Overview
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Common Names
Common Names in English:
Cream Tick Trefoil, Cream Ticktrefoil, Creamflower Tick-Trefoil
Description
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 Desmodium
Herbs, undershrubs or shrubs
, prostrate
to erect
. Leaf 1-5-foliolate, leaflets
petiolulate
, stipels
1 in lateral
and 2 in terminal
leaflet; stipules free
or united
, striate
and ciliate
. Inflorescence terminal or axillary
, raceme
or panicle or subumbellate. Bract striate and pubescent
. Calyx 2-lipped, the upper lobe
bifid, the lower 3 toothed
or the calyx equally 5-lobed. Corolla exceeding the calyx. Stamens monadelphous
or diadelphous
, 9+1, anthers
uniform
. Ovary sessile or stipitate
, ovules 2 to many. Fruit sessile or stipitate, transversely jointed
, articles variously shaped, glabrous
to densely pubescent, hairs
straight or hooked
.
A genus with about 300-350 species distributed in tropical
and temperate
areas of the world except Europe, New Zealand.[1]
Physical Description
Habit: Forb/herb
Flowers: Bloom Period: July, August, September. • Flower Color: cream, tan
Habitat
Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 422 meters (0 to 1,385 feet).[2]
Biology
Reproduction
Duration: Perennial
Growth
Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Light Shade.
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Magnoliophyta
()
- Cronquist, Takhtajan & W. Zimmermann, 1966
- Flowering Plants
- Subphylum:
Spermatophytina
()
- (Auct.) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Infraphylum:
Angiospermae
()
- Auct.
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Dicotyledons
- Subclass:
Rosidae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Fabanae
()
- R. Dahlgren Ex Reveal, 1993
- Order:
Fabales
()
- Family:
Papilionaceae
()
- Subfamily:
Faboideae
()
- Tribe:
Desmodieae
()
- Genus:
Desmodium
()
- Desv. in J. Bot. 1:122.t. 5. 1813.
- Ticktrefoil
- Specific epithet:
ochroleucum
- Canby
- Botanical name: - Desmodium ochroleucum
- Specific epithet:
ochroleucum
- Canby
- Genus:
Desmodium
(
- Tribe:
Desmodieae
(
- Subfamily:
Faboideae
(
- Family:
Papilionaceae
(
- Order:
Fabales
(
- Superorder:
Fabanae
(
- Subclass:
Rosidae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Angiospermae
(
- Subphylum:
Spermatophytina
(
- Phylum:
Magnoliophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Unambiguous Synonyms
- Meibomia nuttallii Schindl.
Notes
Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: –
Similar Species
Members of the genus Desmodium
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 612 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:
D. abyssinicum · D. acanthocladum · D. acrocarpum · D. acuminatum · D. adescendens · D. adscedens · D. adscendens (Zarzabacoa Galana) · D. adscendens var. orinocense · D. affine (Tick Trefoil) · D. akoense · D. alamanii · D. alatum · D. albiflorum · D. alysicarpoides · D. amans · D. ambiguum · D. amethystinum · D. amplifolium · D. ancistrocarpum · D. angustatum · D. angustifolium (Narrow-Leaf Tick-Trefoil) · D. angustifolium var. angustifolium · D. angustifolium var. gramineum · D. annuum · D. aparines · D. appressipilum · D. arbuscula · D. arechavaletae · D. arenarium · D. arenicola · D. argenteum · D. arinense · D. arizonicum (Arizona Tick Trefoil) · D. asperum · D. auricomum · D. auriculatum · D. australe · D. axilare · D. axillare (Zarzabacoa De Monte) · D. axillare acutifolium · D. axillare angustatum · D. axillare genuinum · D. axillare obtusifoliola · D. axillare sintenisii · D. axillare var. acutifolium (Zarzabacoa De Monte) · D. axillare var. axillare (Zarzabacoa De Monte) · D. axillare var. stoloniferum (Zarzabacoa De Monte) · D. baccatum · D. bambusetorum · D. barbatum (Zarzabacoa Peluda) · D. barbatum saulierei · D. barbatum subsp. saulierei · D. barbatum var. barbatum · D. barbatum var. dimorphum · D. barbatum var. procumbens · D. barbatum var. venustulum · D. barbigerum · D. barclayi · D. batocaulon (San Pedro Tick Trefoil) · D. bellum · D. benthamii · D. biarticulatum · D. bicolor · D. biflorum · D. bigelovii · D. bioculatum · D. bolsteri · D. boottii · D. brachypodum · D. brachystachyum · D. bracteatum · D. bracteosum · D. brevipes · D. bridgesii · D. brownii · D. buergeri · D. bullamense · D. caespitosum · D. caffrum · D. cajanifolium (Tropical Tick Trefoil) · D. callianthum · D. callilepis · D. campestre · D. campylocaulon · D. campyloclados · D. canadense (Canadian Tick-Trefoil) · D. canadense var. hirsutum · D. canadense var. longifolium · D. canaliculatum · D. canescens (Hoary Tick-Trefoil) · D. canescens var. hirsutum · D. canescens var. villosissimum · D. canum · D. capitatum · D. caripense · D. caudatum · D. cephalotes · D. cephalotoides · D. chamissonis · D. chartaceum
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Further Reading
- Flora of Delaware and the Eastern Shore: an annotated list of the ferns and flowering plants of the peninsula of Delaware, Maryland and Virginia. [Wilmington]: Society of Natural History of Delaware, 1946. ENG url p. 153.
- Flora of West Virginia, by Charles Frederick Millspaugh and Lawrence William Nuttall. Chicago, 1896. ENG url p. 213.
- Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. [Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia] ENG url p. 17.
- Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. [Washington, Biological Society of Washington] ENG url p. 84.
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2007. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed September 17, 2007.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed January 27, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal January 28, 2008:
- USDA PLANTS, USDA PLANTS Database
- University of Alabama Biodiversity and Systematics, Herbarium
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3874237
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ILD-11175
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 25814
- Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: PDFAB1D100
- U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: MEOC
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 33544
Footnotes
- "Desmodium". in Flora of Pakistan Page 346. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
- Mean = 103.840 meters (340.682 feet), Standard Deviation = 92.820 based on 38 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
