Taxon:
Pueraria montana (Lour.) Merr. var. montana
Summary
Verified:
04/21/1999
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Reference(s)
- Maesen, L. J. G. van der & S. M. Almeida. 1988. Two corrections to the nomenclature in revision of Pueraria DC. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 85:233.
- Maesen, L. J. G. van der. 1985. Revision of the genus Pueraria DC. with some notes on Teyleria Backer (Leguminosae). Agric. Univ. Wageningen Pap. 85-1:53-58.
- Maesen, L. J. G. van der. 1994. Pueraria, the kudzu and its relatives: an update of the taxonomy. 66. Note: in M. Sørensen, Proc. 1st Int. Symp. Tuberous Legumes
- Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource). URL: http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Frontpage.html
Common names
English
Taiwan kudzu –
wild kudzu –
Transcribed Chinese
shan ge teng –
Distribution
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Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
Native | Asia-Temperate | China | China | | e. & s. |
Native | Asia-Temperate | China | Hong Kong | | |
Native | Asia-Temperate | Eastern Asia | Japan | Ryukyu Islands | |
Native | Asia-Temperate | Eastern Asia | Taiwan | | |
Native | Asia-Tropical | Indo-China | Laos | | |
Native | Asia-Tropical | Indo-China | Myanmar | | |
Native | Asia-Tropical | Indo-China | Thailand | | |
Native | Asia-Tropical | Indo-China | Vietnam | | |
Native | Asia-Tropical | Malesia | Philippines | | |
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Native
Asia-Temperate
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CHINA:
China (e. & s.), Hong Kong
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EASTERN ASIA:
Japan [Ryukyu Islands], Taiwan
Asia-Tropical
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INDO-CHINA:
Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
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MALESIA:
Philippines
Economic Uses
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Usage | Type | Note | Reference |
Medicines | folklore | as Pueraria omeiensis | Bensky, D., A. Gamble, & T. J. Kaptchuk. 1993. Chinese herbal medicine: Materia medica, rev. ed. Note: Eastland Press, Seattle |
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