Overview
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Interesting Facts
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Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Callingcard Vine
Description
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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
Species Entada polystachya
Liane especially common by the sea or along lowland rivers . 2-6 pairs pinnae, but the end pair often transformed into tendrils , then without leaflets ; otherwise 6-8 pairs leaflets, hairless or with a few on the midrib below. Flowers white, in spikes but many of these aggregated into a massibve panicle 30-60cm long. Pod 20-40 x 5-8cm, ripening to papery , splitting between the seeds.
Habit: Shrub , Vine , Tree
Habitat
Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 2,267 meters (0 to 7,438 feet).[1]
Biology
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Reproduction
Duration: Perennial
Taxonomy
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- 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
Acacia caudata Dc. • Adenanthera bonplandiana Kunth • Adenopodia polystachya (L.) J. R. Dixon Ex Croat • Adenopodia polystachya (L.)croat • Entada plumieri Spreng. • Entada polystachya< /i> (L.) Dc. • Entadopsis polystachya (L.) Britton • Entadopsis polystachya (L.)britton & Rose • Inga polystachya (L.) Scop. • Mimosa bipinnata Aubl. • Mimosa caudata Vahl • Mimosa chiliantha G. Mey. • Mimosa polystachya L.
Notes
Publishing author
: DC. Publication
: M?m. L?gum. 434, t. 61 1825
Basionym
author: (L.)
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Comment: Climbing
: Climbing, Habit: Shrub
, Lifespan: Perennial
Last scrutiny: 1994-1995
Similar Species
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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
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- A manual of poisonous plants, chiefly of eastern North America, with brief notes on economic and medicinal plants, and numerous illustrations, Cedar Rapids, Ia., The Torch Press, 1911. url .
- A manual of poisonous plants: chiefly of eastern North America, with brief notes on economic and medicinal plants, and numerous illustrations / by L. H. Pammel. 1911 Cedar Rapids, Ia.: The Torch Press, 1910-11. url p. 830.
- An enumeration of the vascular plants known from Surinam: together with their distribution and synonymy / by A. Pulle. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1906. url p. 207, p. 523.
- Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. Washington: U. S. Govt. Print. Off., 1897- url p. 729.
- Biologia centrali-americana; or, Contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and Central America. London, Pub. for the editors by R. H. Porter and Dulau & co., 1879-88. url , .
- Botanical abstracts. Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins Co. url p. 307.
- Botanical publications of E.D. Merrill. [New York, etc., 1899- url .
- Britton, N. L. (ed.). North American flora. 7 1907 [New York]New York Botanical Garden. url p. 133.
- Bulletin / Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington: G.P.O., 1901-1971. url p. 482.
- Bulletin of miscellaneous information /Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 1923 London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1900-1941. url p. 392.
- Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 5 1897-1901 Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1890- url p. 235, p. 236, p. 294, p. 325, p. 406, p. 562, p. 67, p. 69, p. 88.
- Flora of Peru / by J. Francis Macbride. 13 1943 Chicago, [Ill.]: Field Museum of Natural History, [1943] url p. 107.
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- Index of plants. 1912. Singapore, Printed at the Methodist Publishing House, 1912. url .
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- Journal of agricultural research. Washington, U.S. Govt. Printing Office, 1913-1949.. url p. 761.
- Journal of botany: being a second series of the Botanical miscellany. 4 1842 London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman; Edinburgh: A. & C. Black, 1834-1842. url p. 332.
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- Official guide to the Botanic Gardens, Dominica: illustrated: with an index of the principal plants. Dominica: The Garden, 1922? url p. 15.
- Phytologia memoirs. Plainfield, N.J.: H.N. Moldenke and A.L. Moldenke, 1980- url p. 156.
- Phytologia. Bronx Park, New York, H.A. Gleason and H.N. Moldenke, url p. 4, p. 69.
- Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th series. San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences. url p. 451.
- Studies in seeds and fruits, an investigation with the balance, London, Williams and Norgate, 1912. url , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , .
- The Bradley bibliography; a guide to the literature of the woody plants of the world published before the beginning of the twentieth century; Cambridge, Riverside Press, 1911-18. url p. 356.
- The Philippine journal of science. 5 1910 Manila. url p. 33.
- The natural history of plants. Translated by Marcus M. Hartog. LondonL. Reeve1871- url p. 26.
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- Trees; a handbook of forest-botany for the woodlands and the laboratory Cambridge, At the University press url p. 157, p. 33.
- Tropical wild life in British Guiana: zoological contributions from the Tropical research station of the New York zoological society / by William Beebe. .. G. Inness Hartley. .. and Paul G. Howes. .. with an introduction by Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. New York city: The New York zoological society, 1917- url p. 498.
Notes
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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.
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- Rhytismatales database 2006.
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Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal January 28, 2008:
- Biologiezentrum der Oberoesterreichischen Landesmuseen, Biologiezentrum Linz
- Botanical Research Institute of Texas, Andes to Amazon Biodiversity Program
- Comisión nacional para el conocimiento y uso de la biodiversidad, Herbario del Instituto de Ecología, A.C., México
- Comisión nacional para el conocimiento y uso de la biodiversidad, Herbario del Instituto de Ecología, A.C., México
- GBIF-Spain, Real Jardin Botanico
- , Vascular Plant Herbarium
- Herbarium of the University of Aarhus, The AAU Herbarium Database
- Herbier de la Guyane, Herbier de la Guyane
- Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad
- , Biodiversidad de Costa Rica
- Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
- SysTax, Herbarium Universitat Ulm
- SysTax, New York Botanical Garden
- SysTax, SysTax
- The New York Botanical Garden, Vascular Plant Type Specimens
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2676291
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ILD-11864
- GRIN Nomen Number: 15187
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 565160
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 1009172-1
- U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: ENPO4
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 37257
Footnotes
- Mean = 210.040 meters (689.108 feet), Standard Deviation = 528.540 based on 337 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
