Plant Details

Accepted name:

Pueraria montana var. lobata (Willd.) Maesen & S.M.Almeida ex Sanjappa & Predeep [Fabaceae]

Source of taxonomy and confidence:

World Checklist: unpublished records ( )

Information about this plant:

Plants of the World Online

Infraspecies of:

Pueraria montana (Lour.) Merr.

Infraspecies:

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Pueraria montana var. montana

Pueraria montana var. thomsonii (Benth.) M.R.Almeida

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
aranyamudga	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
arkamath	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
arkmut	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
arrowroot, japanese	Other	The Plant-Book (Mabberley, 1996) Timber Press Plant Names (Erhardt et al., 2009) World Economic Plants (Wiersema et al., 2013)
chilg	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
cirupayaru	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
fen ge	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
gan ge teng	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
ge	Other	Med. Pls. Used by Maonan People in China. (Hong et al., 2015)
ge gen	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) TCM Plants for Syst. Bio. Evaluation (Eisenberg et al., 2011) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
ge hua	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
gegen	Other	Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014) Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015) Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China. (Zhang et al., 2014)
gégēn	Other	Medicinal Plants in China (WHO, 1997)
hrasva	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
jangli mung	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
janglimath	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
japanese arrowroot	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
kakamudga	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
karanjika	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kohasaru	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
koshila	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kshudrasaha	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kudsu	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
kudsubohne	Other	Timber Press Plant Names (Erhardt et al., 2009) World Economic Plants (Wiersema et al., 2013)
kudzu	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) World Economic Plants (Wiersema et al., 2013)
kudzu hemp	Other	Medicinal Plants in China (WHO, 1997)
kudzu vine	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
kudzu vine root	Other	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005)
kudzubohne	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
kudzuranker	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
kudzuvine root	Other	British Pharmacopoeia 2015, Vol. 4 (2014) European Pharmacopoeia, 7th edn. (2012) Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010)
kurangika	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kuzu	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
lobed kudzuvine	Other	Medicinal Plants in China (WHO, 1997) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
marjaragandhika	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
mealy kudzu	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
mom sran sde u i dab ma (d)	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
mudgaparni	Other	Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
mugani	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
mugawana	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
mungani	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
mungwan	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
narip payaru	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
naripayar	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
narippayaru	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
pani-pyre	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
panipayar	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
pillippersara	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
pueraria	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) World Economic Plants (Wiersema et al., 2013)
pueraria flower	Other	Korean Herbal Pharmacopoeia (2002)
pueraria radix	Pharmaceutical	Korean Pharmacopoeia, 9th edn. (2007)
pueraria root	Other	Japanese Pharmacopoeia 15th edn. (2006) Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 16th edn. (2012) Korean Pharmacopoeia, 9th edn. (2007)
puerariae flos	Pharmaceutical	Korean Herbal Pharmacopoeia (2002) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
puerariae lobatae radix	Pharmaceutical	European Pharmacopoeia, 7th edn. (2012) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015)
puerariae radix	Pharmaceutical	Japanese Pharmacopoeia 15th edn. (2006) Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 16th edn. (2012) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
radix puerariae	Pharmaceutical	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005)
radix puerariae lobatae	Pharmaceutical	Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014) Pharmacopoeia of China (2005)
ran-mat	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
ranamuga	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
ranmath	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
s.n mudagaparni	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
saha	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
sde u i dab ma	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
shimbi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
shimbiparni	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
shimbiparnika	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
shurpaparni	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
sisali	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
smon sran sde u i dab ma (p)	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
surpaparni	Other	Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
termei	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
trianguli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
tryangguli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vanajaringini	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vanamudga	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vanodbhava	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
vanya	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
wild blackgram	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
ye ge	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
カッコン	Other	Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 16th edn. (2012)
葛	Other	Med. Pls. Used by Maonan People in China. (Hong et al., 2015)
葛根	Other	Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014) Medicinal Plants in China (WHO, 1997) TCM Plants for Syst. Bio. Evaluation (Eisenberg et al., 2011) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018) Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China. (Zhang et al., 2014)
葛花	Other	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
野葛	Other	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
root	dried root	Pharmacopoeia of China (2010)
root		British Pharmacopoeia 2015, Vol. 4 (2014)
root	dried root	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005)
Tuber		Med. Pls. Used by Maonan People in China. (Hong et al., 2015)
Radix		Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China. (Zhang et al., 2014)
Whole plant		Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
flowers and buds	dried flowers and buds	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
root, root		Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
root		Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
Roots		Medicinal Plants in China (WHO, 1997)
root	dried root	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005)
root	root, periderm removed	Japanese Pharmacopoeia 15th edn. (2006)
bud		Korean Herbal Pharmacopoeia (2002)
Root, Whole Plant		Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008)
root		Korean Pharmacopoeia, 9th edn. (2007)
root		Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 16th edn. (2012)
root	Fragmented, dried root	European Pharmacopoeia, 7th edn. (2012)
root		Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 31 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

