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Zapoteca portoricensis portoricensis

(White Stickpea)

Interesting Facts

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Common Names

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Common Names in English:

White Stickpea

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 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: Shrub • Climbing: Not Climbing

Biology

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Reproduction

Duration: Perennial

Taxonomy

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Synonyms

Acacia portoricensis (Jacq.) Willd. • Anneslia portoricensis (Jacq.) Donn. Sm. • Calliandra portoricensis (Jacq.) Benth. • Feuilleea portoricensis (Jacq.) Kuntze • Mimosa portoricensis Jacq. • Zapoteca portoricensis (Jacq.) H. M. Hern.

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Comment: Climbing : Not climbing, Conservation Status: Not Threatened, Habit: Shrub , Lifespan: Perennial

Last scrutiny: 1994

Similar Species

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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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Notes

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Last Revised: 7/19/2012