Erythrina vespertilio

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• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Biology
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
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• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 720 meters (0 to 2,362 feet).[2]

Biology

Reproduction

Duration: Perennial

Growth

Culture: Space 12-15' apart.

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Full Sun .

Temperature: Cold Hardiness: 10a, 10b, 11. (map)

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Corallodendron vespertilio (Benth.)kuntze • Erythrina biloba F. Muell. • Erythrina vespertilio var. biloba Domin • Erythrina vespertilio var. typica Domin

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

• Among cannibals; an account of four years' travels in Australia and of camp life with the aborigines of Queensland; by Carl Lumholtz...tr. by Rasmus B. Anderson... New York, C. Scribner's sons, 1889. url p. 141.
• Forest culture and eucalyptus trees, San FranciscoCubery1876 url p. 140.
• Great Basin naturalist memoirs. 1992 [Provo, Utah]Brigham Young University, 1976-1992. url p. 1279.
• Illustrations of Australian plants collected in 1770 during Captain Cook's voyage round the world in H.M.S. Endeavour /by the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander, with determinations by James Britten. 3 1905 London, Printed by order of the Trustees of the British Museum, sold by Longmans, 1900-05. url p. 100, p. 23, plate 71.
• Inventory of seeds and plants imported / U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry. Washington, D.C.: G.P.O., 1914-1924. url p. 85, p. 89, p. 91.
• Natural science. London: Macmillan & Co., [1892-1899] url p. 756.
• Natural science: a monthly review of scientific progress. London [etc.]: Macmillan and Company [etc.], [1892-1899] url p. 756.
• Observations of a naturalist in the Pacific between 1896 and 1899 / by H.B. Guppy. London: Macmillan and Co., 1903-1906. url p. 144, p. 613.
• Phytologia. Bronx Park, New York, H.A. Gleason and H.N. Moldenke, url p. 125, p. 215, p. 262, p. 300, p. 354, p. 452.
• Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. Washington, etc.: Entomological Society of Washington url p. 302.
• Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. Sydney, Linnean Society of New South Wales. url p. 240, p. 423, p. 467, p. 60, p. 63.
• Second systematic census of Australian plants, with chronologic, literary and geographic annotations; by Baron Ferdinand von Mueller. Pt. I. --Vasculares. Melbourne: Printed for the Victorian Government by McCarron. Bird & Co., 1889. url p. 71.
• Systematic arrangement of Australian Fungi, together with host-index and list of works on the subject. By D. McAlpine. Melbourne, R.S. Brain, Govt. Printer, 1895. url p. 216.
• The American florist: a weekly journal for the trade. Chicago: American Florist Company, [1885-1931] url p. 1050, p. 1077.
• 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. 357, p. 358.
• The botany of the Kimberleys, Northwest Australia. [Perth, W. Simpson, Govt. Printer]1918. url .
• The useful native plants of Australia, (including Tasmania) by J. H. Maiden. Sydney, Turner and Henderson, 1889. url p. 426.
• Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. Adelaide, Australia: The Society, 1890-1903. url p. 100.

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 28, 2007:

• Australian National Herbarium
• , Australian National Herbarium

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2840384
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ILD-16005
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13741839
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:90169-3
• GRIN Nomen Number: 15776
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 404113

Footnotes

1. "Erythrina". in Flora of Pakistan Page 235. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
2. Mean = 208.820 meters (685.105 feet), Standard Deviation = 181.960 based on 78 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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