Overview
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Description
Physical Description
Habit: Tree • Climbing: Not Climbing
Habitat
Ecology: It occurs in submontane and montane forest , meadows and open hillsides. Trees sometimes survive forest clearing.[1]
Biology
Reproduction
Duration: Perennial
Taxonomy
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
)
- Plants
- Phylum:
Magnoliophyta
()
- Flowering Plants
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
()
- Dicotyledons
- Order:
Fabales
()
- Family:
Curculionoidea
()
- Genus:
Abarema
()
- Specific epithet:
killipii
- (Britton & Killip)Barneby & J.W.Grimes
- Botanical name: - Abarema killipii (Britton & Killip)Barneby & J.W.Grimes
- Specific epithet:
killipii
- (Britton & Killip)Barneby & J.W.Grimes
- Genus:
Abarema
(
- Family:
Curculionoidea
(
- Order:
Fabales
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Phylum:
Magnoliophyta
(
Unambiguous Synonyms
- Pithecolobium killipii (Britton & Killip)c. Barbosa
- Punjuba killipii Britton & Rose
Notes
Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: Barneby R.C., Grimes J.W. (Monograph 1996/97), May-2001
Similar Species
Members of the genus Abarema
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 93 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
A. abbottii · A. acreana (Zopilocuavo) · A. adenophora · A. adenophorum · A. agropecuaria · A. alexandri (Tamarind Shadbark) · A. alexandri var. alexandri · A. alexandri var. troyana · A. angulata · A. asplenifolia · A. aspleniifolia · A. auriculata (Pashaquilla) · A. barbouriana · A. barbouriana var. arenaria · A. barbouriana var. barbouriana · A. bigemina · A. borneensis · A. brachystachya · A. callejasii · A. campestris · A. centiflora · A. clypearia · A. cochleata · A. cochleata var. cochleata (Inga De Lagarta) · A. cochleata var. moniliformis · A. cochliacarpos · A. cochliocarpos · A. commutata (Ercey-Euru-Yek) · A. cordifolia · A. curvicarpa · A. curvicarpa var. curvicarpa · A. curvicarpa var. rodriguesii · A. cyclosperma · A. dypearia · A. ferruginea · A. filamentosa · A. floribunda · A. gallorum · A. ganymedea · A. glauca · A. globosa · A. glomeriflora · A. grandiflora · A. idiopoda · A. josephi · A. josephii · A. jupunba · A. jupunba (Willd.) Britton & Killip var. trapezifolia (Vahl) Barneby & J.W.Grime · A. jupunba var. jupunba · A. jupunba var. trapezifolia · A. killipii · A. kinabaluensis · A. laeta · A. langsdorffii · A. langsdorfii · A. lehmanii · A. lehmannii · A. leucophylla · A. leucophylla var. leucophylla · A. leucophylla var. vaupesensis · A. levelii · A. longipedunculata · A. lovellae · A. macradenia · A. maestrensis · A. mataybifolia · A. microcaly · A. microcalyx · A. microcalyx var. enterolobioides · A. microcalyx var. microcalyx · A. microcalyx var. parauaquarae · A. microcarpa · A. muellerana · A. nipensis · A. obovalis · A. obovata · A. oppositifolia · A. oxyphillidia · A. oxyphyllidia · A. piresii · A. pruinosa · A. quocensis · A. racemiflora · A. racmosa · A. ricoae · A. robinsonii · A. sapindoides · A. scutifera · A. trichophylla · A. turbinata · A. villifera · A. yunnanensis · A. zollerana
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Further Reading
- Barneby, R.C. and Grimes, J.W. 1996. Silk Tree, Guanacaste, Monkey's Earring. The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, New York.
Notes
Contributors
- Bisby FA, Roskov YR, Orrell TM, Nicolson D, Paglinawan LE, Bailly N, Kirk PM, Bourgoin T, van Hertum J, eds (2008). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2008 Annual Checklist Taxonomic Classification. CD-ROM; Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed January 28, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 2 providers.
- ILDIS
- World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal January 28, 2008:
- Herbarium of the University of Aarhus, The AAU Herbarium Database
- Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3317392
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ILD-17049
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:989377-1
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 1096490-
- IUCN ID: 36555
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 405085
Footnotes
- World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008. [back]
