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Pterocarpus officinalis

(Dragon Blood Tree)

Common Names

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Common Names in English:

Bloodwood, Corticeira, Dragon Blood Tree, Dragonsblood Tree, Lagunero, Mang Tree, Mututi, Paleta, Sangre De Drago, Sangre De Gallo, Sangregado, Sangrillo, Tinteira

Common Names in French:

Mangle Médaille (Antilles), Moutouchi (Guyane), Moutouchi-Rivière, Sangdragon (Antilles)

Common Names in Spanish:

Bollo Blanco (Colombia), Drague, Lagunero, Palo De Pollo (Puerto Rico), Palo De Sangre, Sangre, Sangre De Drago, Sangre De Gallo

Common Names in Spanish (Col:

Bollo Blanco

Description

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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 Faboideae

Mostly herbs, shrubs , or trees . Leaves pinnate or palmate to trifoliolate or apparently simple . Corolla usually, showy, zygomorphic, the petals imbricate, posterior (upper or banner ) petal outermost in bud. Stamens 10 or 9 + 1 (diadelphous ), not showy. Pollen released in monads . Seeds with u-shaped line (pleurogram) lacking. [Carr]

Physical Description

Habit: Tree • Climbing: Not Climbing

Habitat

Typically found in the intertidal zone at the water's edge at a mean distance from sea level of 145 meters (475 feet).[1]

Biology

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Reproduction

Duration: Perennial Often Hosts Morpho Peleides Limpida

Taxonomy

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Unambiguous Synonyms

  1. Lingoum officinale (Jacq.) Kuntze
  2. Lingoum officinale (Jacq.)kuntze
  3. Moutouchi crispata /i> (Dc.)benth.
  4. Moutouchi suberosa Aubl.
  5. Pterocarpus belizensis Standl.
  6. Pterocarpus crispatus Dc.
  7. Pterocarpus draco L.
  8. Pterocarpus hemipterus Gaertn.
  9. Pterocarpus moutouchi Poir.
  10. Pterocarpus suberosus (Aubl.)pers.

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: –

Place of publication : Select. stirp. amer. hist. 283, t. 183, fig. 92. 1763

Name verified on 31-Jul-1987 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 04-Aug-2006

Similar Species

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Members of the genus Pterocarpus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 125 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

P. abyssinicus · P. acapulcensis · P. adansonii · P. advena · P. advenus · P. africanus · P. albopubescens · P. amazonicus · P. amazonum · P. amphymenium · P. ancylocalyx · P. angolensis (West African Barwood) · P. antunesii · P. aphyllus · P. aptera · P. apterus · P. ateleia · P. australis · P. belizensis · P. brenanii · P. buchananii · P. bussei · P. buxifolius · P. cabrae · P. casteelsi · P. chrysothrix · P. claessensii · P. crispatus · P. cultratus · P. dalbergiodes · P. dalbergioides (East Indian-Mahogany) · P. dekindtianus · P. delevoyi · P. discolor · P. indicus · P. ebenus · P. ecastaphyllum · P. echinatus · P. elisabethvillensis · P. ellipticus · P. erinaceus (West African Rosewood) · P. esculentus · P. falcatus · P. floribundus · P. frutescens · P. gilletii · P. glabratus · P. gracilis · P. grandiflorus · P. grandis · P. guianensis · P. gummifer · P. hayesii · P. hemipterus · P. heterophyllus · P. hockii · P. homblei · P. indica · P. indicus (Papua New Guinea Rosewood) · P. indicus f. echinatus · P. javanicus · P. kaessneri · P. lucens · P. lunatus · P. macrocarpus (Burma Padauk) · P. marsupium (East Indian/malabar Kino) · P. marsupium acuminatus · P. marsupium marsupium (East Indian/malabar Kino) · P. martinii · P. melliferus · P. michelianus · P. michelii · P. microcarpus · P. mildbraedii · P. mildbraedii mildbraedii · P. mildbraedii usambarensis (White Padouk) · P. monophyllus · P. mutondo · P. niger · P. nitens · P. odoratus · P. officinalis (Dragonsblood Tree) · P. officinalis officinalis (Dragonsblood Tree) · P. orbiculatus · P. osun (Pterocarpus) · P. pedatus · P. peltaria · P. podocarpus · P. polyanthus · P. pubescens · P. quercinus · P. reticulatus · P. robusta · P. robustus · P. rohrii (Sangue-De-Drago) · P. rorhii · P. rotundifolius · P. rotundifolius polyanthus · P. rotundifolius rotundifolius · P. rufescens

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Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 28, 2007:

Identifiers

Footnotes

  1. Standard Deviation = 505.590 based on 206 observations. Terrestrial altitude and ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
Last Revised: 7/1/2009