Hedysareae (Tribe)

Overview

Hedysareae is a tribe in the sub-family Faboideae. Hedysareae species have loments, a type of modified legume that breaks apart at constrictions occurring between the segments of the seeds.

The following genera are recognized by the USDA:^1]

Alhagi Gagnebin
Calophaca Fisch. ex DC.
Caragana Fabr.
Ebenus L.
Eversmannia Bunge
Halimodendron Fisch. ex DC.
Hedysarum L.
Onobrychis Mill.
Sartoria Boiss. & Heldr.
Taverniera DC.^[2]

mall>Fabr.

Ebenus L.

Eversmannia Bunge

Halimodendron Fisch. ex DC.

Hedysarum L.

Onobrychis Mill.

Sartoria Boiss. & Heldr.

Taverniera DC.^[2]

References

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^ United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) (2003): Germplasm Resources Information Network ? Hedysareae. Version of 2003-JAN-17. Retrieved 2010-AUG-05.
^ NOTE: Possibly synonymous with Hedysarum.

Taxonomy

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The Tribe Hedysareae is a member of the Subfamily Papilionoideae. Here is the complete "parentage" of Hedysareae:

Domain: Eukaryota Whittaker & Margulis,1978 - eukaryotes
- Kingdom: Plantae Haeckel, 1866 - Plants
  - Subkingdom: Viridaeplantae Cavalier-Smith, 1981 - Green Plants
    - Phylum: Tracheophyta Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - Vascular Plants
      - Subphylum: Euphyllophytina
        Class: Magnoliopsida Brongniart, 1843 - Dicotyledons
        Subclass: Rosidae Takhtajan, 1967
        Superorder: Rosanae Takhtajan, 1967
        Order: Fabales Bromhead, 1838
        Family: Leguminosae A.L. de Jussieu, 1789, nom. cons.
        Subfamily: Papilionoideae
        Tribe: Hedysareae

The Tribe Hedysareae is further organized into finer groupings including:

Genus (9): Caragana · Ebenus · Eversmannia · Hedysarum · Hedyscepe · Hegemone · Heimerliodendron · Onobrychis · Stracheya
Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 1,054 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in the Tribe Hedysareae.

Genera

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Caragana

Caragana is a genus of about 80 species of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae, native to Asia and eastern Europe. [more]

Ebenus

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Eversmannia

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Hedysarum

Hedysarum (Sweetvetch) is a genus of the botanical family Fabaceae, consisting of about 309 species of annual or perennial herbs in Asia, Europe, North Africa, and North America. [more]

Hedyscepe

Hedyscepe canterburyana, the Big Mountain Palm or Umbrella Palm, is the sole species in the genus Hedescepe of the family. It is endemic to Lord Howe Island, Australia and is threatened by habitat loss. It is a solitary palm with a distinct crownshaft, and bears unisexual flowers of both sexes. With the Rhopalostylis palms of Norfolk Island and New Zealand it forms the botanic subtribe Rhopalostylidinae. If differs from Rhopalostylis in minor floral details including having more than six stamens, and in being protandrous rather than protogynous. The two genera were formerly included in Archontophoenicinae until a revision in (Dransfield, Uhl et al., 2005). [more]

Hegemone

A Genus in the Kingdom Plantae. [more]

Heimerliodendron

[more]

Onobrychis

Sainfoins (Onobrychis) are Eurasian perennial herbs that have pale pink flowers and curved pods. O. viciifolia is naturalized in the British Isles and North America grasslands on calcareous soils. The Flora Europaea lists 23 species of Onobrychis. [more]

Stracheya

[more]

More info about the Genus Stracheya may be found here.

References

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^ United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) (2003): Germplasm Resources Information Network ? Hedysareae. Version of 2003-JAN-17. Retrieved 2010-AUG-05.
^ NOTE: Possibly synonymous with Hedysarum.

Sources

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