Taxon: Kummerowia stipulacea (Maxim.) Makino

Common names:

• Korean bush-clover   (Source: Leg Tex ) – English
  
• Korean lespedeza   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• Korean-clover   (Source: Leg NCarolin ) – English
  
• lespedeza della Corea   (Source: Mult Glossary Crops ) – Italian
  
• maruba-yahazu-sō   (Source: F JapanOhwi ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: erosion control   (fide CultTropS, as Lespedeza stipulacea)
  
• Animal food: fodder   (fide Food Feed Crops US)
  
• Animal food: forage   (grazing fide Leg WorldEc)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide F ChinaEng)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kingsbury, as Lespedeza stipulacea)
  

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View toxicology references for Kummerowia stipulacea from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Russian Far East: Russian Federation - Amur, Primorye
  China: China [except s.]
  Eastern Asia: Japan [Honshu, Kyushu]; Korea; Taiwan [c.]

• naturalized elsewhere

References:

• Afonin, A. N., S. L. Greene, N. I. Dzyubenko, & A. N. Frolov, eds. Interactive agricultural ecological atlas of Russia and neighboring countries. Economic plants and their diseases, pests and weeds (on-line resource).
• Duke, J. A. 1981. Handbook of legumes of world economic importance.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. [= Lespedeza stipulacea Maxim.].
• Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds. 1997. Auxiliary plants. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 11:167–170.
• Fu, Y. C. et al. 1977–. Flora intramongolica.
• Graham, E. H. 1941. Legumes for erosion control and wildlife. USDA Misc. Publ. 412. [= Lespedeza stipulacea Maxim.].
• Huang, S. F. & T. C. Huang. 1987. Taxonomic treatment of the Papilionoideae (Leguminosae) of Taiwan. Taiwania 32:11-117.
• Inst. Bot. V. L. Komarova, Acad. Sci. URSS. 1963–. Plantae asiae centralis.
• International Seed Testing Association. 1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
• Isely, D. 1955. The Leguminosae of the north-central United States 2. Hedysareae. Iowa State Coll. J. Sci. 30:104. [= Lespedeza stipulacea Maxim.].
• 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.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. [= Lespedeza stipulacea Maxim.].
• 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.
• Wilbur, R. L. 1963. Leguminous plants of North Carolina.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Kummerowia stipulacea.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Lespedeza stipulacea Maxim. (basionym)
  (previously associated with 64 accessions)

Check other web resources for Kummerowia stipulacea (Maxim.) Makino:

• 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:

• Seeds or fruits: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University
• GRIN nodulation data

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• 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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