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Pueraria phaseoloides

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(Roxburgh) Bentham

Common Names

• Tropical Kudzu
• Indian Kudzu
• Khua Piet (Laos)
• Po Piet (Laos)
• San lie ye ye ge (Pinyin)
• Taw-pe (Myanmar)
• Dau dai (Vietnam)
• Dau ma (Vietnam)

Geographical Habitats

• Bhutan
• Cambodia
• Guangxi
• Guangdong
• Hainan
• Taiwan
• Yunnan
• Zhejiang-China
• Laos
• Vietnam
• Malaysia
• India
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• Philipines
• Thailand

Natural Habitats

• Montane thickets
• roadside
• wasteland
• forest margins.

Flowering Times

• Aug-Sep (China)

Fruiting Times

• Oct-Nov (China)

Tall herbaceous perennial brown-hairy twiner or liane, 250mm long axillary pseudo-racemes of 12mm flowers mauve & white, greenish-white with violet blotches, glabrous or villous calyx to 5mm long, petals to 13mm long x 10mm, fruit a hairy pod to 110mm long x 4mm, brown-hairy stems, trifoliolate leaves pubescent above, strigose beneath

Further References

• Bailey 1976
• Rubatzky 1997
• Mobot
• net
• FOC
• FI
• JDH
• FOSi
• The Plant List 2
• VOPR
• USNH
• F Indochine
• GBS