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]
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
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Dicotyledons
- Subclass:
Rosidae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Fabanae
()
- R. Dahlgren Ex Reveal, 1993
- Order:
Fabales
()
- Bromhead, 1838
- Family:
Fabaceae
()
- Lindley, 1836
- Bean Family
- Genus:
Otholobium
()
- Specific epithet:
glandulosum
- (L.) J.W. Grimes
- Botanical name: - Otholobium glandulosum (L.) J.W. Grimes
- Specific epithet:
glandulosum
- (L.) J.W. Grimes
- Genus:
Otholobium
(
- Family:
Fabaceae
(
- Order:
Fabales
(
- Superorder:
Fabanae
(
- Subclass:
Rosidae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Magnoliophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Similar Species
Members of the genus Otholobium
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 54 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
O. acuminatum · O. arborescens · O. argenteum · O. bolusii · O. bowieanum · O. brachystachyum · O. bracteolatum (Otholobium) · O. caffrum · O. candicans · O. carnea · O. carneum · O. decumbens · O. diffidens · O. flexuosum · O. foliosum · O. fruticans · O. glandulosum · O. hamatum · O. heterosepalum · O. higuerilla · O. hirtum · O. holosericeum · O. incanum · O. lanceolatum · O. macradenium · O. mexicanum · O. mundianum · O. munyense · O. nigricans · O. obliquum · O. parviflorum · O. pictum · O. polyphyllum · O. polystictum · O. pubescens · O. pungens · O. pustulatum · O. racemosum · O. rotundifolium · O. rubicundum · O. sericeum · O. spicatum · O. spissum · O. stachydis · O. stachyerum · O. striatum · O. swartbergense · O. thomii · O. trianthum · O. uncinatum · O. venustum · O. virgatum · O. wilmsii · O. zeyheri
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Notes
Contributors
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 03, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 03, 2008:
- Missouri Botanical Garden
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3451781
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1168418-2
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1073933
