Biology:Eriosema

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Short description: Genus of legumes

Eriosema
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Eriosema campestre, Brazil
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Tribe: Phaseoleae
Subtribe: Cajaninae
Genus: Eriosema
(DC.) Desv.
Type species
Eriosema rufum
(Kunth) G.Don
Species

See text.

Synonyms
  • Eriosema G.Don
  • Euriosma Desv.
  • Pyrrhotrichia Wight & Arn.
  • Rhynchosia sect. Eriosema DC.

Eriosema is a genus of legume in the family Fabaceae. Accepted species number over 150.[1] The genus is widespread in tropics.

Description

Species of Eriosema are mostly herbs or shrublets. Leaves are pinnately 3-foliolate, rarely reduced to a single leaflet. Inflorescences are 1–2-flowered or pedunculate racemes in the leaf axils, yellow to orange, calyx is campanulate, consists of five similar lobes. Pods are short and flattened with two seeds.[2][3]

Selected species

  • Eriosema campestre Benth. — Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil
  • Eriosema chinense Vogel — South-East Asia, East Himalaya, India, New Guinea, Australia
  • Eriosema defoliatum Benth. — Brazil
  • Eriosema glabrum Mart. ex Benth. — Argentina, Brazil
  • Eriosema glaziovii Harms — Brazil
  • Eriosema harmsianum Dinter — Namibia
  • Eriosema kraussianum Meisn. — South Africa
  • Eriosema longifolium Benth. — Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Paraguay
  • Eriosema salignum E.Mey. — South Africa
  • Eriosema stenophyllum Harms — Brazil

Uses

Root tubers of Eriosema species have been traditional food for Aborigines of the Northern Territory.[4]

References

  1. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Published on the Internet; http://www.theplantlist.org/ (accessed 2014/08/27)
  2. Manning, John C.. (2013). Field guide to wild flowers of South Africa. Cape Town: Random House Struik. p. 288. ISBN 9781920544874. 
  3. "Flora of China, Vol. 10". http://www.efloras.org. 
  4. NTFlora Northern Territory Flora online: Flora of the Darwin Region: Fabaceae. Retrieved 10 June 2018

Wikidata ☰ Q3310286 entry