Vernacular Name
Flemingia

Category
Legumes

Use

Rank	Class
	Food and Beverages
	Pharmaceutical
	Cosmetics
	Health and Functional Products
2	Fodder/Animal feed
	Fibre, Fuel and Building
	Ornamental
1	Environmental
	Other

1. Very relevant
5. Not very relevant

Place of Origin
Native to the humid to subhumid tropics and subtropics of Taiwan, southern China, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Bhutan, India, Nepal, northern Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Papua New Guinea.

Actual Distribution
It is cultivated and naturalised in sub-Saharan Africa and South America.

Places and Types of Utilization
Most commonly used in contour hedgerows for erosion control, often in association with Desmodium cinereum (formerly known as D. rensonii). Prunings are used for mulch (slow breakdown of leaf due to high concentration of condensed tannins) and green manure in alley cropping systems. It is also... [Read_more]

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• http://www.tropicalforages.info/key/Forages/Media/Html/Flemingia_macrophylla.htm