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Taxon:  Pueraria montana (Lour.) Merr.



Summary
Genus:
Pueraria
Family:
Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae)
Subfamily:
Faboideae
Tribe:
Phaseoleae
Subtribe:
Glycininae
Nomen number:
30355
Place of publication:
Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. ser. 2, 24(2):210. 1935
Verified:
04/21/1999 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0 (0  active, 0  available) in National Plant Germplasm System. 
Other conspecific taxa
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])
Pueraria montana (Lour.) Merr. var. thomsonii (Benth.) M. R. Almeida (0 active accession[s])
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
No images


Reference(s)
  1. Aubréville, A. et al., eds. 1960-. Flore du Cambodge du Laos et du Viet-Nam.
  2. Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6 2:718.
  3. Kumar, S & P. V. Sane. 2003. Legumes of South Asia: a checklist.
  4. Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia
  5. Li, H. L. et al., eds. 1975-1979. Flora of Taiwan.
  6. Lock, J. M. & C. S. Ford. 2004. Legumes of Malesia: a checklist
  7. Lock, J. M. & J. Heald. 1994. Legumes of Indochina: a checklist
  8. 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.
  9. 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. Note: = Pueraria lobata var. montana (Lour.) Maesen
  10. Maesen, L. J. G. van der. 1994. Pueraria, the kudzu and its relatives: an update of the taxonomy. 65. Note: in M. Sørensen, Proc. 1st Int. Symp. Tuberous Legumes
  11. Padua, L. S. de et al., eds. 1999. Medicinal and poisonous plants 1. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 12(1):417.
  12. Personal Care Products Council. INCI
  13. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
  14. Seed Regulatory and Testing Division, Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S.D.A. State noxious-weed seed requirements recognized in the administration of the Federal Seed Act (updated annually).
  15. Verdcourt, B. 1966. A proposal concerning Glycine L. Taxon 15:34-36.
  16. Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds
  17. Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition).
Common names
English
kudzu –
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
1NativeAsia-TemperateChinaChina  
1NativeAsia-TemperateEastern AsiaJapan  
1NativeAsia-TemperateEastern AsiaKorea  
1NativeAsia-TemperateEastern AsiaTaiwan  
1NativeAsia-TemperateRussian Far EastRussian FederationPrimorye 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentBhutan  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndo-ChinaLaos  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndo-ChinaMyanmar  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndo-ChinaThailand  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndo-ChinaVietnam  
1NativeAsia-TropicalMalesiaIndonesia  
1NativeAsia-TropicalMalesiaMalaysia  
1NativeAsia-TropicalMalesiaPhilippines  
1NativeAsia-TropicalPapuasiaPapua New Guinea  
1NativeAsia-TropicalPapuasiaSolomon Islands  
1NativePacificSouthwestern PacificNew Caledonia  
1NativePacificSouthwestern PacificVanuatu  
2Cultivated    also cult.
4NaturalizedAfricaSouthern AfricaSouth AfricaMpumalanga 
4NaturalizedAfricaWest Tropical AfricaSierra Leone  
4NaturalizedAsia-TemperateCaucasusAzerbaijan  
4NaturalizedAsia-TemperateCaucasusGeorgia  
4NaturalizedAsia-TemperateMiddle AsiaTajikistan  
4NaturalizedAustralasiaAustraliaAustraliaNew South Walesn.e.
4NaturalizedAustralasiaAustraliaAustraliaQueensland 
4NaturalizedEuropeEastern EuropeUkraine  
4NaturalizedNorthern America United States  
4NaturalizedPacificNorth-Central PacificUnited StatesHawaii 
4NaturalizedPacificSouthwestern PacificFiji  
4NaturalizedPacificSouthwestern PacificNiue  
4NaturalizedPacificSouthwestern PacificSamoa  
4NaturalizedPacificSouthwestern PacificTonga  
4NaturalizedPacificSouthwestern PacificUnited StatesAmerican Samoa 
4NaturalizedSouthern AmericaCaribbeanHispaniola  
4NaturalizedSouthern AmericaCentral AmericaPanama  
Native
Asia-Temperate
  • RUSSIAN FAR EAST: Russian Federation [Primorye]
  • CHINA: China
  • EASTERN ASIA: Korea, Japan, Taiwan
Asia-Tropical
  • INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: Bhutan
  • PAPUASIA: Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands
  • INDO-CHINA: Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
  • MALESIA: Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines
Pacific
  • SOUTHWESTERN PACIFIC: New Caledonia, Vanuatu
Cultivated (also cult.)
Naturalized
Africa
  • WEST TROPICAL AFRICA: Sierra Leone
  • SOUTHERN AFRICA: South Africa [Mpumalanga]
Asia-Temperate
  • CAUCASUS: Azerbaijan, Georgia
  • MIDDLE ASIA: Tajikistan
Australasia
  • AUSTRALIA: Australia [New South Wales (n.e.), Queensland]
Europe
  • EASTERN EUROPE: Ukraine
Northern America
  • REGION: United States
Pacific
  • NORTH-CENTRAL PACIFIC: United States [Hawaii]
  • SOUTHWESTERN PACIFIC: Fiji, Niue, Tonga, United States [American Samoa], Samoa
Southern America
  • CARIBBEAN: Hispaniola
  • CENTRAL AMERICA: Panama
Economic Uses
UsageTypeNoteReference
Environmentalerosion control Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds
Environmentalornamental Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds
Medicinesfolklore Padua, L. S. de et al., eds. 1999. Medicinal and poisonous plants 1. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 12(1):417.
Weed  Seed Regulatory and Testing Division, Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S.D.A. State noxious-weed seed requirements recognized in the administration of the Federal Seed Act (updated annually).
Weed as Pueraria lobataWeber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2025. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: https://grip.mawarid.gov.om/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=30355. Accessed 4 May 2025.