Crudia curtisii

• Description
• Taxonomy
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• Further Reading
• Notes

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]

Taxonomy

Unambiguous Synonyms

1. Crudia glauca Prain

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: –

Similar Species

Members of the genus Crudia

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 67 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

C. acuminata · C. acuta · C. acuta de · C. aequalis · C. amazonica (Orelha-De-Cachorro) · C. antillana · C. aromatica · C. balachandrae · C. bantamensis · C. beccarii · C. bibundina · C. blancoi · C. bracteata · C. brevipes · C. caudata · C. cauliflora · C. choussyana · C. chrysantha · C. curtisii · C. cynometroides · C. dewitii · C. evansii · C. gabonensis · C. glaberrima · C. glauca · C. gossweileri · C. gracilis · C. harmsiana · C. hirtelloides · C. humboldtiana · C. katikii · C. klainei · C. lacus · C. lanceolata · C. laurentii · C. ledermannii · C. mansonii · C. michelsonii · C. monophylla · C. muabilis de · C. mutabilis · C. obliqua · C. oblonga · C. orientalis · C. ornata · C. papuana · C. parivoa · C. penduliflora · C. reticulata · C. ripicola · C. scortechinii · C. senegalensis · C. sparei · C. speciosa · C. spicata · C. splendens · C. subsimplicifolia · C. tenuipes · C. teysmannii · C. tomentosa · C. velutina · C. venenosa · C. viridiflora · C. vouarana · C. wrayi · C. zenkeri · C. zeylanica

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Further Reading

• Chua, L. et al. 1997. Completed data collection forms for endemic trees of Peninsular Malaysia.
• Ng, F.S.P., Low, C.M. and Sanah, M.A.N. 1990. Endemic trees of the Malay Peninsula. Forestry Department, Kuala Lumpur.

Notes

Contributors

• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Chua, L.S.L. 1998. Crudia glauca. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 20 October 2006.
• ILDIS World Database of LegumesNov 10, 2005.

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3772685
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ILD-24682
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13628135
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:489111-1
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1476772

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