Interesting Facts
Common Names
Common Names in English:
St Thomas-Bean, St. Thomas Bean, Wa Lai, Wataqiri
Description
Subfamily Mimosoideae
Mostly trees or shrubs . Leaves mostly bipinnate. Corolla usually not showy, actinomorphic , sympetalous , the lobes valvate . Stamens 10-numerous, often monadelphous , showy. Pollen released in monads , tetrads , or polyads . Seeds with u-shaped line (pleurogram) present. [Carr]
Physical Description
Habit: Tree , Shrub • Climbing: Climbing
Habitat
Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 3,687 meters (0 to 12,096 feet).[1]
Biology
Reproduction
Duration: Perennial
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:
Spermatopsida
(
)
- Brongniart, 1843
- Subclass:
Rosidae
(
)
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Rosanae
(
)
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Order:
Fabales
(
)
- Bromhead, 1838
- Family:
Leguminosae
(
)
- A.L. de Jussieu, 1789, nom. cons.
- Subfamily:
Mimosoideae
(
)
- Subfamily:
Mimosoideae
(
- Family:
Leguminosae
(
- Order:
Fabales
(
- Superorder:
Rosanae
(
- Subclass:
Rosidae
(
- Class:
Spermatopsida
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Synonyms
Entada formosana Kaneh. • Entada koshunensis Hayata & Kaneh. • Entada rumphii Scheff. • Entada scandens (L.)benth. • Entada tonkinensis Gagnep. • Faba marina-major Rumph. • Lens phaseoloides L. • Mimosa blancoana Litv.
Notes
Publishing author
: Merr. Publication
: Philippine Journal of Science
C.
Botany
9 1914 (Jun. 1914)
Basionym
author: (L.)
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Comment: Climbing
: Climbing, Habit: Shrub
, Habit: Tree
, Lifespan:
Perennial
Similar Species
Members of the genus Entada
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 7 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
E. abyssinica (Abyssinia Entada) · E. gigas (Monkey Ladder Vine) · E. phaseoloides (St. Thomas Bean) · E. polystachya (Callingcard Vine) · E. polystachya var. polyphylla (Callingcard Vine) · E. rheedii (Liane Sabre) · E. rheedii rheedii (Liane Sabre)
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Further Reading
- A bibliographic enumeration of Bornean plants, by E. D. Merrill. Singapore, Printed by Fraser & Neave, ltd., 1921 url p. 295, p. 295.
- A hand-book to the flora of Ceylon: containing descriptions of all the species of flowering plants indigenous to the island, and notes on their history, distribution, and uses: with an atlas of plates illustrating some of the more inte by Henry Trimen. London: Dulau, 1893-1931. url p. 95.
- An annotated catalogue of types of the University of Illinois mycological collections (ILL) / Urbana: University of Illinois Press, c1997. url p. 223.
- An enumeration of Philippine flowering plants, Manila, Bureau of Printing, 1922-26. url p. 251, p. 252.
- Annales du Jardin botanique de Buitenzorg. 31 1921 Leiden [etc.]: E. J. Brill [etc.] url p. 128, p. 161, p. 186.
- Annual report of the Director of Forestry. Manila [etc.] url p. 39.
- Botanical Museum leaflets, Harvard University. 10 1942 Cambridge, Mass.: Botanical Museum, Harvard University, 1932- url p. 154, p. 155.
- Botanical publications of E.D. Merrill. [New York, etc., 1899- url p. 251, p. 252, p. 295.
- Check-list of the species of fishes known from the Philippine Archipelago, Manila, Bureau of printing, 1910. url p. 168, p. 194, p. 253, p. 527, p. 568.
- Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 45 2003 Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1890- url p. 301, p. 525.
- Flora Malesiana. general editor, C.G.G.J. van Steenis. Djakarta: Noordhoff-Kolff, 1950- url p. 10, p. 177, p. 178, p. 179, p. 180, p. 23, p. 24, p. 5.
- Flora Vitiensis nova: a new Flora of Fiji (spermatophytes only) / Albert C. Smith. Lawaii, Hawaii: Pacific Tropical Botanical Garden, 1979- url p. 57, p. 59.
