Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Fabales > Fabaceae > Crotalaria > Crotalaria juncea

Crotalaria juncea (sunn hemp; Tcha-tcha; Sonnette; Cascavelle; Sunnhemp; Sunn Crotalaria; Hana; Grand Tcha-tcha; Grand Sonnette)

Synonyms:
Language: Hindi; Russian

Wikipedia Abstract

Crotalaria juncea, known as brown hemp, Indian hemp, Madras hemp, or sunn hemp, is a tropical Asian plant of the legume family (Fabaceae). It is generally considered to have originated in India. It is now widely grown throughout the tropics and subtropics as a source of green manure, fodder and lignified fiber obtained from its stem. Sunn hemp is also being looked at as a possible bio-fuel. It can be an invasive weed and has been listed as a noxious weed in some jurisdictions. It bears yellow flowers and elongate, alternate leaves.
View Wikipedia Record: Crotalaria juncea

Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Medium-Low
Lifespan [2]  Annual
Structure [3]  Herb

Predators

Lampides boeticus (bean butterfly)[4]
Pelopidas mathias (Dark Small-branded Swift)[4]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
2USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
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.
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