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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Pueraria

Hierarchical position of the Genus Pueraria

Regnum  Plantae common name: The plant kingdom       Divisio  Magnoliophyta Cronquist syn. Angiospermophyta / Anthophyta pub. Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: angiosperms, flowering plants       Subdivisio  Magnoliophytina Frohne & U. Jensen ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: Angiosperms       Classis  Rosopsida Batsch pub. Dispos. Gen. Pl. Jenens.: 28. 1788.       Subclassis  Rosidae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 264. Jan-Mar 1967.       SuperOrdo  Fabanae R. Dahlgren ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 74: 179. 25 Mar 1993.       Ordo  Fabales Bromhead pub. Edinburgh New Philos. J. 25: 126. Jul 1838. common name: legumes       Familia  Fabaceae Lindl. pub. Intr. Nat. Syst. Bot., ed. 2: 148. Jul 1836. common name: Leguminosae       Familia  Leguminosae Juss. pub. Gen. Pl.: 345. 4 Aug 1789, nom. cons.       Genus  Pueraria DC. common name: kudzu

Named members of the Genus Pueraria

1	Species  hirsuta (Thunb.) C. Schneider syn. Pueraria montana var. lobata
2	Species  lobata (Willd.) Ohwi common name: ge gen  (Chinese), kudzu
	3    Varietas  thomsonii (Benth.) Maesen syn. Pueraria montana var. lobata
4	Species  montana (Lour.) Merr.
	5    Varietas  lobata (Willd.) Maesen & S. Almeida common name: kudzu
6	Species  phaseoloides (Roxb.) Benth. common name: tropical kudzu
7	Species  thunbergiana (Sieb. & Zucc.) Benth. syn. Pueraria montana var. lobata

Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.

Additional information is available in the commercial version of The Compleat Botanica software for species with this symbol.

For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.