Interesting Facts
Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Erythrina, December-Tree
Common Names in Indonesian:
Dadap
Common Names in Informal Latinized N:
Erythrina
Common Names in Sinhalese:
Dadap of the Malays, Eramudu
Common Names in Tamil:
Muruinja
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: 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:
subumbrans
- (Hassk.)Merr.
- Botanical name: - Erythrina subumbrans (Hassk.)Merr.
- Specific epithet:
subumbrans
- (Hassk.)Merr.
- Genus:
Erythrina
(
- Tribe:
Phaseoleae
(
- Subfamily:
Papilionoideae
(
- Family:
Leguminosae
(
- Order:
Fabales
(
- Superorder:
Rosanae
(
- Subclass:
Rosidae
(
- Class:
Spermatopsida
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Synonyms
Erythrina holosericea Kurz • Erythrina lithosperma var. armata Miq. • Erythrina lithosperma var. inermis Miq. • Erythrina secundiflora Hassk. • Erythrina sumatrana Miq. • Hypaphorus subumbrans Hassk. • Hypaphorus subumbrans var. aculeata Hassk. • Hypaphorus subumbrans var. inermis Hassk.
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Comment: Climbing
: Not climbing, Conservation
Status: Not Threatened,
Habit: Tree
, Lifespan: Perennial
Last scrutiny: 1994-1995
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
- A bibliographic enumeration of Bornean plants, by E. D. Merrill. Singapore, Printed by Fraser & Neave, ltd., 1921 url p. 309, p. 309.
- A flora of Manila / Manila: Bureau of Printing, 1912, 1974 printing. url .
- A flora of Manila, by E. D. Merrill. Manila, Bureau of Printing, 1912. url p. 256.
- 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. 80.
- An enumeration of Philippine flowering plants, Manila, Bureau of Printing, 1922-26. url p. 305.
- Botanical publications of E.D. Merrill. [New York, etc., 1899- url , p. 305, p. 309.
- Check-list of the species of fishes known from the Philippine Archipelago, Manila, Bureau of printing, 1910. url p. 13.
- Citrus fruits in the Philippines. Manila: Bureau of Agriculture, 1915. url p. 43.
- Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 45 2003 Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1890- url p. 244, p. 468, p. 528.
- Flora Vitiensis nova: a new Flora of Fiji (spermatophytes only) / Albert C. Smith. Lawaii, Hawaii: Pacific Tropical Botanical Garden, 1979- url p. 202, p. 203, p. 204.
- Mammalian diversity on Mount Isarog: a threatened center of endemism on southern Luzon Island, Philippines / Lawrence R. Heaney. .. [et al.]. 95 1999 [Chicago, Ill.]: Field Museum of Natural History, c1999. url fig. 9 , p. 11, p. 25.
- Phytologia. Bronx Park, New York, H.A. Gleason and H.N. Moldenke, url p. 10, p. 109, p. 114, p. 142, p. 257, p. 296, p. 3, p. 302, p. 344, p. 4, p. 442.
- Pre-project study on the conservation status of tropical timbers in trade. Final report to International Tropical Timber Organization. Vol 1 ITTO url p. 196.
- The Philippine journal of science. 5 1910 Manila. url p. 113, p. 177.
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed March 27, 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).
- Sokoloff DD, 2001-03 (from ILDIS).
- Stirton CH, 2001-06 (from ILDIS).
- The Global Lepidoptera Names Index2, 12.2, 2005.
- The International Plant Names Index. Accessed Jan 19, 2007.
- The Virtual Field Herbarium.
- Thomson, Christian (from Diptera).
- USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL (April 27, 2008)
- USDA, NRCS. 2005. The PLANTS Database, Version 3.5 (http://plants.usda.gov). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA.
- Vaz AMSF, 2001-05 (from ILDIS).
- 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.
- van der Maesen LJG, 1993 (from ILDIS).
- van der Maesen, LJG, 2001-03 (from ILDIS).
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal January 28, 2008:
- Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Bishop Museum Natural History Specimen Data
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2670319
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ILD-16001
- GRIN Nomen Number: 15769
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 506327
- U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: ERSU15
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 38476
Footnotes
- "Erythrina". in Flora of Pakistan Page 235. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
