Biology:Archidendron
Archidendron is a genus of flowering plants in the Mimosa subfamily (Mimosoideae) of the pea family, Fabaceae. It includes 98 species which range from India through Indochina, southern China, Taiwan, Malesia, and Papuasia to Queensland and New South Wales.[1][2]
Description
Plants in this genus are shrubs or small to medium-sized trees up to 30 metres (98 ft) tall;[3] they have bipinnate leaves, extrafloral nectaries, and without spines or thorns. Leaflets are usually arranged in opposite pairs. The genus is morphologically diverse in the characters of leaves, flowers and fruit. Inflorescence position may be Template:Botanygloss, Template:Botanygloss, ramiflorous or cauliflorous. The form may be a 'head' or capitulum, an umbel, a raceme or a panicle. Flowers may be bell-shaped or tubular, the calyx and the corolla tube both 5-lobed. There are numerous stamens and one to several carpels. The fruit is a pod which may be flat, cylindrical, or twisted.[4][5][6]
Species
(As of December 2024), Plants of the World Online accepts the following 98 species,[1] while another 20 species are yet to be formally described.[6]:300
Gallery
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A. muellerianum foliage -
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A. pauciflorum seeds -
A. lucyi seed pods -
A. bulbalinum trunk
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Archidendron F.Muell.". Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2024. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:21710-1.
- ↑ "Archidendron F.Muell.". 2024. https://www.gbif.org/species/2941201.
- ↑ Allen, O.N.; Allen, Ethel K. (1981). The Leguminosae - A Source Book of Characteristics, Uses and Nodulation. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press. p. 64. ISBN 978-0-274-72077-4. https://books.google.com/books?id=6gUXRNc6sDoC&q=Archidendron.
- ↑ Cowan, R.S. (2022). "Archidendron". Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water: Canberra. https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Archidendron.
- ↑ "Archidendron F.Muell.". Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.. http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=102468.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Brown, G.K.; Aju, J.; Bayly, M.J.; Murphy, D.J.; McLay, T.G.B. (2022). "Phylogeny and classification of the Australasian and Indomalayan mimosoid legumes Archidendron and Archidendropsis (Leguminosae, subfamily Caesalpinioideae, mimosoid clade)". PhytoKeys (205): 299–333. doi:10.3897/phytokeys.205.79381. PMID 36762019. Bibcode: 2022PhytK.205..299B.
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