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Description
Genus Argyrolobium
Herbs, rarely small shrubs
. Leaves digitately trifoliolate
; stipules free
. Flowers yellow; solitary, racemose or subumbellate, terminal
or leaf-opposed. Bracts and bracteoles often small. Calyx bilabiate, teeth 2 to the upper and three to the lower lip. Vexillum suborbicular
, wings
obovate
, keel slightly incurved
, shorter than the vexillum. Stamens monadelphous
, alternate anthers
short and versatile, alternately longer
and basifixed
. Ovary sessile, many ovuled, style glabrous
, stigma terminal, often oblique
. Fruit linear
, compressed
, silky-villous, 2-valved.
About 130 species, North, tropical
and South Africa, Madagascar, S. Europe, W. Asia and Indo-Pakistan subcontinent.[1]
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
()
- Subclass:
Rosidae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Rosanae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Order:
Fabales
()
- Bromhead, 1838
- Family:
Leguminosae
()
- A.L. de Jussieu, 1789, nom. cons.
- Subfamily:
Papilionoideae
()
- Tribe:
Cytiseae
()
- Genus:
Argyrolobium
()
- Ecklon & Zeyher, 1836, nom. cons.
- Specific epithet:
longipes
- N.E.Br.
- Botanical name: - Argyrolobium longipes N.E.Br.
- Specific epithet:
longipes
- N.E.Br.
- Genus:
Argyrolobium
(
- Tribe:
Cytiseae
(
- Subfamily:
Papilionoideae
(
- Family:
Leguminosae
(
- Order:
Fabales
(
- Superorder:
Rosanae
(
- Subclass:
Rosidae
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Last scrutiny: 1991-1993
Similar Species
Members of the genus Argyrolobium
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Further Reading
- Bulletin of miscellaneous information /Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 1907 London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1900-1941. url p. 110.
Notes
Contributors
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed April 19, 2007.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2007. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed September 17, 2007.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 16, 2012.
- Fautin, Daphne G. (from Hexacorallians of the World).
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed January 24, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 2 providers.
- Hexacorallians of the World 2001.
- ILDIS World Database of Legumes. Release date: May 1, 2007
- ILDIS World Database of Legumes, 10, Nov 2005
- ILDIS World Database of LegumesNov 10, 2005.
- Lewis GP, 1994/1995 (from ILDIS).
- Light, Kris. East Tennessee Wildflowers
- Ocean Biogeographic Information System. Accessed March 01, 2006. www.iobis.org
- Parhost World Database of FleasNov 2, 2005.
- Podlech D, 1996 (from ILDIS).
- Rhytismatales database 2006.
- Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
- The International Plant Names Index. Accessed Jan 19, 2007.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2863108
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ILD-5617
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 427790
Footnotes
- "Argyrolobium". in Flora of Pakistan Page 35. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
