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
- 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
- Subclass:
Rosidae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Magnoliophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Similar Species
Members of the genus Senegalia
There are approximately 58 species in this genus:
S. acapulcensis · S. affinis · S. angustifolia · S. angustissima · S. anisophylla · S. compacta · S. confusa · S. cordobana · S. coulteri · S. crassifolia · S. cundinamarca · S. durangensis · S. eliasiana · S. ferruginea · S. filicina · S. gaumeri · S. guadalupensis · S. heterophylla · S. hirsuta · S. iguana · S. imterior · S. lobana · S. lozanii · S. mammifera · S. membranacea · S. millifolia · S. occidentalis · S. painteri · S. paniculata · S. peninsularis · S. podadenia · S. popayana · S. potosina · S. purpusii · S. rekoana · S. reniformis · S. retusa · S. riparioidea · S. riparoides · S. rufescens · S. rugata · S. russelliana · S. salazari · S. saltilloensis · S. senegal · S. sericea · S. somria · S. sororia · S. striata · S. subangulata · S. submontana · S. subsessilis · S. tenuifolia var. producta · S. tomentella · S. triacantha · S. tucumanensis · S. turbacensis · S. vogeliana
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Notes
Contributors
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed November 21, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 2 providers.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 21, 2007:
- The New York Botanical Garden, Vascular Plant Type Specimens
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3451367
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15570658
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:518233-1
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1087766
