Common name
English: Rattleweed
Mandarin: 吊裙草 (diao qun cao)
English: Rattleweed
Mandarin: 吊裙草 (diao qun cao)
Kingdom: Plantae (2592)
Phylum: Tracheophyta (2489)
Class: Magnoliopsida (2104)
Order: Fabales (236)
Family: Fabaceae (236)(family description)
Genus: Crotalaria (9)
Epithet: retusa L. (1)
Synonyms: Crotalaria hostmannii Steudel, Crotalaria retusifolia Stokes, Dolichos cuneifolius Forsskal, Lupinus cochinchinensis Lour.
cochinchinensis => from Cochinchina (old name for various southern regions of Vietnam)
cuneifolius => having wedge-shaped leaves
hostmannii => honors Friedrich Wilhelm Rudolf Hostmann (1794-1846), plant collector in South-America (Surinam)
retusa => blunted, with a slight notch at a rounded apex
retusifolia => having blunt leaves
Climate: sub-tropical
Habitat: mesophytic
Habit: herb
Flower colour: red, yellow
Check for Crotalaria retusa at
World Flora Online, GBIF or IPNILiterature