Parkia biglobosa

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Common Names

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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]

Subfamily Mimosoideae

Mostly trees or shrubs . Leaves mostly bipinnate. Corolla usually not showy, actinomorphic , sympetalous , the lobes valvate . Stamens 10-numerous, often monadelphous , showy. Pollen released in monads , tetrads , or polyads . Seeds with u-shaped line (pleurogram) present. [Carr]

Physical Description

Biology

Reproduction

Duration: Perennial

Taxonomy

Unambiguous Synonyms

1. Parkia africana R. Br.
2. Parkia clappertoniana Keay
3. Parkia intermedia Oliv.
4. Parkia oliveri J. F. Macbr.

Misapplied Names

1. Parkia filicoidea Oliver

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: Hopkins H.F., 1994

Place of publication : J. C. Loudon, Hort. brit . ed. 1:277. 1830 (G. Bentham, J. Bot. (Hooker) 4:328. 1841)

Name verified on 13-Oct-1989 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 28-Jan-2005

Similar Species

Members of the genus Parkia

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 70 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

P. timoriana · P. biglandulosa · P. timoriana · P. agboensis · P. arborea · P. auriculata · P. bahiae · P. balslevii · P. barnebyana · P. bicolor (African Locust-Bean) · P. biglandulosa (Kiboko) · P. biglobosa (West African Locust-Bean) · P. bussei · P. cachimboensis · P. clappertonia · P. clappertoniana · P. decussata · P. discolor · P. dongnaiensis · P. filicina · P. filicoidea (Fern-Leaved Nitta Tree) · P. fraterna · P. gigantocarpa (Faveira Atanan) · P. graveolens · P. harbesonii · P. hoffmanni · P. igneiflora · P. insignis · P. intermedia · P. inundabilis · P. javanica · P. korom (Korom) · P. leiophylla · P. lutea · P. macrocarpa · P. madagascariensis · P. multijuga · P. nitida (Faveira P‚ De Arara) · P. oliveri · P. oppositifolia · P. orae · P. panurensis · P. paraensis · P. parrii · P. parvifoliola · P. paya · P. pectinata · P. pedunculata · P. pendula (Black Manariballi (Guyana)) · P. platycephala (Parkia) · P. reticulata · P. roxburghii · P. sherfeseei · P. singularis · P. singularis borneensis · P. singularis singularis · P. speciosa (Twisted Cluster Bean) · P. streptocarpa · P. sumatrana · P. sumatrana streptocarpa · P. sumatrana sumatrana · P. sylvatica · P. timoriana · P. truncata · P. ulei · P. ulei var. surinamensis · P. ulei var. ulei · P. uniglobosa · P. velutina · P. versteeghii

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Further Reading

• Abbiw, D. K. 1990. Useful plants of Ghana. (Use Pl Ghana)
• Annales botanices systematicae. Auctore Guilielmo Gerardo Walpers. Lipsiae, Sumtibus F. Hofmeister, 1848-68. LAT url p. 613, p. 852.
• Annales du Muse colonial de Marseille. Marseille: Muse colonial, 1907-1954. FRE url p. 20, p. 21.
• Arkiv för zoologi / utgivet af K. Svenska vetenskaps-akademien. Stockholm: P.A. Norstedt & soner, 1903-1974. SWE url p. 33.
• Berhaut, J. 1971–. Flore illustrée du Senegal. (F Senegal)
• Botanisches Zentralblatt; referierendes Organ für das Gesamtgebiet der Botanik. Jena [etc.]G. Fischer [etc.] GER url p. 160, p. 240, p. 47, p. 514.
• Boudet, G. et al. 1986. Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Mali. (L Mali)
• Burkill, H. M. 1985–2004. The useful plants of west tropical Africa. (Use Pl WT Afr)
• Catalogue of scientific papers, 1800-1900. Compiled by the Royal Society of London. London, C.J. Clay and Sons, 1867-1902 [etc.] Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1914-25. ENG url p. 713.
• Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des s©ances de l'Acad©mie des sciences. Paris: publi©s avec le concours du Centre national de la recherche scientifique par MM. les secr©taires perp©tuels: -1965. FRE url p. 1207, p. 187.
• Experiment station record. Washington: G.P.O., 1889-1946. ENG url p. 1302, p. 167, p. 598.
• Great Basin naturalist memoirs. [Provo, Utah]Brigham Young University, 1976-1992. ENG url p. 1308.
• Hagos, T. H. 1962. Acta Bot. Neerl. 11:252.
• Hopkins, H. 1983. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 87:141.
• International catalogue of scientific literature. London: Published for the International Council by the Royal Society of London, 1902-1919. ENG url p. 374.
• Journal de botanique. Paris, Bureau de journaux. FRE url p. 49.
• Just's botanischer jahresbericht. Systematisch geordnetes repertorium der botanischen literatur aller länder. Berlin, Gebr. Borntraeger, 1874-98; GER url p. 1036, p. 1112, p. 1366, p. 233, p. 339, p. 38, p. 644, p. 668, p. 703, p. 876.
• L'Agriculture pratique des pays chauds. Paris: Augustin Challamel, [1901-1932] FRE url p. 135.
• Lebrun, J.-P. et al. 1972. Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Tchad meridional. (L SChad)
• Me?moires /Socie?te? botanique de France. 1907-1912 [Paris: La Socie?te?, 1905-1921. FRE url p. 35, p. 7.
• Naturwissenschaftliche Rundschau: wöchentliche Berichte über die Fortschritte auf dem Gesammtgebiete der Naturwissenschaften. Braunschweig: Druck und verlag von Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn, 1886- GER url p. 452.
• Novitates Zoologicae. London. url p. 290.
• PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) - on-line resource. (PROTABASE)
• Plant-geography upon a physiological basis. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1903. ENG url p. 307.
• Polhill, R.M. 1987 Fl.Mascareignes;Leguminosae-Caesalps., typescript
• Quedraogo, A. S. 1995. Parkia biglobosa (Leguminosae) in West Africa; biosystematics and improvement. viii + 205 pp. [publ. by Agric. Univ. Wageningen].
• Symbolae Antillanae, seu, Fundamenta florae Indiae Occidentalis / edidit Ignatius Urban. Berolini: Fratres Borntraeger, 1898-1928. GER url p. 823.
• Systematische Untersuchungen ber die Vegetation der Karaiben, inbesondere der Insel Guadeloupe. Gttingen, Verlag der Dieterichschen Buchhandlung, 1857. GER url p. 62.
• The Review of applied entomology. Farnham Royal, Eng. [etc.]: Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux [etc.] ENG url p. 264.
• The transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis. St. Louis: The Academy, 1860-1958. ENG url p. 230.

Notes

Contributors

• Bisby FA, Roskov YR, Orrell TM, Nicolson D, Paglinawan LE, Bailly N, Kirk PM, Bourgoin T, van Hertum J, eds (2008). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2008 Annual Checklist Taxonomic Classification. CD-ROM; Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed January 28, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 5 providers.
• ILDIS
• USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL (May 05, 2008)

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal January 28, 2008:

• Herbarium of the University of Aarhus, The AAU Herbarium Database
• International Plant Genetic Resources Institute(IPGRI), The System-wide Information Network for Genetic Resources
• Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3905976
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ILD-144
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13636253
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:941491-1
• GRIN Nomen Number: 26777
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 402692

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