Feedipedia
Animal feed resources information system
Feedipedia
Feedipedia

Sponsored by

Adisseo

Automatic translation

Did you find the information you were looking for? Is it valuable to you? Feedipedia is encountering funding shortage. We need your help to keep providing reference-based feeding recommendations for your animals.
Would you consider donating? If yes, please click on the button Donate.
Any amount is the welcome. Even one cent is helpful to us!

Flemingia (Flemingia macrophylla)

IMPORTANT INFORMATION: This datasheet is pending revision and updating; its contents are currently derived from FAO's Animal Feed Resources Information System (1991-2002) and from Bo Göhl's Tropical Feeds (1976-1982).

Datasheet

Description
Click on the "Nutritional aspects" tab for recommendations for ruminants, pigs, poultry, rabbits, horses, fish and crustaceans
Common names 
Apa apa, hahapaan, pok kepokan, serengan jantan, beringan, laclay guinan, gewawini, malabalatong, thwàx h'èè h'üad, hom sam muang, thoua huat, mahae nok, khamin naang, khamin ling, top mo'láto, cây dau ma, cai duoi chon .
Species 

Flemingia macrophylla (Willd.) Merr. [Fabaceae]

Synonyms 
Crotalaria macrophylla Willd., Flemingia congesta Roxb. ex W. T. Aiton, Moghania macrophylla (Willd.) Kuntze
Feed categories 
Related feed(s) 
Nutritional aspects
Ruminants 
Considered as candidate pasture legume. Unpalatable in wet season but acceptable in dry season.
Nutritional tables
Tables of chemical composition and nutritional value 
References
References 
Asare, EO. ; Shehu, Y. ; Agishi, E. A., 1984. Preliminary studies on indigenous species for dry season grazing in the northern Guinea savanna zone of Nigeria. Trop. Grassl., 18 (3): 148-152 web icon
Cortés, J. E. ; Moreno, B. ; Pabon, M. L. ; Avila, P.; Kreuzer, M. ; Hess, H. D. ; Carulla, J. E, 2009. Effects of purified condensed tannins extracted from Calliandra, Flemingia and Leucaena on ruminal and postruminal degradation of soybean meal as estimated in vitro. Anim. Feed Sci. Technol., 151 (3-4): 194-204 web icon
Rosales, R. B., 1999. Condensed tannins in tropical forage legumes: their characterisation and study of their nutritional impact from the standpoint of structure-activity relationships. PhD Thesis, University of Reading web icon
Schultze-Kraft, R. ; Lascano, C. ; Benavides, G. ; Gomez, J. M., 1989. Relative palatability of some little known tropical forage legumes. Proceedings of the XVI International Grassland Congress, 4 11 October 1989, Nice, France. 1989, 785 786
Seng Sokerya; Rodriguez, L., 2001. Foliage from cassava, Flemingia macrophylla and bananas compared with grasses as forage sources for goats: effects on growth rate and intestinal nematodes. Livest. Res. Rural Dev., 13 (2) web icon
Tiemann, T. T.; Lascano, C. E.; Wettstein, H. R.; Mayer, A. C.; Kreuzer, M.; Hess, H. D., 2008. Effect of the tropical tannin-rich shrub legumes Calliandra calothyrsus and Flemingia macrophylla on methane emission and nitrogen and energy balance in growing lambs. Animal, 2 (5): 790-799 web icon
Tiemann, T. T.; Lascano, C. E.; Kreuzer, M.; Hess, H. D., 2008. The ruminal degradability of fibre explains part of the low nutritional value and reduced methanogenesis in highly tanniniferous tropical legumes. J. Sci. Food Agric., 88:1794–1803 web icon
7 references found
Datasheet citation 

DATASHEET UNDER CONSTRUCTION. DO NOT QUOTE. https://www.feedipedia.org/node/613 Last updated on March 16, 2010, 17:13

Image credits