| Your Home Page | Contact Us |

• Taxonomy
• Physical Description
• Distribution
• Reproduction
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Notes
• Keep Exploring

Taxonomy

Unambiguous Synonyms:

1. Brongniartia angustata Rydb.
2. Brongniartia benthamiana Hemsl.
3. Brongniartia oxyphylla (DC.)Hemsl.
4. Brongniartia thermoides Spreng.
5. Megastegia speciosa G.Don
6. Peraltea lupinoides Kunth
7. Peraltea oxyphylla DC.

Notes:

Name Status: Accepted Name. Latest taxonomic scrutiny: Zarucchi J.L., 1993

Physical 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]

Habit: Shrub • Climbing: Not Climbing

Distribution

Reproduction

Duration: Perennial

Similar Species

Members of the genus Brongniartia:

There are approximately 61 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus: B. abbottiae · B. alamosana · B. argentea · B. argyrophylla · B. caeciliae · B. canescens · B. cordata · B. coriacea · B. cuneata · B. diffusa · B. discolor (Garbancillo) · B. foliolosa · B. funiculata · B. glabrata · B. goldmanii · B. guerrerensis · B. guiengolensis · B. hirsuta · B. imitator · B. inconstans · B. intermedia · B. luisana · B. lunata · B. lupinoides (Jaboncillo) · B. magnibracteata · B. minima · B. minutifolia (Little-Leaf Brongniartia) · B. mollicala · B. mollicula · B. mollis · B. montalvoana · B. mortonii · B. norrisii · B. nudiflora (Haba De Barranca) · B. oligospemna · B. oligosperma · B. pacifica · B. paniculata · B. parvifolia · B. pauciflora · B. peninsularis · B. podalyrioides · B. pringlei · B. proteranthera · B. revoluta · B. riesebergii · B. robinioides · B. rozynskii · B. seleri · B. sericea · B. shrevei · B. sousae · B. suberea · B. tenufolia · B. tenuifolia · B. trentoninsis · B. trifoliata · B. ulbrichiana · B. vazquezii · B. vicioides · B. zirandarensis

More Info

• Search for Pictures: images.google.com
• Search for Scholarly Articles: Google Scholar
• Search using Scientific Name and Vernacular Names: All the Web | AltaVista Canada | AltaVista | Excite | Google | HotBot | Lycos
• Search using Specialized Databases: GenBank | Medline | Scirus | CISTI/CA L | Agricola Periodicals | Agricola Books
• Translate this page using Google: Arabic | Chinese | Deutsch | Español | Français | Italiano | Japanese | Korean | Português

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.) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. [http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/Taxonomicon/]. Access date: Nov 23, 2005
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 28, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 2 providers.
• ILDIS World Database of Legumes
• ILDIS World Database of LegumesNov 10, 2005.
• Zarucchi JL, 1993 (from ILDIS).

Data Sources:

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 28, 2008:

• Comisión nacional para el conocimiento y uso de la biodiversidad: Herbario del Instituto de Ecología, A.C., México (IE-BAJÃ�O)
• Comisión nacional para el conocimiento y uso de la biodiversidad: Herbario del Instituto de Ecología, A.C., México (IE-XAL)
• Missouri Botanical Garden
• The New York Botanical Garden: Vascular Plant Type Specimens

Identifiers:

• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 179264
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:37225-2
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 429357