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Taxonomy

Unambiguous Synonyms:

1. Dalbergia tomentosa Vogel
2. Triptolemea pubescens Benth.

Notes:

Name Status: Accepted Name. Latest taxonomic scrutiny: –

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]

Subfamily Faboideae:

Mostly herbs, shrubs, or trees. Leaves pinnate or palmate to trifoliolate or apparently simple. Corolla usually, showy, zygomorphic, the petals imbricate, posterior (upper or banner) petal outermost in bud. Stamens 10 or 9 + 1 (diadelphous), not showy. Pollen released in monads. Seeds with u-shaped line (pleurogram) lacking. [Carr]

Genus Dalbergia:

Trees and shrubs. Leaves imparipinnate rarely unifoliolate, lateral leaflets alternate, exstipellate. Inflorescence a terminal or axillary cyme or panicle. Bract and bracteoles small. Calyx campanulate, teeth unequal. Vexillum ovate or orbicular. Keel petals united at the tip. Stamens 9 or 10, monadelphous or diadelphous. Ovary stipitate, ovules 1 to few, style incurved, glabrous, stigma capitate. Fruit samaroid, indehiscent, not winged, 1-4-seeded. Seed reniform, compressed.

A genus with about 300 species, mainly distributed in tropics and subtropics.^[1]

Similar Species

Members of the genus Dalbergia:

There are approximately 523 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them: D. abbreviata · D. abrahamii (Rosewood) · D. acaciaefolia · D. acariacantha · D. acariaeantha · D. acariiantha · D. acuminata · D. acuta · D. acutifoliolata · D. adami · D. adamii · D. aestivalis · D. afzeliana · D. afzelii · D. ajudana · D. alata · D. albertisii · D. albertsii · D. albiflora · D. albiflora albiflora · D. albiflora echinocarpa · D. altissima · D. amazonica · D. amerimmon · D. amorphoides · D. andapensis · D. annamensis · D. anomala · D. apiculata · D. apini · D. arbetisii · D. arbutifolia · D. arbutifolia aberrans · D. arbutifolia arbutifolia · D. argentea · D. armata · D. assamica · D. assamica var. laccifera · D. aurea · D. bakeri · D. balansae · D. bariensis (Burmese Rosewood) · D. baroni · D. baronii (Palisander) · D. bathiei · D. beccarii · D. beddomei · D. benthamii · D. bequaertii · D. berteroi · D. bignonae · D. bignoniae · D. bintuluensis · D. boehmii · D. boehmii boehmii · D. boehmii stuhlmannii · D. bojeri · D. boniana · D. borneensis · D. brachystachya · D. bracteata · D. bracteolata · D. brasiliensis (Caroba-Brava) · D. brevicaudata · D. brownei (Brown's Indian Rosewood) · D. brownii · D. burmanica · D. calderonii · D. calderonii var. calderonii · D. calderonii var. molinae · D. calycina · D. cambodiana · D. campenoni · D. campenonii · D. cana · D. cana var. kurzii · D. candenatensis (Dalbergia) · D. canescens · D. capuronii · D. carringtoniana · D. catingicola · D. catipenonii · D. caudata · D. cearensis (Brazilian Kingwood) · D. chapelieri · D. chermezoni · D. chlorocarpa · D. chontalensis · D. clarkei · D. cochinchinenis · D. cochinchinensis (Thailand Rosewood) · D. commiphoroides · D. comorensis · D. confertiflora · D. confertiflora var. confertiflora · D. confertiflora var. listeri · D. congensis · D. congesta · D. congestiflora · D. coromandeliana

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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 5, 2007.
• ILDIS World Database of LegumesNov 10, 2005.

Identifiers:

• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13669019
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1478588

Footnotes:

1. "Dalbergia". in Flora of Pakistan Page 56.. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.