Cajanus Adans.

First published in Fam. Pl. 2: 326, 529 (1763), nom. cons.
This genus is accepted
The native range of this genus is Tropical & Subtropical Old World to N. Australia.

Distribution

Native to:

Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Benin, Burkina, Cambodia, China South-Central, China Southeast, Comoros, East Himalaya, Ghana, Guinea, Hainan, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Madagascar, Malaya, Mali, Marianas, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Nigeria, Northern Territory, Pakistan, Philippines, Queensland, Senegal, South China Sea, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Thailand, Togo, Vietnam, West Himalaya, Western Australia

Introduced into:

Afghanistan, Angola, Bahamas, Bermuda, Bismarck Archipelago, Bolivia, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Caroline Is., Cayman Is., Central African Repu, Chad, Colombia, Congo, Cook Is., Cuba, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Florida, French Guiana, Gabon, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Guyana, Haiti, Hawaii, Honduras, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Laccadive Is., Leeward Is., Liberia, Malawi, Marquesas, Mauritius, Mexico Southwest, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, New Caledonia, New South Wales, Niger, Northern Provinces, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Rwanda, Réunion, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Society Is., Somalia, Southwest Caribbean, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Tadzhikistan, Tanzania, Transcaucasus, Trinidad-Tobago, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Windward Is., Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe

Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. MIM, Deurne.

Flora of West Tropical Africa

  • —F.T.A. 2: 215.

Flora Zambesiaca

  • Cat. Hort. Monsp.: 85 (1813) nom. conserv.*
  • van der Maesen in Agric. Univ. Wageningen Pap. 85–4: 1–225 (1986).

Flora of Somalia

  • Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
  • Van der Maesen in Agric. Univ. Wageningen Papers 85-4 (1986).

Flora of Tropical East Africa

  • Cat. Hort. Monsp.: 85 (1813), nom. conserv .

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Sources

  • Flora Zambesiaca

    • Flora Zambesiaca
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  • Flora of Somalia

    • Flora of Somalia
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  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
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  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
  • Legumes of the World Online

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