Common name
English: Cat's Tail Bean
Mandarin: 猫尾草 (mao wei cao)
English: Cat's Tail Bean
Mandarin: 猫尾草 (mao wei cao)
Kingdom: Plantae (2715)
Phylum: Tracheophyta (2630)
Class: Magnoliopsida (2217)
Order: Fabales (244)
Family: Fabaceae (244)(family description)
Genus: Uraria (5)
Epithet: crinita (L.) DC. (1)
Synonyms: Doodia crinita Roxb., Hedysarum crinitum L., Uraria comosa DC., Uraria macrostachya Wall.
comosa => referring to hair
crinita => mane-like, long haired
crinitum => mane-like, long haired
macrostachya => macro, meaning large, and stachya, spike-shaped, referring the the size and the shape of the inflorescence
Climate: tropical
Habit: herb
Flower colour: violet
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