Common Names
Common Names in English:
Alcornoque, Mir¡m, Sapupira, Sebipira Guaz£, Sepibira, Sucupira, Sucupirucu-Parda
Description
Family Fabaceae
The Fabaceae are herbs, vines , shrubs , trees , and lianas found in both temperate and tropical areas. They comprise one of the largest families of flowering plants , numbering 630 genera and 18,000 species. The leaves are stipulate , nearly always alternate, and range from bipinnately or palmately compound to simple . The petiole base is commonly enlarged into a pulvinus that commonly functions in orientation of the leaves (sometimes very responsively, as in the sensitive plant, Mimosa pudica). The flowers are usually bisexual , actinomorphic to zygomorphic, slightly to strongly perigynous, and commonly in racemes , spikes, or heads . The perianth commonly consists of a calyx and corolla of 5 segments each. The androecium consists of commonly 1- many stamens (most commonly 10), distinct or variously united , sometimes some of them reduced to staminodes. The pistil is simple, often stipitate , comprising a single style and stigma, and a superior ovary with one locule containing 2-many marginal ovules. The fruit is usually a legume, sometimes a samara, loment, follicle, indehiscent pod, achene, drupe, or berry. The seeds often have a hard coat with hourglass-shaped cells , and sometimes bear a u-shaped line called a pleurogram. [Carr]
Physical Description
Habit: Shrub , Tree • Climbing: Not Climbing
Habitat
Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 4,936 meters (0 to 16,194 feet).[1]
Biology
Reproduction
Duration: Perennial
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Magnoliophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 Ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Flowering Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
()
- Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Dicotyledons
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Magnoliophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Unambiguous Synonyms
- Bowdichia virgiloides Kunth
- Cebipira Virgiliodes
Notes
Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: –
Similar Species
Members of the genus Bowdichia
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 12 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
B. densiflora · B. guyanensis · B. major · B. martiusii (Chontaquiro) · B. nitida (Sapupira) · B. parvifolia · B. pubescens · B. racemosa · B. sebipira · B. virgilioides (Sucupirucu-Parda) · B. virgilioides var. tomentosa · B. virgiloides
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Further Reading
- Annales du Muse colonial de Marseille. Marseille: Muse colonial, 1907-1954. FRE url p. 71, p. 74.
- Biochemie der Pflanzen / von Friedrich Czapek. Jena: G. Fischer, 1922-25. GER url p. 800.
- Botanica. Relatorio apresentado ao Snr. coronel de engenharia Candido Marianno da Silva Rondon, chefe da Commissô Brasileira, por F. C. Hoehne, botanico da Expedio. Rio de Janeiro, 1914. POR url p. 18.
- Botanisches Zentralblatt; referierendes Organ für das Gesamtgebiet der Botanik. Jena [etc.]G. Fischer [etc.] GER url p. 160, p. 217.
- Conspectus regni vegetabilis: secundum characteres morphologicos praesertim carpicos in classes ordines et familias digesti, adjectis exemplis nominibusque plantarum usui medico technico et oeconomico inservientium = Uebersicht de zunächst als Leitfaden Nürnberg: Joh. Leonhard Schrag, 1835. LAT url p. 35.
- Hardwood record. Chicago: Hardwood Co., 1902-1939. ENG url p. 31, p. 500.
- Indicador de madeiras e plantas uteis do Brasil, por Eurico Teixeira da Fonseca. Rio de Janeiro, Officinas graphicas Villas-Boas & co., 1922. POR url p. 316.
- Jahresbericht der Königl. Schwedischen Akademie der Wissenschaften über die Fortschritte der Botanik Breslau:Konigl. Schwedischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1838-1847. GER url p. 7.
- Just's botanischer jahresbericht. Systematisch geordnetes repertorium der botanischen literatur aller länder. Berlin, Gebr. Borntraeger, 1874-98; GER url p. 1091, p. 1237, p. 1603, p. 560.
- Me?moires /Socie?te? botanique de France. 1 1905 [Paris: La Socie?te?, 1905-1921. FRE url p. 153.
- Notas a Luccok sobre a flora e fauna do Brazil. Rio de Janeiro, Laemmert, 1882. POR url p. 149.
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.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed November 17, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 3 providers.
- ILDIS World Database of LegumesNov 10, 2005.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 17, 2007:
- Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
- SysTax, Herbarium Universitat Ulm
- SysTax, Nationaal Herbarium Nederland, Utrecht University branch
- SysTax, Naturhistorisches Museum Wien
- SysTax, New York Botanical Garden
- SysTax, SysTax
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2864485
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ILD-7393
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13640794
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:35732-2
- MoBot NameID: 13002985
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 429340
Footnotes
- Mean = 337.560 meters (1,107.480 feet), Standard Deviation = 616.330 based on 71 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
