Talk:Pueraria

Pueraria thunbergiana[edit]

Should Pueraria thunbergiana be added? Badagnani (talk) 02:03, 26 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't run into it in the sources I just added (I don't think), but if there is a source for its existence, sure. Without a source, there is little way of knowing whether it is a synonym for one of the species we already list. Kingdon (talk) 15:27, 26 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I reckon that it's better to let botanists to decide. Here are the refs

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&newwindow=1&q=allintitle%3A+Pueraria+thunbergiana&btnG=Search&as_sdt=2000&as_ylo=&as_vis=0

--222.64.18.248 (talk) 07:54, 29 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The papers in the first page of results were all in medical journals, not botanical ones. It is a synonym for Pueraria montana var. lobata, per ILDIS and GRIN. Kingdon (talk) 15:26, 15 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The Chinese translation of the species are based on the following....[edit]

http://nbyiyao.nbsme.gov.cn/zcfg/cyzc/1158101220.htm

--222.64.18.248 (talk) 06:19, 29 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]