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Taxon: Pueraria montana (Lour.) Merr. var. lobata (Willd.) Maesen & S. M. Almeida ex Sanjappa & Predeep

Genus: Pueraria
Family: Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae) subfamily: Faboideae tribe: Phaseoleae subtribe: Glycininae. Also placed in: Papilionaceae
Nomen number: 314966
Place of publication: M. Sanjappa, Legumes India 288. 1992 (L. J. G. van der Maesen & S. M. Almeida, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 85:233. 1988, nom. inval.)
Comment: Maesen & S. Almeida (1988) incorrectly cited the basionym as P. lobata var. lobata Ohwi
Name verified on: 21-Apr-1999 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 29-May-2007
Species priority site is: Southern Regional PI Station (S9).
Accessions: 4 in National Plant Germplasm System.
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SPECIES RESTRICTED BECAUSE STATE NOXIOUS WEED
A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:
IL(as Pueraria lobata)*, IN(as Pueraria lobata)*, KS(as Pueraria lobata)*°, MO(as Pueraria lobata)*, MS*, OR(as Pueraria lobata)*, PA(as Pueraria lobata)*, TX*, WA*, WV(as Pueraria thunbergiana)*.
ªAquatic. *Terrestrial. °In seed.
Link to noxious weed information from Invaders Database System
Link to species profile at National Invasive Species Information Center

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Common names:

  • kudsu   (Source: Hortus 3 [as P. lobata]) – English
  • kudzu   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  • kudzuranker   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 [as P. lobata]) – Afrikaans
  • ye ge   (Source: Pl Names ) – Transcribed Chinese
  • kuzu   (Source: F Japan [as P. lobata]) – Japanese Rōmaji
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Economic importance:


Distributional range:

      Native:
  • ASIA-TEMPERATE
    Russian Far East: Russian Federation - Primorye
    China: China
    Eastern Asia: Japan; Korea; Taiwan
  • ASIA-TROPICAL
    Indo-China: Thailand; Vietnam
    Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia; Papua New Guinea; Philippines
  • PACIFIC
    Southwestern Pacific: Fiji; New Caledonia; Solomon Islands; Tonga; Vanuatu

      Naturalized:
  • naturalized in Ukraine, Caucasus, c. Asia, s. Africa, United States (including Hawaii), Hispaniola, & Panama

References:


Synonyms:


Check other databases for Pueraria montana (Lour.) Merr. var. lobata (Willd.) Maesen & S. M. Almeida ex Sanjappa & Predeep:

  • PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
  • 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

Images or nodulation data:

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  • 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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USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
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?314966 (09 September 2010)

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