Interesting Facts
Common Names
Common Names in English:
Spanish Peanut
Description
Genus Arachis
Herbs, annual
or perennial
, erect
or prostrate
. Leaves with partly adnate
stipules, paripinnately 3-4-foliolate, stipels
absent. Inflorescence solitary or 2-7-flowered spikes; bracts membranous, primary
ones biapiculate. Calyx membraneous, filiform
, 5-lobed, the 4 upper lobes
united
, the lower more or less free
. Flowers yellow, sometimes striped with red. Vexillum, rounded
, shortly narrowed at the base
, wings
free, keel beaked
, incurved
. Stamens 8-10, monadelphous
, 4-5 anthers
elongate
, alternating with 4-5 short ones. Ovary subsessile
, linear
1-7-ovuled, style very long, soon deciduous; stigma minute, terminal
. Fruit 1-6-seeded, slightly constricted
, functionally indehiscent, thick walled, developing below the soil, having been pushed beneath
by the considerable lengthening of the gynophore
. Seeds ovoid
or oblong
; cotyledons rich in oil
.
A genus with 19 S. American species, one of which is widely cultivated throughout the warmer parts.[1]
Habitat
Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 4,653 meters (0 to 15,266 feet).[2]
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- Class:
Spermatopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Subclass:
Rosidae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Rosanae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Order:
Fabales
()
- Bromhead, 1838
- Family:
Leguminosae
()
- A.L. de Jussieu, 1789, nom. cons.
- Subfamily:
Papilionoideae
()
- Tribe:
Dalbergieae
()
- Genus:
Arachis
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1753
- Peanut
- Specific epithet:
hypogaea
- Waldron
- Subspecies:
fastigiata
- Botanical name: - Arachis hypogaea fastigiata Waldron
- Subspecies:
fastigiata
- Specific epithet:
hypogaea
- Waldron
- Genus:
Arachis
(
- Tribe:
Dalbergieae
(
- Subfamily:
Papilionoideae
(
- Family:
Leguminosae
(
- Order:
Fabales
(
- Superorder:
Rosanae
(
- Subclass:
Rosidae
(
- Class:
Spermatopsida
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
Publishing author : Waldron Publication : Contr. Bot. Lab. Morris Arbor . Univ. Pennsylvania 4: 312 1919
Similar Species
Members of the genus Arachis
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 75 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
A. appressipila (Amendoim Bravo) · A. archeri (Amendoim Do Campo Limpo) · A. glabrata (Hagenbeck's Peanut) · A. glabrata var. glabrata (Mendoim Do Campo Baixo) · A. hypogaea (Arachide) · A. hypogaea fastigiata (Spanish Peanut) · A. hypogaea hypogaea (Virginian Peanut) · A. hypogaea var. fastigiata 'Argentine' (Spanish Peanut) · A. hypogaea var. fastigiata 'Comet' (Spanish Peanut) · A. hypogaea var. fastigiata 'Dixie Spanish' (Peanut) · A. hypogaea var. fastigiata 'Florispan' (Spanish Peanut) · A. hypogaea var. fastigiata 'Gfa Spanish' (Spanish Peanut) · A. hypogaea var. fastigiata 'Improved Spanish 2b' (Spanish Peanut) · A. hypogaea var. fastigiata 'Natal Common' (Spanish Peanut) · A. hypogaea var. fastigiata 'Shaffers Spanish' (Spanish Peanut) · A. hypogaea var. fastigiata 'Spancross' (Spanish Peanut) · A. hypogaea var. fastigiata 'Spanette' (Spanish Peanut) · A. hypogaea var. fastigiata 'Spanhoma' (Spanish Peanut) · A. hypogaea var. fastigiata 'Spantex' (Spanish Peanut) · A. hypogaea var. fastigiata 'Starr' (Spanish Peanut) · A. hypogaea var. fastigiata 'Wilco I' (Spanish Peanut) · A. hypogaea 'Agratech 1-1' (Peanut) · A. hypogaea 'Agratech 108' (Peanut) · A. hypogaea 'Agratech 120' (Peanut) · A. hypogaea 'Andru 93' (Peanut) · A. hypogaea 'Andru Ii' (Peanut) · A. hypogaea 'Ap-3' (Peanut) · A. hypogaea 'Bradford Runner' (Peanut) · A. hypogaea 'C-99r' (Peanut) · A. hypogaea 'Carolina Black' (Peanut) · A. hypogaea 'Carver' (Peanut) · A. hypogaea 'Carwile's Virginia' (Peanut) · A. hypogaea 'Deakin' (Peanut) · A. hypogaea 'Dixie Runner' (Peanut) · A. hypogaea 'Early Runner' (Peanut) · A. hypogaea 'Flavor Runner 458' (Peanut) · A. hypogaea 'Florida Mdr 98' (Peanut) · A. hypogaea 'Florunner' (Peanut) · A. hypogaea 'Forde' (Peanut) · A. hypogaea 'Georgia Bold' (Peanut) · A. hypogaea 'Georgia Green' (Peanut) · A. hypogaea 'Georgia Runner' (Peanut) · A. hypogaea 'Gk-7' (Peanut) · A. hypogaea 'Gregory' (Peanut) · A. hypogaea 'Holt' (Peanut) · A. hypogaea 'Marc I' (Peanut) · A. hypogaea 'Menzies' (Peanut) · A. hypogaea 'Middleton' (Peanut) · A. hypogaea 'Nc V11' (Peanut) · A. hypogaea 'Norden' (Peanut) · A. hypogaea 'Perry' (Peanut) · A. hypogaea 'Shulamit' (Peanut) · A. hypogaea 'So95r' (Peanut) · A. hypogaea 'Southern Runner' (Peanut) · A. hypogaea 'Sunoleic 97r' (Peanut) · A. hypogaea 'Tennessee Red' (Peanut) · A. hypogaea 'Va 92r' (Peanut) · A. hypogaea 'Vc2' (Peanut) · A. hypogaea 'Virginia Jumbo' (Peanut) · A. hypogaea 'Virugard' (Peanut) · A. hypogaea 'Wheeler' (Peanut) · A. hypogaea ''southeastern Runner 56-15'' (Peanut) · A. kuhlmannii (Amendoim Bravo) · A. macedoi (Amendoim Do Resfriado) · A. major (Amendoim De Aquidauana) · A. monticola (Peanut) · A. pintoi (Forage Peanut) · A. prostrata (Grassnut) · A. pusilla (Amendoim De Caracar) · A. repens (Amendoim Rasteiro) · A. sylvestris (Amendoim Do Porco) · A. triseminata (Mundubí) · A. tuberosa (Amendoim De T) · A. villosulicarpa (Amendoim Bravo) · A. williamsii (Manicillo)
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Further Reading
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 9113068
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:17296-2
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1071928
Footnotes
- "Arachis". in Flora of Pakistan Page 356.. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
- Mean = 545.840 meters (1,790.814 feet), Standard Deviation = 576.980 based on 828 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
