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Taxon: Kummerowia striata (Thunb.) Schindl.

Genus: Kummerowia
Family: Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae) subfamily: Faboideae tribe: Desmodieae subtribe: Lespedezinae. Also placed in: Papilionaceae
Nomen number: 21266
Place of publication: Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 10:403. 1912
Name verified on: 16-Mar-1988 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 22-May-1997
Species priority site is: Southern Regional PI Station (S9).
Accessions: 33 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.


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

Economic importance:


Distributional range:

      Native:
  • 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:
  • naturalized elsewhere

References:

  • Aubréville, A. et al., eds. 1960–. Flore du Cambodge du Laos et du Viet-Nam. (F CambLVN)
  • Duke, J. A. 1981. Handbook of legumes of world economic importance. (Leg WorldEc)
  • Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds. 1997. Auxiliary plants. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs) 11:167.
  • Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. (Atlas WWeed)
  • Huang, S. F. & T. C. Huang. 1987. Taxonomic treatment of the Papilionoideae (Leguminosae) of Taiwan. Taiwania 32:11-117. (Leg Taiwan)
  • Jiangsu Inst. Bot., ed. v. 1; Shan. R. H., ed. v. 2. 1977–1982. Jiangsu Zhiwuzhi (Flora of Jiangsu). (F Chiangsu)
  • Kitagawa, M. 1979. Neo-lineamenta florae Manshuricae. (F Manshur)
  • Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR)
  • Li, H. L. et al., eds. 1975–1979. Flora of Taiwan. (F Taiwan)
  • Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
  • Ohashi, H. et al. 1981. Advances in legume systematics. (Adv Leg Syst) 1:300. [accepts Kummerowia as segregate of Lespedeza].
  • Ohwi, J. 1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.). (F JapanOhwi)
  • Turner, B. L. 1959. The legumes of Texas. (Leg Tex)
  • Walker, E. 1976. Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands. (F Okin) [= Lespedeza striata (Thunb. ex Murray) Hook. & Arn.].
  • Wilbur, R. L. 1963. Leguminous plants of North Carolina. (Leg NCarolin)
More:

Synonyms:


Check other databases for Kummerowia striata (Thunb.) Schindl.:

  • TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
  • 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:

More:
  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • Google 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.

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Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?21266 (09 February 2010)

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