Dalbergia brachystachya

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Overview

Endangered

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]

Subfamily Faboideae

Mostly herbs, shrubs , or trees . Leaves pinnate or palmate to trifoliolate or apparently simple . Corolla usually, showy, zygomorphic, the petals imbricate, posterior (upper or banner ) petal outermost in bud. Stamens 10 or 9 + 1 (diadelphous ), not showy. Pollen released in monads . Seeds with u-shaped line (pleurogram) lacking. [Carr]

Genus Dalbergia

Trees and shrubs . Leaves imparipinnate rarely unifoliolate , lateral leaflets alternate, exstipellate. Inflorescence a terminal or axillary cyme or panicle. Bract and bracteoles small. Calyx campanulate , teeth unequal. Vexillum ovate or orbicular . Keel petals united at the tip . Stamens 9 or 10, monadelphous or diadelphous . Ovary stipitate , ovules 1 to few, style incurved , glabrous , stigma capitate. Fruit samaroid , indehiscent, not winged , 1-4-seeded. Seed reniform , compressed .

A genus with about 300 species, mainly distributed in tropics and subtropics.[1]

Physical Description

Habitat

Ecology: This species occurs in evergreen , humid forest between 1,000 and 1,500 m. [2]

Biology

Reproduction

Duration: Perennial

Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: –.

Similar Species

Members of the genus Dalbergia

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 485 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

D. abbreviata · D. abrahamii (Rosewood) · D. acaciaefolia · D. acariaeantha · D. acariiantha · D. acuminata · D. acuta · D. acutifoliolata · D. adami · D. adamii · D. afzeliana · D. afzelii · D. ajudana · D. alata · D. albertisii · D. albiflora · D. albiflora albiflora · D. albiflora echinocarpa · D. altissima · D. amazonica · D. ambongoensis · D. amerimnum · D. andapensis · D. annamensis · D. arbutifolia · D. arbutifolia aberrans · D. arbutifolia arbutifolia · D. armata · D. assamica · D. aurea · D. bakeri · D. balansae · D. barclayi · D. bariensis (Burmese Rosewood) · D. baroni · D. baronii (Palissandre Rouge Des Marais) · D. bathiei · D. beccarii · D. beddomei · D. benthamii · D. berteroi · D. bignonae · D. bintuluensis · D. blumei · D. boehmii · D. boehmii boehmii · D. boehmii stuhlmannii · D. boinensis · D. bojeri · D. boniana · D. borneensis · D. brachystachya · D. bracteata · D. bracteolata · D. brasiliensis (Caroba-Brava) · D. brevicaudata · D. brownei (Brown´s Indian Rosewood) · D. brownii · D. burmanica · D. calderonii · D. calderonii var. calderonii · D. calderonii var. molinae · D. calycina (Granadillo) · D. cambodiana · D. campechiana · D. campenonii · D. cana · D. candenatensis (Dalbergia) · D. canescens · D. capuronii · D. carringtoniana · D. catingicola (Jacarand) · D. catipenonii · D. caudata · D. cearensis (Jacarand -Cega-Machado) · D. championii · D. chapelieri · D. chlorocarpa · D. chontalensis · D. cibix · D. clarkei · D. cloiselii · D. cochinchinenis · D. cochinchinensis (Thailand Rosewood) · D. commiphoroides · D. confertiflora · D. confertiflora var. confertiflora · D. confertiflora var. listeri · D. congensis · D. congesta · D. congestiflora · D. coromandeliana · D. crispa · D. cubilquitzensis (Granadillo) · D. cucullata · D. cuiabensis · D. cultrata (Burma Blackwood) · D. cultrata var. cultrata (Burma Blackwood) · D. cultrata var. maymyensis · D. cultrata var. pallida

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Further Reading

• Du Puy, D. 1997. Completed data collection forms on Madagascan Dalbergia species.

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.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. [http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/Taxonomicon/]. Access date: Nov 23, 2005
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed April 21, 2007.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2007. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed September 17, 2007.
• Du Puy, D. 1998. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed January 27, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 2 providers.
• ILDIS World Database of LegumesNov 10, 2005.
• Ohashi H & Tateishi Y, 1996 (from ILDIS).
• Pasquet RS, 2001-06 (from ILDIS).
• Rico ML, 1994 (from ILDIS).
• Schrire BD, 1994-10 (from ILDIS).
• The International Plant Names Index. Accessed Jan 19, 2007.

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3768102
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ILD-20800
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:993159-1
• IUCN ID: 38168
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 421136

Footnotes

1. "Dalbergia". in Flora of Pakistan Page 56.. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
2. Du Puy, D. 1998. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008. [back]

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