Overview
Interesting Facts
Common Names
Common Names in English:
Pito
Description
Genus Erythrina
Trees
, shrubs
or undershrubs; branches often prickly. Leaf pinnately trifoliolate
; stipels
glandular
; stipules small. Inflorescence axillary
or terminal
racemes
, flowers usually clustered, scarlet, showy. Calyx with an oblique
mouth
, splitting
down
to the base
or campanulate
, bilabiate. Vexillum much longer
than the wing
and the keel. Stamens mono
or diadelphous
, vexillary stamen free nearly to the base or connate
with others, anthers
uniform
. Ovary stipitate
, many-ovuled, style incurved
, stigma small, terminal. Fruit stipitate, torulose
, falcate
.
A genus with about 108 species (Krukoff & Barneby l.c.), tropical
and sub-tropical in distribution; locally represented by 3 species.[1]
Physical Description
Habit: Shrub , Tree • Climbing: Not Climbing
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:
Papilionoideae
()
- Tribe:
Phaseoleae
()
- Genus:
Erythrina
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1753
- Erythrina
- Specific epithet:
mexicana
- Krukoff
- Botanical name: - Erythrina mexicana Krukoff
- Specific epithet:
mexicana
- Krukoff
- Genus:
Erythrina
(
- Tribe:
Phaseoleae
(
- Subfamily:
Papilionoideae
(
- Family:
Leguminosae
(
- Order:
Fabales
(
- Superorder:
Rosanae
(
- Subclass:
Rosidae
(
- Class:
Spermatopsida
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Comment: Climbing
: Not climbing, Conservation
Status: Not Threatened,
Habit: Shrub
, Habit: Tree
, Lifespan: Perennial
Similar Species
Members of the genus Erythrina
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 50 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
E. abyssinica (Coral Tree) · E. abyssinica abyssinica (Erythrina) · E. acanthocarpa (Tambookie Thorn) · E. americana (Naked Coral Tree) · E. berteriana (Machete) · E. berteroana (Amapola De Cerca) · E. bidwillii (Amapola) · E. caffra (Cape Kaffirboom) · E. chiapasana (Pipal) · E. chiriquensis (Erythrina) · E. corallodendron (Amapola) · E. corallodendron var. bicolor (Bois Immortelle) · E. coralloides (Naked Coral Tree) · E. crista-galli (Brazillian Coral Tree) · E. dominguezii (Seibo Rosado) · E. edulis (Sachaporoto) · E. eggersii (Cock's-Spur) · E. falcata (Brazilian Coral Tree) · E. flabelliformis (Colorines) · E. folkersii (Coral Tree) · E. fusca (Amapola) · E. guatemalensis (Pito) · E. herbacea (Cardinal Spear) · E. humeana (Coral Bean) · E. indica (Indian Coral Tree) · E. indica var. picta (Samoan Sunshine Tree) · E. lanceolata (Machete Tree) · E. latissima (Broad-Leafed Coral Tree) · E. lysistemon (Common Coral Tree) · E. macrophylla (Machetillos) · E. mexicana (Pito) · E. mitis (Nourouc Sans pines) · E. poeppigiana (Anauca) · E. sandwicensis (Wili Wili) · E. senegalensis (Senegal Coraltree) · E. speciosa (Coral Tree) · E. speciosa 'Rosea' (Coral Tree) · E. standleyana (Chacmolche) · E. stricta (Coral-Tree) · E. suberosa (Coral Tree) · E. subumbrans (Erythrina) · E. sykesii (Coral Tree) · E. tahitensis (Oporavainui) · E. variegata (Amapola) · E. velutina (Bico-De-Papagaio) · E. verna (Mulungú) · E. vespertilio (Bat's Wing Coral Tree) · E. x bidwillii (Coral Tree) · E. x sykesii (Coral Tree) · E. zeyheri (Ploughbreaker)
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Further Reading
- Botanical Museum leaflets, Harvard University. 9 1941 Cambridge, Mass.: Botanical Museum, Harvard University, 1932- url p. 175.
- 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. 257.
- Phytologia memoirs. Plainfield, N.J.: H.N. Moldenke and A.L. Moldenke, 1980- url p. 82, p. 9.
- Phytologia. Bronx Park, New York, H.A. Gleason and H.N. Moldenke, url p. 121, p. 122, p. 136, p. 14, p. 246, p. 247, p. 261.
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed March 27, 2012.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 19, 2007:
- Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
- The New York Botanical Garden, Vascular Plant Type Specimens
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2865743
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ILD-8793
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13641990
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:96620-2
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 430667
Footnotes
- "Erythrina". in Flora of Pakistan Page 235. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
