Interesting Facts
Description
Family Fabaceae
The Fabaceae are herbs, vines , shrubs , trees , and lianas found in both temperate and tropical areas. They comprise one of the largest families of flowering plants , numbering 630 genera and 18,000 species. The leaves are stipulate , nearly always alternate, and range from bipinnately or palmately compound to simple . The petiole base is commonly enlarged into a pulvinus that commonly functions in orientation of the leaves (sometimes very responsively, as in the sensitive plant, Mimosa pudica). The flowers are usually bisexual , actinomorphic to zygomorphic, slightly to strongly perigynous, and commonly in racemes , spikes, or heads . The perianth commonly consists of a calyx and corolla of 5 segments each. The androecium consists of commonly 1- many stamens (most commonly 10), distinct or variously united , sometimes some of them reduced to staminodes. The pistil is simple, often stipitate , comprising a single style and stigma, and a superior ovary with one locule containing 2-many marginal ovules. The fruit is usually a legume, sometimes a samara, loment, follicle, indehiscent pod, achene, drupe, or berry. The seeds often have a hard coat with hourglass-shaped cells , and sometimes bear a u-shaped line called a pleurogram. [Carr]
Physical Description
Habit: Shrub • 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:
Magnoliophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 Ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Flowering Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
()
- Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Subclass:
Rosidae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Fabanae
()
- R. Dahlgren Ex Reveal, 1993
- Order:
Fabales
()
- Bromhead, 1838
- Family:
Fabaceae
()
- Lindley, 1836
- Bean Family
- Genus:
Macrosamanea
()
- Specific epithet:
pubiramea
- (Steud.)Barneby & J.W.Grimes
- Variety:
pubiramea
- Botanical name: - Macrosamanea pubiramea var. pubiramea (Steud.)Barneby & J.W.Grimes (Steud.)Barneby & J.W.Grimes
- Variety:
pubiramea
- Specific epithet:
pubiramea
- (Steud.)Barneby & J.W.Grimes
- Genus:
Macrosamanea
(
- Family:
Fabaceae
(
- Order:
Fabales
(
- Superorder:
Fabanae
(
- Subclass:
Rosidae
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Magnoliophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Synonyms
Feuilleea longiflora (Benth.)kuntze • Inga pubiramea Steud. • Macrosamanea longiflora (Benth.)pittier • Pithecellobium adiantifolium var. multipinnum (A. Heller)a. Heller • Pithecellobium longiflorum Benth. • Pithecellobium miquelianum Meissner • Pithecolobium longiflorum Benth. • Pithecolobium miquelianum Meissner
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Comment: Climbing
: Not climbing, Habit: Shrub
, Lifespan: Perennial
Last scrutiny: May-2001
Similar Species
Members of the genus Macrosamanea
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 4 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
M. consanguinea (Arepillo) · M. discolor var. discolor (Guamita Orillera) · M. kegelii (Water Tamarind) · M. spruceana (Pashaquilla)
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Further Reading
Notes
Contributors
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. [http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/Taxonomicon/]. Access date: Nov 23, 2005
- ILDIS World Database of Legumes. Release date: May 1, 2007
- ILDIS World Database of Legumes
- ILDIS World Database of LegumesNov 10, 2005.
- Nielsen IC & Rico ML, 1994 (from ILDIS).
- 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.
Identifiers
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ILD-9402
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13668911
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1478527
