Uraria crinita (L.) Desv. ex Dc.

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Uraria

Characteristics

A shrub. It grows 1.5-2 m tall. It keeps growing from year to year. The leaves have 1-3 leaflets. The leaflets are finely hairy underneath. The flowers are pink or purple. Many flowers can occur together in a dense, erect raceme. The fruit are pods which have 5-7 joints. They are black.
Life form perennial
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Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 1.5 - 1.75
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Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
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Environment

Dry grassland, open forest, waste places, roadsides, sandy areas and occasionally in deciduous forest, but not in waterlogged locations, at elevations up to 1,500 metres.
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A tropical plant. It grows below 850 m in Southern China. It suits hardiness zones 10-12. In Yunnan.
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Hardiness (USDA) 10-12

Usage

Uses cover crop environmental use manure medicinal ornamental
Edible leaves roots
Therapeutic use Diarrhea (unspecified), Dysentery (unspecified), Fever (unspecified), Hepatomegaly (unspecified), Hepatosis (unspecified), Pediculicide (unspecified), Pimple (unspecified), Piscicide (unspecified), Splenomegaly (unspecified), Vermifuge (unspecified), Fistula (unspecified), Parturition (unspecified), Smallpox (unspecified), Tumor (unspecified)
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Cultivation

Plants are grown from seed.
Mode seedlings
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Images

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Uraria crinita unspecified picture

Distribution

Uraria crinita world distribution map, present in Angola, Australia, Benin, Burkina Faso, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Indonesia, India, Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Liberia, Sri Lanka, Mali, Myanmar, Mozambique, Mauritius, Malawi, Malaysia, Niger, Nigeria, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Rwanda, Sudan, Senegal, Singapore, Sierra Leone, Chad, Togo, Thailand, Taiwan, Province of China, Tanzania, United Republic of, Uganda, United States of America, and Viet Nam

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:524384-1
WFO ID wfo-0000192244
COL ID 7DP3G
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Wikipedia (EN)
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Uraria comosa Hedysarum crinitum Doodia crinita Onobrychis comosa Onobrychis crinita Hedysarum lanseum Uraria macrostachya Hedysarum comosum Uraria crinita var. macrostachya Uraria crinita