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Lupinus constancei

(Lassicus Lupine)

Overview

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Critically Endangered
Threat status

Common Names

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Common Names in English:

Lassics Lupine, Lassicus Lupine

Description

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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 Lupinus

Herbs or shrubs . Leaf generally palmately multifoliolate; stipules adnate .. Inflorescence a terminal raceme . Bract caducous , bracteoles mostly persistent . Calyx 2-lipped. Vexillum orbicular or broadly ovate . Wing petals connate at the apex. Keel beaked . Stamens monadelphous , anthers alternately long and short. Ovary sessile, 2-many ovuled, style incurved , glabrous or with a ring of hairs beneath the terminal stigma. Fruit compressed , 2-valved, often constricted between the seeds. Seed estrophiolate.

About 200 species; most numerous in Western North and South America, with a second centre round the Mediterranean.[1]

Physical Description

Habit: Forb/herb

Biology

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Reproduction

Duration: Perennial

Taxonomy

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Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: –

Similar Species

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Members of the genus Lupinus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 1581 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

L. aberrans · L. abiesicola · L. abortivus · L. abortivus abortivus · L. abramsii (Abrams' Lupine) · L. acclivatatis · L. acopalcus · L. acutilobus · L. adscendens · L. adsurgens (Drew's Silky Lupine) · L. adsurgens var. adsurgens (Drew's Silky Lupine) · L. adsurgens var. lilacinus (Drew's Silky Lupine) · L. adsurgens var. undulatus (Drew's Silky Lupine) · L. aduncus · L. aegra-ovium · L. affinis (Fleshy Lupine) · L. africanus · L. 'African Sunset' · L. agardhianus (Bajada Lupine) · L. 'Alan Titchmarsh' · L. alaristatus · L. albert-smithianus · L. albescens · L. albicaulis (Sickle-Keeled Lupine) · L. albicaulis var. albicaulis (Sickle-Keel Lupine) · L. albicaulis var. elatus · L. albicaulis var. hyacinthinus · L. albicaulis var. proximus · L. albicaulis var. shastensis (Shasta Lupine) · L. albicaulis var. sylvestris · L. albifrons (Bentham's Bush Lupine) · L. albifrons collinus (Foothill Lupine) · L. albifrons eminens · L. albifrons eminens var. eminens (Foothill Lupine) · L. albifrons medius · L. albifrons var. albifrons (Silver Bush Lupine) · L. albifrons var. argophyllus · L. albifrons var. collinus · L. albifrons var. douglasii (Douglas' Silver Lupine) · L. albifrons var. eminens (Silver Lupine) · L. albifrons var. emineus · L. albifrons var. flumineus (Silver Lupine) · L. albifrons var. hallii · L. albifrons var. medius · L. albinus · L. albipilosus · L. albosericeus · L. albus · L. albus albus (Mediterranean White Lupin) · L. albus albus var. albus · L. albus 'Arthur' · L. albus 'Blanca' · L. albus 'Dieta' · L. albus graecus · L. albus 'Lucille' · L. albus 'Lucyanne' · L. albus 'Ludet' · L. albus 'Lunivers' · L. albus var. graecus · L. alcis-montis · L. alcis-temporis · L. alcis-temporis alcis-temporis · L. alexanderae · L. aliamandus · L. aliattenuatus · L. alibicolor · L. aliceae · L. aliclementinus · L. alilatissimus · L. alimanens · L. alipatulus · L. alirevolutus · L. aliumbellatus · L. allargyreius · L. alopecuroides · L. alpestris (Great Basin Lupine) · L. alpicola · L. alpinus · L. alsophilus · L. altimontanus · L. altiplani · L. amabayensis · L. amabilis · L. amandus · L. ambaticus · L. 'Amber Glow' · L. amboensis · L. ammophilus (Sand Lupine) · L. ammophilus var. ammophilus · L. amniculi-cervi · L. amniculi-salicis · L. amnis-otuni · L. ampaiensis · L. amphibius (Amphibious Lupine) · L. amplus · L. ananeanus · L. anatolicus · L. andersoni · L. andersonii (Anderson's Lupine) · L. andersonni

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Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal January 28, 2008:

Identifiers

Footnotes

  1. "Lupinus". in Flora of Pakistan Page 33.. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
Last Revised: 7/1/2009