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
  
• shu ma   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• 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
  
• sunnhampa   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

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)
  

More:

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.
• 't Mannetje, L. & R. M. Jones, eds. 1992. Forages. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 4:98–100.
• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Aubréville, A. et al., eds. 1960–. Flore du Cambodge du Laos et du Viet-Nam.
• Bernal M., H. Y. 1986. Crotalaria (Fabaceae - Faboideae). In: Pinto, P. & P. M. Ruiz, eds., Flora de Colombia. 4:59.
• Duke, J. A. 1981. Handbook of legumes of world economic importance.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Englert, J. M. et al. 1999–. USDA-NRCS Improved conservation plant materials released by NRCS and cooperators.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles.
• Kellerman, T. S. et al. 1988. Plant poisonings and mycotoxicoses of livestock in Southern Africa. [poisonous].
• Kumar, S & P. V. Sane. 2003. Legumes of South Asia: a checklist.
• Lampe, K. F. & M. A. McCann. 1985. AMA handbook of poisonous and injurious plants. [poisonous].
• Lock, J. M. & K. Simpson. 1991. Legumes of West Asia: a checklist.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• 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.
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
• National Academy of Sciences. 1979. Tropical legumes: resources for the future.
• 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. 372.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
• University of California Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program. UC SAREP on-line cover crop database (on-line resource).
• Uphof, J. C. T. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants, ed. 2.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
• Yang, C. Y. 1983. On the problems of the classification of Crotalaria in China. Bull. Bot. Res., Harbin 3(4):107.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Crotalaria juncea.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Crotalaria juncea.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Crotalaria juncea.

Check other web resources for Crotalaria juncea L.:

• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• ILDIS: World Database of Legumes
• 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.

Images or nodulation data:

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

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• 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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