Pueraria
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 Kudzu flowers
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Pueraria is a genus of 15–20[1] species of plants native to Asia.
The genus is polyphyletic, with different species being related to species in Glycine (which includes soybean), Amphicarpaea, Nogra, Teyleria, Neonotonia, Pseudovigna, Pseudeminia, Pachyrhizus (which includes Jícama), and other genera of the tribe Phaseoleae.[2]
Plants that belong to this genus include:
- P. edulis Pamp.[3]
- P. lobata (Willd.) Ohwi[3] (Kudzu) (by some treated as P. montana var. lobata [4]
- P. mirifica
- P. montana (Lour.) Merr.[3]
- P. omeiensis Wang et Tang[3]
- P. peduncularis Grah.[3]
- P. phaseoloides (Roxb.) Benth.[3][5]
- P. thomsonii Benth.[3]
- P. tuberosa (Roxb.ex Willd.) DC.[1]
- P. wallichii (probably does not belong in Pueraria[2])
[edit] References
- ^ a b "Pueraria DC.". Flora of Pakistan.
- ^ a b Jeongran Lee and Theodore Hymowitz (2001). "A molecular phylogenetic study of the subtribe Glycininae (Leguminosae) derived from the chloroplast DNA rps16 intron sequences". American Journal of Botany 88: 2064–2073.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Pueraria". Chinese Plant Names.
- ^ "Pueraria montana var. lobata". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- ^ "Pueraria DC.". Taiwan Plant Names.
