Overview
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Critically Endangered |
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Interesting Facts
Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Lotus Vine, Parrot-Beak Flower, Parrots Beak Lotus Maculatus
Common Names in Spanish:
Pico de El Sauzal, Pico de Paloma
Description
Genus Lotus
Annual
or perennial
, herbs or semishrubs. Leaf pinnately compound
; leaflets
5, 3 at the apex and 2 at the base
resembling stipules, or the basal leaflets absent, entire. Stipules absent or represented by glands
or minute, deciduous. Inflorescence an axillary
pedunculate
or almost sessile umbel, subtended by 1-3 leafy bracts or flower solitary axillary. Calyx tubular
, bilabiate. Corolla yellow, pinkish, red, purple or white, free
from stamens, keel pointed
or beaked
. Stamens diadelphous
, 9+1, alternate filaments
dilated
at the apex. Fruit dehiscent
, generally many seeded.
A genus with 60-100 species, most numerous
around the Mediterranean[1]
Physical Description
Habit: Shrub , Herb • Climbing: Not Climbing
Flowers: Bloom Period: January, February, June. • Flower Color: red-orange
Size/Age/Growth
Size: 24-36" tall.
Habitat
Ecology:
It grows in halophile
shrublands under direct influence of the sea
(Buord and Lesouëf 2006). Common accompanying species are Schizogyne
sericea, Salsola divaricata,
Limonium pectinatum, Astydamia
latifolia, Frankenia
ericifolia,
Scilla haemorrhoidalis and
Crithmum maritimum (Marrero
Gómez and Mesa Coello 2004).[2].
List of Habitats
:
- 3 Shrubland
- 3.8 Shrubland - Mediterranean-type Shrubby Vegetation
- 13 Marine Coastal/Supratidal
- 13.1 Marine Coastal/Supratidal - Sea Cliffs and Rocky Offshore Islands
Biology
Reproduction
Duration: Perennial
Growth
Culture: Space 18-24" apart.
Soil: Minimum pH: 6.6 • Maximum pH: 7.5
Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Full Sun .
Temperature: Cold Hardiness: 9a, 9b, 10a, 10b, 11. (map)
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:
Spermatopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Subclass:
Rosidae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Rosanae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Order:
Fabales
()
- Bromhead, 1838
- Family:
Leguminosae
()
- A.L. de Jussieu, 1789, nom. cons.
- Subfamily:
Papilionoideae
()
- Subfamily:
Papilionoideae
(
- Family:
Leguminosae
(
- Order:
Fabales
(
- Superorder:
Rosanae
(
- Subclass:
Rosidae
(
- Class:
Spermatopsida
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Synonyms
Lotus maculatus Breitf.
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Comment: Climbing
: Not climbing, Habit: Herb, Habit: Shrub
, Lifespan:
Perennial
Last scrutiny: Mar-2001
Similar Species
Members of the genus Lotus
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 48 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
L. angustissimus (Slender Bird's-Foot Trefoil) · L. argophyllus argophyllus var. argophyllus (Silver Bird's-Foot Trefoil) · L. argophyllus var. adsurgens (Santa Cruz Island Silverhosackia) · L. argyraeus var. argyraeus (Canyon Bird's-Foot Trefoil) · L. argyraeus var. multicaulis (Canyon Bird's-Foot Trefoil) · L. australis (Australian Trefoil) · L. berthelotii (Coral Gem) · L. callunetorum (Lyadvenetz Vereshchatnikovyi) · L. corniculatus (Babys Slippers) · L. corniculatus corniculatus (Birdsfoot Trefoil) · L. corniculatus fruticosus (Bird´s-Foot Trefoil) · L. corniculatus tenuifolius (Birdsfoot Trefoil) · L. corniculatus 'Plenus' (Double Birds Foot Trefoil) · L. crassifolius var. crassifolius (Big Deervetch) · L. cruentus (Red Bird´s-Foot Trefoil) · L. dendroideus var. dendroideus (Island Broom) · L. glaber (Narrow-Leaf Bird's-Foot Trefoil) · L. grandiflorus var. grandiflorus (Chaparral Bird's-Foot Trefoil) · L. heermannii var. heermannii (Heermann's Bird's-Foot Trefoil) · L. hirsutus 'Brimstone' (Hairy Canary Clover) · L. hispidus (Hairy Birdsfoot Trefoil) · L. jacobaeus (Lotus Jacobaeus) · L. junceus var. junceus (Rush Broom) · L. krylovii (Krylov's Birdsfoot Trefoil) · L. maculatus (Lotus Vine) · L. maculatus 'Amazon Sunset' (Amazon Sunset Lotus Vine) · L. maritimus (Square-Podded Bird´s Foot Trefoil (Usa)) · L. mearnsii var. equisolensis (Mearns' Bird's-Foot Trefoil) · L. mearnsii var. mearnsii (Mearns' Bird's-Foot Trefoil) · L. nevadensis var. nevadensis (Nevada Bird's-Foot Trefoil) · Hosackia oblongifolia (Streambank Bird's-Foot Trefoil) · L. oblongifolius var. oblongifolius (Narrow-Leaved Lotus) · L. palustris (Large Birds-Foot Trefoil) · L. parviflorus (Small-Flower Trefoil) · L. pedunculatus (Big Trefoil) · L. plebeius (Long-Bract Bird's-Foot-Trefoil) · L. procumbens var. procumbens (Silky Deerweed) · L. purshianus var. Purshianus (Spanish Clover) · L. salsuginosus var. salsuginosus (Coastal Bird's-Foot Trefoil) · L. scoparius brevialatus var. brevialatus (California Broom) · L. scoparius scoparius var. scoparius (Common Deerweed) · L. stipularis var. stipularis (Balsam Bird's-Foot Trefoil) · L. strigosus var. strigosus (Strigose Bird's-Foot Trefoil) · L. subbiflorus (Hairy Bird's-Foot Trefoil) · L. tenuis (Narrowleaf Bird's-Foot Trefoil) · L. tetragonolobus (Asparagus Pea) · L. unifoliolatus var. helleri (Heller's Bird's-Foot Trefoil) · L. 'Gold Flash' (Lotus Vine)
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Further Reading
- Checklists for the CORINE Biotopes Programme and its application in the PHARE countries of Central and East Europe: including comparisons with relevant conventions and agreements on the conservation of European species and habitats EC url p. 115.
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.
- Marrero Gómez, M.V. & Mesa Coello, R. 2011. Lotus maculatus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 01February2012.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 06, 2007:
- GBIF-Spain, Aranzadi Zientzi Elkartea
- GBIF-Spain, CIBIO, Alicante:ABH-GBIF
- GBIF-Spain, Jardi Botanic de Valencia: VAL
- GBIF-Spain, Real Jardin Botanico
- , Vascular Plant Herbarium
- GBIF-Spain, Univ. Herbarium SALAMANCA: SALA
- GBIF-Spain, Universidad de Oviedo. Departamento de Biología de Organismos y Sistemas: FCO
- GBIF-Spain, Universidad del País Vasco/EHU, Bilbao: Herbario BIO
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3317682
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ILD-20365
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13631682
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:503744-1
- IUCN ID: 220484
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 420669
Footnotes
- "Lotus". in Flora of Pakistan Page 311. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
- Marrero Gómez, M.V. & Mesa Coello, R. 2011. Lotus maculatus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 01 February 2012. [back]
