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Pueraria montana var. thomsonii

(Benth.) M.R.Almeida (1998)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Rosids Order: Fabales Family: Fabaceae Genus: Pueraria

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form:

Stems: Stems somewhat woody, appressed pubescent, tubers fusiform, 60–90 cm long.

Roots:

Leaves: Surfaces pubescent. Leaflet margins entire to shallowly lobed.

Flowers: Calyx 5-lobed, with long, conspicuously imbricate lobes. Stamens 10; upper stamen connate at least at the middle to the other 9, which are connate into a tube.

Fruit:

Ploidy:

Habitat:

Elevation Range:

Historical Distribution

Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Statewide Status

Naturalized

Island Status

Kaua'i Naturalized
O'ahu Naturalized
Maui Naturalized
Hawai'i Potentially naturalizing

Dispersal Agents

Birds

Vegetative Reproduction

Pollinators

Notes

  • Description digitized by Olivia Kraus
  • up tp 700 m

Bibliography

Name Published In: Fl. Maharashtra 2: 122 (1998)

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:695 (O, M, H [as P. lobata var. lobata]), 695 (K [as P. lobata var. thomsoni]); Herbst & Wagner 1999:21 (COMBNOV, Syn. P. lobata var. lobata = P. montana var. lobata); Staples et al. 2002:11 (Syn. P. lobata var. thomsoni = P. montana var. chinensis, not followed); Frohlich & Lau 2012:39 (K [as P. m. var. lobata]); Faccenda, Arthur, et al. 2025:183 (P. m. var. lobata misapplied = P. m. var. thomsonii)

Occurrences

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