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|accepted_name=Pueraria
|accepted_authority=de Candolle
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Ann. Sci. Nat. (Paris)
|place=4: 97. 1825
|year=1825
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|common_names=Kudzu
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
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|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Fabaceae;Fabaceae subfam. Faboideae;Pueraria
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Fabaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Fabaceae subfam. Faboideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Pueraria]]</div></div>
|etymology=For Marc Nicolas Puerari, 1766–1845, Swiss naturalist and professor in Copenhagen
|volume=Volume 11
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Vines,</b> perennial [shrubs], robust, woody or coarsely herbaceous, to 30 m, unarmed; roots often tuberous. <b>Stems</b> climbing and creeping, glabrous or densely pubescent. <b>Leaves</b> alternate, odd-pinnate; stipules present, persistent, peltate, 8–16(–25) mm; petiolate; leaflets 3, stipels present, blades 8–20(–26) cm, margins lobed or entire, surfaces pubescent. <b>Inflorescences</b> 15–40-flowered, axillary or terminal, pseudoracemes, unbranched or paniculate; bracts present, caducous, ovate to lanceolate; bracteoles 2. <b>Flowers</b> papilionaceous, (2 or)3[4–10] per node; calyx campanulate, (6–)10–18 mm, lobes 5, adaxial ones ± connate, pubescent; corolla purplish, blue, or white, 10–25 mm, veins evident; stamens 10, monadelphous, vexillary stamen becoming distinct as ovary expands, distinct part upturned; anthers dorsifixed, on alternating long and short filaments; ovary elongate, pubescent. <b>Fruits</b> legumes, sessile, flattened, cylindrical [flattened-oblong], well exceeding calyx, dehiscent, with or without transverse lines between seeds, septate, pubescent. <b>Seeds</b> [2–](5–)10–15[–20], flattened-ovoid [oblong or barrel-shaped]. <b>x</b> = 11.</span><!--

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|distribution=Asia (China;India;Indochina;Japan;Malesia);Pacific Islands;introduced also in Mexico;s Europe;Pacific Islands;Australia.
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Species 19 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>Pueraria montana (kudzu) and P. phaseoloides (Roxburgh) Bentham have been widely spread by human activity from Asia to other continents. The latter species is now treated as Neustanthus phaseoloides (Roxburgh) Bentham.</p>
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name=Pueraria
|author=L. J. G. van der Maesen
|authority=de Candolle
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subfamily
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Fabaceae
|distribution=Asia (China;India;Indochina;Japan;Malesia);Pacific Islands;introduced also in Mexico;s Europe;Pacific Islands;Australia.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Ann. Sci. Nat. (Paris)
|publication year=1825
|special status=Introduced
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/master/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V11/V11_853.xml
|subfamily=Fabaceae subfam. Faboideae
|genus=Pueraria
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