Taxon: Pueraria montana (Lour.) Merr. var. thomsonii (Benth.) M. R. Almeida

Summary

Genus:

Pueraria

Family:

Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae)

Subfamily:

Faboideae

Tribe:

Phaseoleae

Subtribe:

Glycininae

Nomen number:

414978

Place of publication:

Fl. Maharashtra 2:122. 1998 (D. B. Ward, Phytologia 84:386. 1999 ("1998"))

Verified:

10/05/1999 ARS Systematic Botanists.

Accessions:

0 (0 active, 0 available) in Nordic Baltic Genebanks.

Other conspecific taxa

Pueraria montana (Lour.) Merr. (0 active accession[s])
Pueraria montana (Lour.) Merr. var. lobata (Willd.) Maesen & S. M. Almeida ex Sanjappa & Predeep (0 active accession[s])
Pueraria montana (Lour.) Merr. var. montana (0 active accession[s])

Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations

Basionym
Pueraria thomsonii Benth.

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Pueraria lobata (Willd.) Ohwi var. thomsonii (Benth.) Maesen

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Pueraria montana (Lour.) Merr. var. chinensis auct.

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Reference(s)

American Herbal Products Association. 1992. Herbs of commerce Note: = Pueraria montana var. chinensis
Leung, A. Y. & S. Foster. 1996. Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in food, drugs, and cosmetics, ed. 2 Note: = Pueraria thomsonii
Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).

Common names

LANGUAGE	NAME	NOTE	SEQ	CITATION
Transcribed Chinese	fen ge	as P. thomsonii	2	Leung, A. Y. & S. Foster. 1996. Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in food, drugs, and cosmetics, ed. 2 Note: = Pueraria thomsonii
Transcribed Chinese	gan ge	as P. thomsonii	2	Leung, A. Y. & S. Foster. 1996. Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in food, drugs, and cosmetics, ed. 2 Note: = Pueraria thomsonii
Transcribed Chinese	gan ge teng		2	Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
Transcribed Chinese	mealy kudzu	as P. montana var. chinensis	2	American Herbal Products Association. 1992. Herbs of commerce Note: = Pueraria montana var. chinensis

Distribution

order_code	Status	Continent	Subcontinent	Country	State	Note
1	Native	Asia-Temperate	China	China
1	Native	Asia-Tropical	Indian Subcontinent	Bhutan
1	Native	Asia-Tropical	Indian Subcontinent	India		n.e.
1	Native	Asia-Tropical	Indo-China	Laos
1	Native	Asia-Tropical	Indo-China	Myanmar
1	Native	Asia-Tropical	Malesia	Philippines
4	Naturalized	Pacific	North-Central Pacific	United States	Hawaii

Native
Asia-Temperate

CHINA: China

Asia-Tropical

INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: Bhutan, India (n.e.)
INDO-CHINA: Laos, Myanmar
MALESIA: Philippines

Naturalized
Pacific

NORTH-CENTRAL PACIFIC: United States [Hawaii]

Economic Uses

Usage	Type	Note	Reference
Human food	starch	as Pueraria thomsonii	Leung, A. Y. & S. Foster. 1996. Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in food, drugs, and cosmetics, ed. 2
Human food	vegetable	as Pueraria thomsonii	Leung, A. Y. & S. Foster. 1996. Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in food, drugs, and cosmetics, ed. 2
Medicines	folklore	as Pueraria montana var. chinensis	McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2 American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, Maryland.

Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2024. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://nordic-baltic-genebanks.org/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=414978. Accessed 7 July 2024.