- Family: Fabaceae Lindl.
Pueraria DC.
[FTEA]
Leguminosae, J. B. Gillett, R. M. Polhill & B. Verdcourt. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1971
- Morphology General Habit
- Robust climbers or trailers, the roots sometimes tuberous
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves large, pinnately 3-foliolate, the leaflets entire or sinuately lobed; stipules present, sometimes produced below the point of insertion; stipels present
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
- Inflorescences axillary, falsely racemose or paniculate, sometimes very long, the flowers often aggregated on nodose reduced side branches along the rhachis; bracts present, mostly small and soon falling; bracteoles present, sub-persistent or deciduous
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
- Calyx 5-lobed or appearing 4-lobed, the upper pair of lobes joined to form an entire or bifid lip
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
- Corolla small or medium-sized, mostly blue or purplish; standard rounded, with basal and mostly very marked inflexed auricles, but without appendages
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
- Vexillary filament usually joined to the tube but sometimes free; anthers uniform
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Pistil
- Ovary linear, many-ovuled, narrowed above; style curved, scarcely stiffened, widest at the base just above the narrowing of the ovary, gradually becoming filiform towards the apex; stigma terminal, minute, capitate, sometimes with some minute hairs
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Pods long and linear, compressed, many-seeded, pubescent
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
- Seeds small, oblong, subglobose or almost cylindrical, oftenminutely shagreened; hilum small, central, oblong-elliptic; rim-aril absent, but a small cartilaginous remnant of the funicle often present.
[LOWO]
Legumes of the World. Edited by G. Lewis, B. Schrire, B. MacKinder & M. Lock. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. (2005)
- Vernacular
- kudzu vine
- Habit
- Lianas, shrubs or climbing herbs, usually with large tuberous roots
- Ecology
- Seasonally dry tropical and subtropical forest, rain forest, forest margins and scrub vegetation, often on open limestone and in rocky areas
- Distribution
- Asia (lowland to montane Indian subcontinent, Indo-China, SW China, Malesia, Papuasia, Pacific); the Kudzu vine (P. montana (Lour.) Merr. var. lobata (Willd.) Maesen & S.M.Almeida) widespread to temperate E Asia, Australia and introduced into Africa and SE USA; tropical Kudzu (P. phaseoloides (Roxb.) Benth.) is widely introduced in Africa and the Neotropics
- Note
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Placed in subtribe Glycininae; Lee & Hymowitz (2001) show Pueraria to be polyphyletic, with species of the non-typical sections Breviramulae and Schizophyllon being basally branching to those of the typical section Pueraria; Doyle et al. (2003) resolve a Pueraria-Pseudovigna clade sister to an Amphicarpaea-Glycine clade, with Dumasia being sister to both these clades
Previous accounts of the Phaseoleae by Baudet (1978) and Lackey (1981) recognised 90 and 84 genera and c. 1540 and 1480 species respectively in the tribe. In an equivalent, i.e. traditionally held view of Phaseoleae, 89 genera and (1554)–1567–(1580) species are treated here (Table 9; Fig. 47). Changes between Baudet (1978) and this treatment are that eleven genera are now in synonymy or have subsequently been placed in Millettieae, two genera have been transferred from Desmodieae and eight new genera have been added. Vigna has traditionally been thought to comprise some 150–200 species, but Vigna sens. strict. may contain fewer than 100.
Recent molecular analyses of the tribe, however, have emphasised both the polyphyletic and paraphyletic nature of Phaseoleae as traditionally circumscribed (Bruneau & Doyle, 1990; Doyle & Doyle, 1993; Delgado Salinas et al., 1993; Bruneau et al., 1995; Doyle et al., 1997, 2000; Kajita et al., 2001; Goel et al., 2001; Lee & Hymowitz, 2001). This has required a radical realignment of elements of the phaseoloids (Table 9; Fig. 47), with at least two major clades being evident: Phaseoleae subtribes Diocleinae and Ophrestiinae which together with tribe Abreae are allied to the core-Millettieae (Fig. 45), and the remaining groups comprising a Phaseoleae sens. lat. clade. The rbcL phylogeny of Kajita et al. (2001) and the ITS analysis of Hu et al. (2002) are equivocal as to which clade subtribe Clitoriinae belongs. Phaseoleae sens. lat. also includes two traditionally independent tribes, the Desmodieae and Psoraleeae. Delimiting a recircumscribed Phaseoleae sens. strict is thus very problematic. A solution may be to recognise a broad tribe Phaseoleae, comprising the subtribes Kennediinae, Cajaninae, Phaseolinae and Glycininae, assorted basally branching genera, and tribes Desmodieae and Psoraleeae (both treated at subtribal level).
[FTEA]
Leguminosae, J. B. Gillett, R. M. Polhill & B. Verdcourt. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1971
- Morphology General Habit
- Perennial twining or procumbent herbs or in the case of G. max (L.) Merrill an annual erect herb
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves pinnately or, in 3 Australian species, digitately 3-foliolate; stipules small, deciduous; stipels present
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
- Inflorescences racemose or falsely racemose, axillary, the flowers sometimes fascicled along the rhachis, more rarely terminal and paniculate, or flowers solitary or in sessile axillary fascicles
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
- Flowers small, white to blue or purplish
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
- Calyx 5-lobed, somewhat 2-lipped; the upper pair of lobes joined, often almost for their entire length
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
- Standard obovate, rhomboid or round, slightly auriculate at the base, glabrous
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
- Vexillary stamen joined to others or sometimes becoming free with age; anthers uniform
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Pistil
- Ovary several-many-ovuled; style short, slender but not filiform, slightly incurved; stigma small, terminal, capitate
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Pod linear or oblong, subcylindrical or compressed, straight or falcate, ± thinly septate
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
- Seeds ovoid-oblong or subglobose; hilum short, lateral, with a small scale-like aril.
