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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: Shrub , Tree • Climbing: Not Climbing
Habitat
Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 1,225 meters (0 to 4,019 feet).[1]
Ecology: The species occurs in lowland rainforest.[2]
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
- Lennea rubioides Seem.
Notes
Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: –
Similar Species
Members of the genus Lennea
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 9 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
L. brunnescens · L. melanocarpa · L. modesta · L. robinioides · L. rubioides · L. salvadorensis · L. viridiflora · L. viridiflora var. novogaliciensis · L. viridiflora var. viridiflora
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Further Reading
- D'Arcy, W.G. 1987. Flora of Panama: checklist and index. Monographs in Systematic Botany 17: 1-1000.
- D’Arcy, W.G. 1987. Flora of Panama: checklist and index. Monographs in Systematic Botany 17: 1-1000.
- Lavin, M. and Sousa, M. 1995. Phylogenetic systematics and biogeography of the tribe Robinieae (Leguminosae). Systematic Botany Monographs 45:1-165.
- Lista de las plantas encontradas hasta ahora en Costa Rica y en los territorios limítrofes: extractada de la "Biologia centrali-americana." [San José: Tip. Nacional, 1888] SPA url p. 22.
- Mitre, M.E. 1997. Completed data collection forms for trees of Panama.
- The Nature Conservancy. 1996. Natural Heritage Central Database. (Status and distribution data on Latin American plants, developed in collaboration with Latin American Conservation Data Centers and Missouri Botanical Garden).
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.
- Mitré, M. 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:
- Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad
- , Biodiversidad de Costa Rica
- Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2838557
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ILD-13604
- IUCN ID: 32660
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 402082
Footnotes
- Mean = 216.270 meters (709.547 feet), Standard Deviation = 298.080 based on 45 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
- Mitré, M. 1998. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008. [back]
