Taxon: Crotalaria juncea L.

Common names:

• Indian-hemp   (Source: Trop Leg ) – English
  
• Madras-hemp   (Source: Trop Leg ) – English
  
• sann-hemp   (Source: Herbs Commerce ed2 ) – English
  
• sunn crotalaria   (Source: Federal Seed Act ) – English
  
• sunn-hemp   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• chanvre du Bengale   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• crotolaire jonciforme   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Sanhanf   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• san   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – India
  
• sunn   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – India
  
• cânhamo-da-Índia   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• crotalária   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• cáñamo san   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: soil improver   (green manure fide Dict Econ Pl; Cover Crop Database)
  
• Animal food: potential as forage   (fide Pl Res SEAs 4:98-100. 1992)
  
• Materials: fiber   (more enduring than jute fide Dict Econ Pl)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kellerman et al.; Lampe & McCann)
  

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View toxicology references for Crotalaria juncea from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Bangladesh; Bhutan; India - Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Delhi, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Orissa, Pondicherry, Punjab, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh

• cultivated throughout tropics

• exact native range in s. Asia obscure

References:

• Federal Seed Act and Regulations, Agricultural and Vegetable Kind Lists, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Marketing Service, Seed Regulatory and Testing Branch. (Federal Seed Act)
• 't Mannetje, L. & R. M. Jones, eds. 1992. Forages. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs) 4:98–100.
• Aubréville, A. et al., eds. 1960–. Flore du Cambodge du Laos et du Viet-Nam. (F CambLVN)
• Bernal M., H. Y. 1986. Crotalaria (Fabaceae - Faboideae). In: Pinto, P. & P. M. Ruiz, eds., Flora de Colombia. (F Colomb) 4:59.
• Duke, J. A. 1981. Handbook of legumes of world economic importance. (Leg WorldEc)
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13)
• Englert, J. M. et al. 1999–. USDA-NRCS Improved conservation plant materials released by NRCS and cooperators. (NRCS Cons Pl Mat)
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
• Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles. (F LAnt)
• Kumar, S & P. V. Sane. 2003. Legumes of South Asia: a checklist. (Leg SAsia)
• Lock, J. M. & K. Simpson. 1991. Legumes of West Asia: a checklist. (Leg WAsia)
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
• Matos G., F. 1978. El género Crotalaria en Venezuela. Acta Bot. Venez. 13:87.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan. (F Pak)
• National Academy of Sciences. 1979. Tropical legumes: resources for the future. (Trop Leg)
• Niyomdham, C. 1978. A revision of the genus Crotalaria Linn. (Papilionaceae) in Thailand. Thai Forest Bull., Bot. 11:135.
• Polhill, R. M. 1982. Crotalaria in Africa and Madagascar. (Crot Afr Madag) 372.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa. (F TE Afr)
• University of California Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program. UC SAREP on-line cover crop database. (Cover Crop Database)
• Uphof, J. C. T. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants, ed. 2. (Dict Econ Pl)
• Yang, C. Y. 1983. On the problems of the classification of Crotalaria in China. Bull. Bot. Res., Harbin 3(4):107.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Crotalaria juncea.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Crotalaria juncea. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for Crotalaria juncea L.:

• ILDIS: International Legume Database & Information Service
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images or nodulation data:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• GRIN nodulation data

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• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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