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Characterization of Cajanus scarabaeoides growing in Yuanjiang county of Yunnan province in China

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Title Characterization of Cajanus scarabaeoides growing in Yuanjiang county of Yunnan province in China
 
Creator Saxena, K B
Zhou, Chaohong
Zhang, Chunhua
Li, Zhenghong
Zhang, Jianyun
Liu, Xiouxian
 
Subject Pigeonpea
 
Description In Yuanjiang, Yunnan, China, C. scarabaeoides is found in abundance in open grasslands and dry scrub vegetation on hill slopes and ridges between cultivated fields. It is also located along roadsides, foot paths or convex rides where reasonable amount of sunlight is available. This creeper-climber, supported by grass and small shrubs have: either straight or winding branches which are woody at the base; pinnately trifoliate leaves with white-pubescent lower and upper surfaces; obovate end leaflet; short racemes; indeterminate and sporadic flowering habit; oblong, purple to dark purple pods; rectangular to rounded seeds; and yellow or creamish yellow flowers with dense sun-red veins. Its mean protein content is 21.88% in the seed and 13.23% in the dried leaves. It may be used as medicine for diarrhoea in cattle, and as a traditional Chinese medicine for improving indigestion and diuresis.
 
Publisher International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)
 
Date 2002
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/4016/1/Characterization_of_Cajanus_scarabaeoides_growing_in_Yuanjiang_county_of_Yunnan_province_in_China.pdf
Saxena, K B and Zhou, Chaohong and Zhang, Chunhua and Li, Zhenghong and Zhang, Jianyun and Liu, Xiouxian (2002) Characterization of Cajanus scarabaeoides growing in Yuanjiang county of Yunnan province in China. International Chickpea and Pigeonpea Newsletter, 9. pp. 34-37.