synonym
Phaseolus trilobus Aiton Hort. Kew. 3: 30 (1789).
Pueraria hirsuta (Thunb.) Matsum. Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 16): 91 (1902), nom. illeg.
Pueraria lobata (Willd.) Ohwi Bull. Tokyo Sci. Mus. 18: 16 (1947).
Pueraria montana var. chinensis (Ohwi) Maesen & S.M.Almeida ex Sanjappa & Predeep in M.Sanjappa, Legumes India: 288 (1992).
Pueraria pseudohirsuta T.Tang & F.T.Wang in Hu & Hsun, Native Forage Pl.: 678 (1955), nom. nud.
Pueraria thunbergiana (Siebold & Zucc.) Benth. J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 9: 122 (1867).
Pueraria triloba (Aiton) Makino in Y.Iinuma, Somoku-Dzusetsu, ed. 3, 3: 954 (1912).
Dioclea odorata Montrouz. Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. Lyon, Sect. Sci., sér. 2, 10: 174 (1860).
Dolichos hirsutus Thunb. Trans. Linn. Soc. London 2: 339 (1794).
Dolichos lobatus Willd. Sp. Pl., ed. 4, 3: 1047 (1802).
Dolichos stipulaceus Lam. Encycl. 2: 300 (1786).
Dolichos trilobus Houtt. Nat. Hist. 2(10): 153 (1779), nom. illeg.
Neustanthus chinensis Benth. Fl. Hongk.: 86 (1861).
Pachyrhizus thunbergianus Siebold & Zucc. Abh. Math.-Phys. Cl. Königl. Bayer. Akad. Wiss. 4(3): 237 (1846).
Phaseolus aconitifolius Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. 1832, 3: 299 (1832), nom. illeg.
Phaseolus cornutus Blume ex Miq. Fl. Ned. Ind. 1(1): 198 (1855).
Phaseolus ficifolius Schrank Denkschr. Königl.-Baier. Bot. Ges. Regensburg 2: 62 (1822).
Phaseolus lobatus (Willd.) Roxb. ex Wight & Arn. Prodr. Fl. Ind. Orient. 1: 247 (1834).
Pueraria argyi H.Lév. & Vaniot Bull. Soc. Bot. France 55: 426 (1908).
Pueraria bodinieri H.Lév. & Vaniot Bull. Soc. Bot. France 55: 425 (1908).
Pueraria caerulea H.Lév. & Vaniot Bull. Soc. Bot. France 55: 427 (1908).
Pueraria chinensis (Benth.) Ohwi Acta Phytotax. Geobot. 5: 63 (1936).
Pueraria harmsii Rech. Denkschr. Kaiserl. Akad. Wiss., Wien. Math.-Naturwiss. Kl. 85: 292 (1910).
Pueraria koten H.Lév. & Vaniot Bull. Soc. Bot. France 55: 426 (1908).
Pueraria lobata var. chinensis (Benth.) Ohwi Bull. Tokyo Sci. Mus. 18: 16 (1947).
Pueraria novoguineensis Warb. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 13: 325 (1891).
Pueraria thunbergii f. alba M.H.Lee Korean J. Pl. Taxon. 13: 109 (1983).
Pueraria triloba var. leucostachya Honda Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 45: 470 (1931).
Pueraria volkensii Hosok. Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Formosa 28: 62 (1938).
Vigna lobata (Willd.) Endl. ex Miq. Fl. Ned. Ind. 1(1): 188 (1855).
Vigna stipulacea (Lam.) Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 212 (1891).

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Phaseolum trilobus Aiton	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Phaseolus trilobus Aiton	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019)
Pueraria hirsuta (Thunb.) Schneid.	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Pueraria hirsuta (Thunb.) Schu.	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
Pueraria lobata	Conservation of Indonesian Medicinal Plants (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Substances in Medicines, Australia (TGA, 2007) Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China. (Zhang et al., 2014)
Pueraria lobata (Willd.) Ohwi	A Check-list of the Korean Cultivated Plants (Mun-Chan et al., 1986) Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2008) Demand & Supply of Med. Pl. in India (Ved et al., 2015) European Pharmacopoeia, 7th edn. (2012) Fijian Medicinal Plants (Cambie & Ash, 1994) Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014) Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Med. Pls. Used by Maonan People in China. (Hong et al., 2015) Medicinal Plants in China (WHO, 1997) Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Pueraria lobata (Willd.) Ohwi.	British Pharmacopoeia 2015, Vol. 4 (2014)
Pueraria lobata (Willd.)Ohwi	TCM Plants for Syst. Bio. Evaluation (Eisenberg et al., 2011)
Pueraria lobata Ohwi	Japanese Pharmacopoeia 15th edn. (2006) Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 16th edn. (2012) Korean Herbal Pharmacopoeia (2002) Korean Pharmacopoeia, 9th edn. (2007)
Pueraria lobata Owhi	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Pueraria montana (Lour.) Merr. var lobata (Willd.) Maesen & S.M. Almeida ex Sanjappa & Predeep	The Plant-Book (Mabberley, 1996) Timber Press Plant Names (Erhardt et al., 2009) World Economic Plants (Wiersema et al., 2013)
Pueraria montana (Lour.) Merr. var. chinensis Maesen & S.M.Almeida	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
Pueraria montana (Lour.) Merr. var. lobata	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Pueraria montana (Lour.) Merr. var. lobata (Willd.) Maesen & S. M. Almeida ex Sanjappa & Predeep	GRIN Report: World Economic Plants (Wiersema, 1999)
Pueraria montana (Lour.) Merr. var. lobata (Willd.) Maesen & S.M.Almeida	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
Pueraria montana var. chinensis (Ohwi) Sanjappa & Pradeep	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
Pueraria montana var. lobata (Willd.) Sanjappa & Pradeep	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
Pueraria pseudo-hirsuta Tang & Wang	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Pueraria pseudohirsuta	Substances in Medicines, Australia (TGA, 2007)
Pueraria pseudohirsuta Tang et Wang	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Pueraria thunbergiana	Conservation of Indonesian Medicinal Plants (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Pueraria thunbergiana (Sieb. & Zucc.) Benth.	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Pueraria thunbergiana Bentham	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Pueraria triloba	Conservation of Indonesian Medicinal Plants (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Pueraria triloba (Lour.) Makino	Conservation of Indonesian Medicinal Plants (Cahyaningsih, 2020)

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