Taxon: Astragalus sinicus L.

 
Genus: Astragalus
Family: Fabaceae (alt.Leguminosae)
Subfamily: Faboideae
Subtribe: Astragalinae
Nomen number: 100402
Place of publication: Mant. pl. 1:103. 1767
Link to protologue:
Typification:
Name Verified on: 07-feb-1989 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last Changed: 13-mar-2006
Species priority site is: Western Regional PI Station (W6)
Accessions: 0 in National Plant Germplasm System

Synonyms:

Common names:

  • Chinese milk-vetch  (Source: Dict Rehm) - English
  • Milchwicke  (Source: UPOV) - German
  • genge  (Source: F JapanOhwi) - Japanese Rōmaji
  • renge-sō  (Source: F JapanOhwi) - Japanese Rōmaji
  • jaunyeong  (Source: F Korea) - Transcribed Korean

Economic Importance:

  • Environmental: soil improver (cult. as green manure fide F JapanOhwi)
  • Medicines: folklore (fide Dict Econ Pl)

Distributional Range:

    Native

    Asia-Temperate
    • CHINA: China [Zhejiang, Hubei, Guizhou, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guangxi]
    • EASTERN ASIA: Taiwan (n. & c.)

    Asia-Tropical
    • INDO-CHINA: Vietnam (n.)


    Cultivated

    Asia-Temperate
    • EASTERN ASIA: Japan


    Naturalized

    Asia-Temperate
    • EASTERN ASIA: Japan


References:

  1. Aubréville, A. et al., eds. Flore du Cambodge du Laos et du Viet-Nam. 1960- (F CambLVN)
  2. Chinese Academy of Sciences Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. 1959- (F China)
  3. Lee, Y. N. Flora of Korea. (F Korea)
  4. Office of the Union UPOV: International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants. List of the taxa protected by the members of the Union. 2009 (UPOV)
  5. Ohwi, J. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.). (F JapanOhwi)
  6. Rehm, S. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994 (Dict Rehm)
  7. Uphof, J. C. T. Dictionary of economic plants, ed. 2. 1968 (Dict Econ Pl)

Check other web resources for Astragalus sinicus L. :

  • TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
  • ILDIS: International Legume Database & Information Service
  • Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Databas of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2024. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: http://germoplasma.iniaf.gob.bo/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=100402. Accessed 11 mayo 2024.