• Ge (Pinyin)
• Kudzu

Geographical Habitats

• Fujian
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Guizhou
• Hainan
• Hongkong
• Hubei
• Hunan
• Jiangxi
• Sichuan
• Taiwan
• Yunnan
• Zhejiang - China
• Ryukyu Islands - Japan
• India
• Indonesia
• Laos
• Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Philippines
• Sri Lanka
• Thailand
• Vietnam
• Tropical Africa
• South Africa
• Gabon
• Ethiopia
• Tanzania
• Mozambique

Natural Habitats

• Thickets
• forests
• montane woodland

Flowering Times

• Jul-Sep (China) Nov (India)

Fruiting Times

• Oct-Dec (China)

Robust twining densely ferrugineus or grey-haired climber with tuberous roots, yellow hairy stems. Tomentose or glabrescent leaves with 3-lobed mucronate leaflets, terminal leaflet 100mm x 70mm. Axillary racemes, panicles or spikes up to 300mm long of 70-100 flowers, with bractlets to 3.5mm long. Small reddish or violet flowers to 15mm x 8mm, densely silky toothed calyx to 9mm long, white corolla aging reddish, standard to 8mm, petals to 15mm long, wings 5mm long. Hairy pods to 90mm x 8mm.

Further References

• Phytologia
• FOC
• JDH
• APDC
• The Plant List 2
• J.S. Gamble
• BF
• Botanicus
• F Indochine
• FOTA
• Hermann
• ILDIS