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Aeschynomene indica (jointvetch; Indian jointvetch; kat sola; Kat sola, Indian jointvetch; Sensitive Vetch)

Synonyms:
Language: Hindi; Sinhala

Wikipedia Abstract

Aeschynomene indica is a species of flowering plant in the legume family. Common names include Indian jointvetch, kat sola, budda pea, curly indigo, hard sola, northern jointvetch, indische Schampflanze (German), angiquinho, maricazinho, papquinha, pinheirinho (Brazilian Portuguese), he meng (Chinese), kusanemu (Japanese), and ikin sihk (Pohnpeian).
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Attributes

Lifespan [1]  Annual/Perennial
Structure [2]  Herb

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Eastern Coastal Australia Australia Australasia Tropical and Subtropical Coastal Rivers    
Lower Niger - Benue Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Mali, Niger, Nigeria Afrotropic Tropical and Subtropical Floodplain Rivers and Wetland Complexes    
Murray - Darling Australia Australasia Temperate Floodplain River and Wetlands    
Volta Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Côte D’Ivoire, Mali, Togo Afrotropic Tropical and Subtropical Floodplain Rivers and Wetland Complexes    

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Central Gulf Coastal Plain Biosphere Reserve 40530 United States  
Kakadu National Park II 4744348 Northern Territory, Australia
Kruger National Park II 4718115 Mpumalanga, South Africa
Lacassine National Wildlife Refuge VI 28351 Louisiana, United States
Purnululu National Park II 604999 Western Australia, Australia

Predators

Eurema hecabe (Common grass yellow)[3]
Pinnaspis strachani (lesser snow scale)[4]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 3Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
♦ 4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0