Taxon: Kummerowia striata (Thunb.) Schindl.

Common names:

• annual lespedeza   (Source: Leg WorldEc ) – English
  
• common lespedeza   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• Japanese bush-clover   (Source: Leg Tex ) – English
  
• Japanese lespedeza   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• Japanese-clover   (Source: Leg NCarolin ) – English
  
• striate lespedeza   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• lespedeza del Giappone   (Source: Mult Glossary Crops ) – Italian
  
• yahazu-sō   (Source: F JapanOhwi ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• japansk buskklöver   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: erosion control   (fide CultTropS, as Lespedeza striata)
  
• Animal food: fodder   (fide Food Feed Crops US)
  
• Animal food: forage   (fide Food Feed Crops US)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide F ChinaEng)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Atlas WWeed)
  

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Russian Far East: Russian Federation - Amur, Primorye, Sakhalin
  China: China
  Eastern Asia: Japan [incl. Ryukyus]; Korea; Taiwan [n.]
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indo-China: Vietnam

• naturalized elsewhere

References:

• 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.
• Duke, J. A. 1981. Handbook of legumes of world economic importance.
• Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds. 1997. Auxiliary plants. P. 11:167 in: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA).
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds.
• Huang, S. F. & T. C. Huang. 1987. Taxonomic treatment of the Papilionoideae (Leguminosae) of Taiwan. Taiwania 32:11-117.
• International Seed Testing Association. 1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
• Jiangsu Inst. Bot., ed. v. 1; Shan. R. H., ed. v. 2. 1977–1982. Jiangsu Zhiwuzhi (Flora of Jiangsu).
• Kitagawa, M. 1979. Neo-lineamenta florae Manshuricae.
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Li, H. L. et al., eds. 1975–1979. Flora of Taiwan.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Ohashi, H. et al. 1981. Tribe 9. Desmodieae (Benth.) Hutch. Advances in legume systematics. 1:300. [accepts Kummerowia as segregate of Lespedeza].
• Ohashi, H. 2012. Review of Fabaceae Japan, Taiwan data for World Economic Plants, ed. 2. pers. comm.
• Ohwi, J. 1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.).
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Turner, B. L. 1959. The legumes of Texas.
• Walker, E. 1976. Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands. [= Lespedeza striata (Thunb. ex Murray) Hook. & Arn.].
• Wilbur, R. L. 1963. Leguminous plants of North Carolina.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Kummerowia striata.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Kummerowia striata.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Kummerowia striata.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Hedysarum striatum Thunb. (basionym)
  
• (=) Kummerowia striata var. kobe hort.
  
• (≡) Lespedeza striata (Thunb.) Hook. & Arn.
  (previously associated with 68 accessions)
• (=) Lespedeza striata var. kobe hort.
  

Check other web resources for Kummerowia striata (Thunb.) Schindl.:

• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• 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:

• Forestry Images: from www.forestryimages.org
• Seeds or fruits: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University
• 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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