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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]
Physical Description
Habit: Tree • Climbing: Not Climbing
Habitat
Ecology: A small tree found in hill forests between 150 and 300 m. [1]
Biology
Reproduction
Duration: Perennial
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Magnoliophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 Ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Flowering Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
()
- Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Dicotyledons
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Magnoliophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Unambiguous Synonyms
- Millettia cauliflora Prain
Notes
Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: –
Similar Species
Members of the genus Fordia
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 21 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
F. africana · F. albiflora · F. brachybotrys · F. bracteolata · F. cauliflora · F. coriacea · F. filipes · F. fruticosa · F. incredibilis · F. johorensis · F. lanceolata · F. microphylla · F. ngii · F. nivea · F. ophirensis · F. pauciflora · F. rheophytica · F. splendidissima · F. splendidissima splendidissima · F. stipularis · F. unifoliata
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Further Reading
- Chua, L. et al. 1997. Completed data collection forms for endemic trees of Peninsular Malaysia.
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.
- Chua, L.S.L. 1998. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008.
- ILDIS
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3769774
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ILD-22631
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:495340-1
- IUCN ID: 31548
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 423086
Footnotes
- Chua, L.S.L. 1998. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008. [back]