- Flora of Guatemala: families Leguminosae, Geraniaceae, Oxalidaceae, Tropaeolaceae, Linaceae, Erythroxylaceae, Zygophyllaceae, Rutaceae, Simaroubaceae, Burseraceae, Meliaceae, and Malpighiaceae / by Paul C. Standley and Julian A. Steyermark. 24 1946 Chicago, Ill.: Chicago Natural History Museum, 1946. url p. 30.
- Flora of Japan: in English: combined, much revised and extended translation / by the author of his Flora of Japan (1953) and Flora of Japan, Pteridophyta (1957); edited by Frederick G. Meyer and Egbert H. Walker. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1965. url p. 2, p. 553.
- Icones plantarum formosanarum nec non et contributiones ad floram formosanam: or, Icones of the plants of Formosa, and materials for a flora of the island, based on a study of the collections of the Botanical survey of the Government of Formosa / By B. Hayata. .. Taihoku: Bureau of Productive Industry, Government of Formosa, 1911-1921. url p. 3, p. 33.
- Journal of ethnobiology. 8-9 1988-1989 Flagstaff, Ariz.: Center for Western Studies, 1981- url p. 126.
- Journal of the New York Botanical Garden. 44 1943 Lancaster, Pa.: Published for the Garden by the New Era Printing Co., 1900- url p. 207, p. 269, p. 294.
- Leaflets of Philippine botany. 10 1938-1939 Manila: Oriental Printing Co., 1906-1939. url p. 3808, p. 3824, p. 3876.
- List of intercepted plant pests / United States Department of Agriculture, Plant Quarantine and Control Administration. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. G.P.O.], 1932- url p. 17.
- Minor products of Philippine forests, Manila, Bureau of Printing, 1920-1921. url , , , , , , , , , .
- Philippine resins, gums, seed oils, and essential oils. By Augustus P. West. .. and William H. Brown. .. Manila, Bureau of printing, 1920. url p. 208, p. 210, p. 225.
- Phytologia memoirs. Plainfield, N.J.: H.N. Moldenke and A.L. Moldenke, 1980- url p. 156.
- Species Blancoanae: a critical revision of the Philippine species of plants described by Blanco and by Llanos /by E.D. Merrill. 1918 Manila: Bureau of Printing, 1918. url p. 168, p. 194.
- The Philippine journal of science. 21 1922 Manila. url p. 135, p. 26, p. 551, p. 603, p. 86.
- The World List of Threatened Trees WCMC, IUCN url p. 619.
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 11, 2012.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed January 27, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
- ILDIS World Database of Legumes. Release date: May 1, 2007
- Nghia, N.H. 1998. Dalbergia entadoides. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 20 October 2006.
- Nielsen IC & Rico ML, 1994 (from ILDIS).
- Pippen, Jeffrey S. Jeff's Nature Page. Accessed December 8, 2007.
- Podlech D, 1996 (from ILDIS).
- Polhill RM, 1993 (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.
- Schrire BD, 1994-10 (from ILDIS).
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- Stirton CH, 2001-06 (from ILDIS).
- The Global Lepidoptera Names Index2, 12.2, 2005.
- The International Plant Names Index. Accessed Dec 27, 2011.
- The Virtual Field Herbarium.
- Thomson, Christian (from Diptera).
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- World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. Adenanthera intermedia. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 20 October 2006.
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Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal January 27, 2008:
- Australian National Herbarium
- , Australian National Herbarium
- Comisión nacional para el conocimiento y uso de la biodiversidad, Herbario del Instituto de Ecología, A.C., México
- National Herbarium of New South Wales, Plants of Papua New Guinea
- USDA PLANTS, USDA PLANTS Database
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3876485
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ILD-19824
- GRIN Nomen Number: 411955
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 162768-3
- Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: PDFAB1J030
- U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: ENPH
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 37254
Footnotes
- Mean = 230.810 meters (757.251 feet), Standard Deviation = 1,391.040 based on 58 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
