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Uraria
Uraria is a genus of plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It includes 24 species of shrubs and subshrubs native to sub-Saharan Africa, the Indian Subcontinent, Indochina, China, Malesia, Papuasia, Australia, and the South Pacific. Typical habitats are seasonally-dry tropical woodland or grassland. It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae and the tribe Desmodieae.
10 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Asian foxtail
speciesUraria crinita
pink uraria
speciesUraria lagopodioides
Prishniparni
speciesUraria picta
Uraria rufescens
speciesUraria rufescens
Uraria lagopus
speciesUraria lagopus
Uraria oblonga
speciesUraria oblonga
Uraria sinensis
speciesUraria sinensis
Uraria rotundata
speciesUraria rotundata
Uraria campanulata
speciesUraria campanulata
Uraria lacei
speciesUraria lacei
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
François Le Vaillant — Histoire naturelle des promerops et des guêpiers (1807)
François Le Vaillant · 1807 · p.169
The Book of Health: The Art of Distillation
Brunschwig, Hieronymus · 1505 · p.189
Historiae Animalium Liber III: De Avium Natura
Conrad Gesner · 1555 · p.724
Six Groups of the History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens · 1583 · p.488
Elements of Botany
Joseph Pitton de Tournefort · 1719 · p.68
François Le Vaillant — Histoire naturelle des promerops et des guêpiers (1807)
François Le Vaillant · 1807 · p.166
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Uraria in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 138465.