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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]
Habitat
Ecology: Broadleaved evergreen forest .[1]
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
(
Similar Species
Members of the genus Maackia
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 18 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
M. amurensis · M. amurensis buergeri (Asiatic Yellowwood) · M. amurensis buergeri var. buergeri (Amur Maackia) · M. amurensis 'Starburst' (Asiatic Yellowwood) · M. amurensis var. amurensis · M. amurensis var. buergeri · M. australis · M. chekiangensis · M. chinensis · M. ellipticocarpa · M. fauriei · M. floribunda · M. honanensis · M. hupehensis · M. hwashanensis · M. taiwanensis · M. tashiroi · M. tenuifolia (Rabo-De-Guariba-Do-Boeiro)
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Further Reading
- Lu, S.Y. and Pan, F.J. 1996. Rare and Endangered Plants in Taiwan I.
- Pan, F.J. 1997. Completed data collection forms for Taiwanese trees.
Notes
Contributors
- Lu, S.Y. & Pan, F.J. 1998. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008.
- Lu, S.Y. & Pan, F.J. 1998. Maackia taiwanensis. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 20 October 2006.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 7147931
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15565929
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:931918-1
- IUCN ID: 37823
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1024769
Footnotes
- Lu, S.Y. & Pan, F.J. 1998. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008. [back]
