Interesting Facts
Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Angico De Bezerro, Jurema Preta, Rama De Bezerro
Common Names in Portuguese:
Angico De Bezerro
Description
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
Habit: Tree • Climbing: Not Climbing
Habitat
Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 956 meters (0 to 3,136 feet).[1]
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:
Magnoliopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Dicotyledons
- Subclass:
Rosidae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Rosanae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Order:
Fabales
()
- Bromhead, 1838
- Family:
Leguminosae
()
- A.L. de Jussieu, 1789, nom. cons.
- Subfamily:
Mimosoideae
()
- Tribe:
Mimoseae
()
- Genus:
Piptadenia
()
- Bentham, 1840
- Specific epithet:
moniliformis
- Benth.
- Botanical name: - Piptadenia moniliformis Benth.
- Specific epithet:
moniliformis
- Benth.
- Genus:
Piptadenia
(
- Tribe:
Mimoseae
(
- Subfamily:
Mimosoideae
(
- Family:
Leguminosae
(
- Order:
Fabales
(
- Superorder:
Rosanae
(
- Subclass:
Rosidae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
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 Piptadenia
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 3 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
P. flava (Parate-Hay) · P. moniliformis (Angico De Bezerro) · P. santosii (Calumbi)
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Further Reading
- Britton, N. L. (ed.). North American flora. [New York]New York Botanical Garden. url p. 190.
- Journal of botany: being a second series of the Botanical miscellany. 4 1842 London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman; Edinburgh: A. & C. Black, 1834-1842. url p. 339.
- Memo?rias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Rio de Janeiro. url p. 163.
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 16, 2012.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 21, 2007:
- SysTax, Herbarium Universitat Ulm
- SysTax, New York Botanical Garden
- SysTax, SysTax
- The New York Botanical Garden, Species of Eastern Brazil Vascular Plant Specimens
- The New York Botanical Garden, Vascular Plant Type Specimens
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2840003
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ILD-15544
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13635854
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:514414-1
- GRIN Nomen Number: 437201
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 403655
Footnotes
- Mean = 530.570 meters (1,740.715 feet), Standard Deviation = 258.620 based on 42 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
