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Lespedeza pilosa (Thunb.) Siebold & Zucc.

Species

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Characteristics

Herbs, perennial, densely villous throughout. Stems pro­cumbent, 60-100 cm, slender. Leaves 3-foliolate; petiole 0.6-1.5 cm; leaflets broadly obovate or obovate, terminal one 1.5-2 × 1-1.5 cm, base rounded or subrounded, apex rounded, sub­rounded, or emarginate, mucronate. Racemes axillary, shorter than leaves; peduncle short. Calyx 5-parted; lobes lanceolate, upper 2 connate at base. Corolla yellowish white or white; stan­dard elliptic, 7-8 mm, clawed; wings shorter than standard and keel. Cleistogamous flowers often 1-3, crowded in leaf axils on upper stem, sessile or subsessile, fruit-bearing. Legume broadly ovoid, 3-4 mm, convex, both surfaces densely villous, apex acute-rostrate. Fl. Jul-Sep, fr. Sep-Oct. 2n = 20.
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A herb which keeps growing from year to year. The stems lie along the ground and are slender. They are 60-100 cm long. The leaves have 3 leaflets. These are broadly oval and the end leaflet is 2 cm long by 1-1.5 cm wide. The flowers are in the axils of the leaves. They are yellowish white. The pod is oval and 3-4 mm across.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support -
Foliage retention -
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination entomogamy
Spread -
Mature width (meter) 0.5
Mature height (meter) 0.6
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color -
Blooming months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Fruit color -
Fruiting months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Nitrogen fixer
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

Thickets, waste slopes and grasslands; at elevations up to 1,000 metres in Anhui, Fujian, Gansu, Guangdong, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Xizang and Zhejiang Provinces.
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It is a temperate plant. It grows in waste land and grasslands below 1000 m altitude in central China. In Sichuan.
Light 7-9
Soil humidity 4-6
Soil texture 3-6
Soil acidity 3-7
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 6-10

Usage

Uses medicinal
Edible leaves
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings. Seeds needs soaking.
Mode cuttings seedlings
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment soaking
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

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Distribution

Lespedeza pilosa world distribution map, present in China, Japan, and Korea (Republic of)

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:502543-1
WFO ID wfo-0000185061
COL ID 6PRHD
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Lespedeza sylvestris Desmodium pilosum Lespedeza nantcianensis Hedysarum pilosum Hedysarum pilosum Lespedeza pilosa var. erecta Lespedeza pilosa var. latifolia Lespedeza pilosa Lespedeza pilosa var. pedunculata
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