Identidad taxonómica

Scientific name
Crotalaria juncea L.
Canonical name: The scientific name without its authorship or date, for example Zea mays instead of Zea mays L.
Crotalaria juncea
Authorship: The author or authors credited with publishing the scientific name. It is written after the name, sometimes with the year, for example L. (Linnaeus) in Zea mays L. An author in parentheses first published the name in another genus or rank.
L.
Common names
Benares hemp, Deccan Hemp, Indian hemp, Indian-hemp, Madras hemp, Madras-hemp, Sun hemp, Sunn Hemp, brown hemp, sann-hemp, sunn crotalaria, sunn-hemp
Names in other languages (37)Bengalsk hamp, Canapa indiana, Chanvre de Malabar, Crotalaire jonc, Janumu, Sanhanf, Zesabiins, cascaveleira, chanvre du Bengale, crotalária, crotolaire jonciforme, cáñamo san, cânhamo-da-Índia, krotalária textilná, kuituherne, lục lạc sợi, manduvira, san, shu ma, suikerkeur, sunn, sunnhampa, sunnhennep, Кроталярия ситниковая, قنب بني, धाकटी घागरी, শনপাট, ปอเทือง, កក់ទុង, クロタラリア, サンヘンプ, 印度麻, 响铃草, 太阳麻根, 太陽麻, 菽麻, 蘭鈴豆
Kingdom: One of the broadest ranks of biological classification. It groups organisms that share very basic features, for example plants (Plantae), animals (Animalia) or fungi (Fungi).
Plantae
Phylum: Rank below kingdom that groups organisms with a shared general body plan, for example chordates (Chordata), arthropods (Arthropoda) or vascular plants (Tracheophyta). In botany the same rank is also called division.
Tracheophyta
Class: Rank below phylum, for example mammals (Mammalia), birds (Aves), insects (Insecta) or monocot plants such as grasses and orchids (Liliopsida).
Magnoliopsida
Order: Rank below class that groups related families, for example grasses and their relatives (Poales) or bats (Chiroptera).
Fabales
Family: Rank below order that groups related genera. Family names usually end in -aceae in botany (for example Poaceae, the grass family) and in -idae in zoology (for example Felidae, the cat family).
Fabaceae
Genus: Rank that groups closely related species. Its name is the first word of a species' scientific name and starts with a capital letter, for example Zea in Zea mays.
Crotalaria
Specific epithet: The second word of a species' scientific name. On its own it does not name the species: it always goes with the genus, for example mays in Zea mays.
juncea
Taxonomic rank: The level a name occupies in the hierarchy of biological classification, such as kingdom, family, genus, species or subspecies.
species
Reference species
Crotalaria juncea
Taxonomic status: Whether the taxonomic catalogue the record comes from currently accepts this name for the organism, or treats it as a synonym of another accepted name or as doubtful.
accepted name

Photos and conservation status

IUCN Red List category: The extinction-risk category that the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) assigns to a species on its Red List. EX Extinct: there is no reasonable doubt that the last individual has died. EW Extinct in the wild: it survives only in cultivation, in captivity or as a population far outside its past range. CR Critically endangered, EN Endangered and VU Vulnerable: the three threatened categories, from an extremely high to a high risk of extinction in the wild. NT Near threatened: close to qualifying as threatened. LC Least concern: evaluated and not threatened. DD Data deficient: there is not enough information to assess its risk. NE Not evaluated: not yet assessed against the criteria. It describes the risk of the species worldwide, not its situation in a project's area.
Not evaluated (NE)
Source: IUCN Red List via GBIF, queried on 2026-10-13 10:58.
Photo of Crotalaria juncea L.
Photo: Paulmathi Vinod · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Crotalaria juncea L.
Photo: Aurelijus Narbutas · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Crotalaria juncea L.
Photo: 葉子 · CC0 1.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Crotalaria juncea L.
Photo: Artem Abdukakharov · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Crotalaria juncea L.
Photo: Robert H. Wardell · CC0 1.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Crotalaria juncea L.
Photo: Daniel Atha · CC0 1.0 · View original image · Original observation

Research-grade iNaturalist observations via GBIF, CC0 or CC BY licences only, queried on 2026-10-13 10:58.

Interacciones documentadas

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Types shown: 7 of 7 is a host of × is eaten by × is an arbuscular mycorrhizal host of × interacts with × has as a parasite × is adjacent to × is visited by ×

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is a host of 138 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it. In the source ontology symbiosis covers mutualism, commensalism and parasitism alike, so this block holds attackers and allies side by side.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Uromyces decoratus Pucciniaceae is a host of 35 not compared
Cercospora canescens Mycosphaerellaceae is a host of 12 no location
Cercospora demetrioniana is a host of 9 no location
Oidium sp. pm-103 Erysiphaceae is a host of 9 no location Not a modelling unit: the source did not resolve a species — the name carries an open-nomenclature qualifier.
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is eaten by 22 organisms

This term does declare that the organism harms this species.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Wooly Wall Bee Megachile lanata Megachilidae is eaten by 8 not compared
Aloa moorei Erebidae is eaten by 2 no location
Long-tailed Blue Lampides boeticus Lycaenidae is eaten by 2 not compared
Somena scintillans Erebidae is eaten by 2 no location
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is an arbuscular mycorrhizal host of 20 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Funneliformis geosporus Glomeraceae is an arbuscular mycorrhizal host of 1 not compared
Acaulospora morrowiae Acaulosporaceae is an arbuscular mycorrhizal host of 1 not compared
Racocetra gregaria is an arbuscular mycorrhizal host of 1 not compared
Acaulospora foveata Acaulosporaceae is an arbuscular mycorrhizal host of 1 not compared
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interacts with 11 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Wooly Wall Bee Megachile lanata Megachilidae interacts with 12 not compared
Megachile bicolor bicolor Megachilidae interacts with 11 not compared
Megachile velutina Megachilidae interacts with 2 not compared
Elasmus Eulophidae interacts with 2 no location Not a modelling unit: the source publishes it at genus level.
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has as a parasite 3 organisms

This term does declare that the organism harms this species.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Metaphycus fuscidorsum Encyrtidae has as a parasite 2 no location
Elasmus Eulophidae has as a parasite 1 no location Not a modelling unit: the source publishes it at genus level.
Eurytoma has as a parasite 1 no location Not a modelling unit: the source publishes it at genus level.
Showing 3 of 3, by number of studies

is adjacent to 2 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Click Beetles Elateridae Elateridae is adjacent to 2 not compared Not a modelling unit: the source publishes it at family level.
Broad-headed Bugs Alydidae Alydidae is adjacent to 2 not compared Not a modelling unit: the source publishes it at family level.
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is visited by 1 organism

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Wooly Wall Bee Megachile lanata Megachilidae is visited by 1 not compared
Showing 1 of 1, by number of studies

Acompañantes documentados

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Documented uses and recommendations

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Among the sources you can read, none documents a use or recommendation of this species beside a crop.