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Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Curupay
Common Names in Spanish:
Cebil, Cebil Colorado
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]
Habitat
Biome: Terrestrial [1].
Ecology: A tree of seasonally dry climate, occurring in caatinga, cerrado and dry forest on deep soils.[1].
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:
Anadenanthera
()
- Spegazzini, 1923
- Specific epithet:
colubrina
- (Vell.) Brenan
- Nakedwood
- Variety:
cebil
- Botanical name: - Anadenanthera colubrina var. cebil (Vell.) Brenan
- Variety:
cebil
- Specific epithet:
colubrina
- (Vell.) Brenan
- Nakedwood
- Genus:
Anadenanthera
(
- Tribe:
Mimoseae
(
- Subfamily:
Mimosoideae
(
- Family:
Leguminosae
(
- Order:
Fabales
(
- Superorder:
Rosanae
(
- Subclass:
Rosidae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Synonyms
Acacia cebil Griseb. • Anadenanthera macrocarpa (Benth.)brenan • Piptadenia cebil (Griseb.)griseb. • Piptadenia hassleriana Chodat • Piptadenia hassleriana var. fruticosa Chodat & Hassl. • Piptadenia macrocarpa Benth. • Piptadenia macrocarpa var. cebil (Griseb.)chodat & Hassl. • Piptadenia macrocarpa var. genuina Chodat & Hassl. • Piptadenia macrocarpa var. plurifoliata Hoehne • Piptadenia macrocarpa var. vestita Chodat & Hassl. • Piptadenia microphylla Benth.
Notes
Publishing author
: Altschul Publication
: Contr. Gray Herb. 193: 53
1964 .
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 Anadenanthera
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 3 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
A. colubrina (Branco) · A. colubrina var. cebil (Curupay) · A. peregrina (Bois Galle)
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Further Reading
- Brako, L. and Zarucchi, J.L. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 45: 1-1286.
- Chebez, Juan Carlos. 1994. Los que se van. Buenos Aires, Argentina: Albatros.
- Chudnoff, M. 1984. Tropical Timbers of the World. Forest Products Laboratory Madison, United States Department of Agriculture, Wisconsin.
- FAO Forestry Department. 1986. Databook on endangered tree and shrub species and their provenances. FAO, Rome.
- Killeen, T. 1997. Comments on the species summaries for Bolivia.
- Lewis, G. 1998. Annotations on 'Tree Species Evaluation using the new CITES Listing Criteria'.
- Oldfield, S., Lusty, C. and MacKinven, A. (compilers). 1998. The World List of Threatened Trees. World Conservation Press, Cambridge, UK.
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
- IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
- World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. Anadenanthera colubrina var. cebil. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 30January2012.
Identifiers
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ILD-15575
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13666759
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:12265-2
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 1147895-1
- IUCN ID: 3124
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1021929
Footnotes
- World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. Anadenanthera colubrina var. cebil. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 30 January 2012. [back]