[LOWO]
Legumes of the World. Edited by G. Lewis, B. Schrire, B. MacKinder & M. Lock. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. (2005)
- Note
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Previous accounts of the Phaseoleae by Baudet (1978) and Lackey (1981) recognised 90 and 84 genera and c. 1540 and 1480 species respectively in the tribe. In an equivalent, i.e. traditionally held view of Phaseoleae, 89 genera and (1554)–1567–(1580) species are treated here (Table 9; Fig. 47). Changes between Baudet (1978) and this treatment are that eleven genera are now in synonymy or have subsequently been placed in Millettieae, two genera have been transferred from Desmodieae and eight new genera have been added. Vigna has traditionally been thought to comprise some 150–200 species, but Vigna sens. strict. may contain fewer than 100.
Recent molecular analyses of the tribe, however, have emphasised both the polyphyletic and paraphyletic nature of Phaseoleae as traditionally circumscribed (Bruneau & Doyle, 1990; Doyle & Doyle, 1993; Delgado Salinas et al., 1993; Bruneau et al., 1995; Doyle et al., 1997, 2000; Kajita et al., 2001; Goel et al., 2001; Lee & Hymowitz, 2001). This has required a radical realignment of elements of the phaseoloids (Table 9; Fig. 47), with at least two major clades being evident: Phaseoleae subtribes Diocleinae and Ophrestiinae which together with tribe Abreae are allied to the core-Millettieae (Fig. 45), and the remaining groups comprising a Phaseoleae sens. lat. clade. The rbcL phylogeny of Kajita et al. (2001) and the ITS analysis of Hu et al. (2002) are equivocal as to which clade subtribe Clitoriinae belongs. Phaseoleae sens. lat. also includes two traditionally independent tribes, the Desmodieae and Psoraleeae. Delimiting a recircumscribed Phaseoleae sens. strict is thus very problematic. A solution may be to recognise a broad tribe Phaseoleae, comprising the subtribes Kennediinae, Cajaninae, Phaseolinae and Glycininae, assorted basally branching genera, and tribes Desmodieae and Psoraleeae (both treated at subtribal level).
Glycine has had a convoluted taxonomic history; see also under Neonotonia - Vernacular
- soyabean
- Habit
- Twining herbs
- Ecology
- Seasonally dry tropical to warm temperate open woodland, thicket, wooded grassland, clearings, riverbanks and dry hillsides
- Distribution
- principally Australia (16 spp.), 2 of which widespread to Pacific Islands, Taiwan, Japan and S China; 2 spp. endemic to China, Taiwan, G. max (L.) Merr. (soyabean; soybean) from E Russia, Korea, China and Japan but widely cultivated
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Native to:
Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Bismarck Archipelago, Caroline Is., China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Hainan, India, Inner Mongolia, Japan, Jawa, Korea, Laos, Malaya, Maluku, Manchuria, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Northern Territory, Ogasawara-shoto, Pakistan, Philippines, Primorye, Solomon Is., Sulawesi, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet, Vanuatu, Vietnam, West Himalaya
Introduced into:
Alabama, Angola, Argentina Northeast, Arkansas, Bermuda, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Repu, Dominican Republic, Ethiopia, Fiji, Florida, Gabon, Georgia, Ghana, Gilbert Is., Hawaii, Honduras, Illinois, Kansas, Krym, Liberia, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Mozambique, New Jersey, New South Wales, New York, Nigeria, Niue, Norfolk Is., North Carolina, Northern Provinces, Nova Scotia, Oklahoma, Panamá, Pennsylvania, Queensland, Samoa, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Carolina, Sudan, Tadzhikistan, Tennessee, Texas, Tonga, Transcaucasus, Ukraine, Virginia, Wallis-Futuna Is., Yugoslavia, Zaïre
- Pueraria alopecuroides Craib
- Pueraria bella Prain
- Pueraria bouffordii H.Ohashi
- Pueraria calycina Franch.
- Pueraria candollei Wall. ex Benth.
- Pueraria edulis Pamp.
- Pueraria garhwalensis L.R.Dangwal & D.S.Rawat
- Pueraria grandiflora B.Pan bis & Bing Liu
- Pueraria imbricata Maesen
- Pueraria lacei Craib
- Pueraria maesenii Niyomdham
- Pueraria mirifica Airy Shaw & Suvat.
- Pueraria montana (Lour.) Merr.
- Pueraria neocaledonica Harms
- Pueraria pulcherrima Merr. ex Koord.-Schum.
- Pueraria sikkimensis Prain
- Pueraria tuberosa (Roxb. ex Willd.) DC.
- Pueraria xyzhui H.Ohashi & Iokawa
Pueraria DC. appears in other Kew resources:
First published in Ann. Sci. Nat. (Paris) 4: 97 (1825)
Literature
Flora of West Tropical Africa
- in Ann. Sci. Nat., ser. 1, 4: 97 (1825).
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- in Ann. Sci. Nat. 4: 97 (1825)
Flora of Tropical East Africa
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