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Pueraria montana var. lobata
Pueraria montana var. lobata
- Botanic Family
- Leguminosae
- Author
- (Willdenow) Maesen & S.M. Almeida ex Sanjappa & Pradeep
Common Names
- Kudzu Vine
- Japanese Arrowroot
- Kudsu
- Fankot
- Ko
- Kuzu (Japan)
- Ba'ay (Tukukan)
- Ge ma mu (Pinyin)
- Taw-matpe (Myanmar)
- Aka
- Kopou-Bohne
- Kudzu
- Kudzu Bean
- Kudzu Hemp
- Kudzu-Bohne
- Opornik Latkowaty
- Pueraria
- Pueraria Lopastnaya
- Pueraria Volosistaya
- Tykly Pueraria
Geographical Habitats
- Australia
- China except Qinghai
- Xinjiang
- Xizang
- Ethiopia
- India
- Java - Indonesia
- Hokkaido
- Honshu
- Kyushu
- Ryukyu Islands
- Shikoku - Japan
- Korea
- Malaysia
- Mozambique
- Myanmar
- New Guinea
- Philippines
- Solomon Islands
- South Africa
- Tonga
- Vanuatu
Natural Habitats
- Thickets
- montane forest
- grassland
- wasteland
- riverside
- coastal
- rain forest disturbed forest
- woodland.
Flowering Times
- Jul-Sep (Japan)
- Sep-Oct (China)
- Mar (Vanuatu)
- Feb (Papua New Guinea)
Fruiting Times
Twining or sprawling tomentose herb with hirsute stems, trifoliolate leaves, trilobate mucronate leaflets villous both surfaces, central leaflet 150mm x 50mm. 300mm axillary racemes with bracts to 10mm x 3mm and bracteoles, fragrant 20mm blue, yellow-green or purple to pink flowers, 12mm standard, calyx to 4mm, petals to 10mm, hairy or glabrous flat brown pods to 90mm long x 11mm ending in hooked mucrone
Further References
- Sturtevant 1919
- Rehder 1934
- Menninger 1970
- Bailey 1976
- Krussmann 1976
- Huxley 1992
- Rubatzky 1997
- FOH
- RHS A-Z
- FOC
- APDC
- J.S. Gamble
- The Plant List 2
- BF
- USNH
- Botanicus
- F Indochine
- FOTA
- JAA
- FOJ
- ILDIS