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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
()
- 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:
Cytiseae
()
- Genus:
Argyrolobium
()
- Ecklon & Zeyher, 1836, nom. cons.
- Specific epithet:
rupestre subsp. aberdaricum
- (Harms)Polhill
- Botanical name: - Argyrolobium rupestre subsp. aberdaricum (Harms)Polhill
- Specific epithet:
rupestre subsp. aberdaricum
- (Harms)Polhill
- Genus:
Argyrolobium
(
- Tribe:
Cytiseae
(
- Subfamily:
Papilionoideae
(
- Family:
Leguminosae
(
- Order:
Fabales
(
- Superorder:
Rosanae
(
- Subclass:
Rosidae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Synonyms
Argyrolobium aberdaricum Harms
Notes
Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: Cristofolini G., Jun-2001
Similar Species
Members of the genus Argyrolobium
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Further Reading
- Oliver, D. Flora of tropical Africa /by Daniel Oliver. .. assisted by other botanists. 2 1871 London: L. Reeve and co., 1868-1999. url p. 46.
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 16, 2012.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3773993
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1947105
Footnotes
- "Argyrolobium". in Flora of Pakistan Page 35. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
