Interesting Facts
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]
Physical Description
Habit: Shrub • Climbing: Not Climbing
Biology
Reproduction
Duration: Perennial
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
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Magnoliophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Synonyms
Anneslia mollis (Standl.)britton & Rose • Calliandra mollis Standl.
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Comment: Climbing
: Not climbing, Conservation
Status: Insufficiently
known, Habit: Shrub
, Lifespan: Perennial
Last scrutiny: 1994
Similar Species
Members of the genus Zapoteca
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 9 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
Z. alinae (Barba De Chivo) · Z. formosa (Schott False Mesquite) · Z. formosa subsp. rosei (Huaje De Caballo) · Z. lambertiana (Barba De Chivo) · Z. media (Cabellito De Angel) · Z. nervosa (Pti-Gaiac) · Z. portoricensis (Plants) · Z. portoricensis portoricensis (White Stickpea) · Z. tetragona (Angel)
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Further Reading
Notes
Contributors
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal January 28, 2008:
- Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad
- , Biodiversidad de Costa Rica
- Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2839307
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ILD-14652
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:943975-1
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 402931
