Biology:Pterocarpus dubius

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Pterocarpus dubius
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Tribe: Dalbergieae
Genus: Pterocarpus
Species:
P. dubius
Binomial name
Pterocarpus dubius
(Kunth) Spreng. (1827)
Synonyms[2]
  • Ecastaphyllum dubium Kunth (1824)
  • Etaballia dubia (Kunth) Rudd in Phytologia 20: 427 (1970)
  • Etaballia guianensis Benth. (1840)

Pterocarpus dubius is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae native to Venezuela, Guyana, and northern Brazil in northern South America.[2]

Pterocarpus dubius is a tree which grows up to 30 meters tall. It grows in semi-deciduous and evergreen lowland tropical forests.[1]

It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae.[3][4] It was formerly classed as the sole species in genus Etaballia.[5][6]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Groom, A. (2012). "Etaballia dubia". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2012: e.T19891877A20073250. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012.RLTS.T19891877A20073250.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/19891877/20073250. Retrieved 1 August 2023. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Pterocarpus dubius (Kunth) Spreng. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 1 August 2023.
  3. "The dalbergioid legumes (Fabaceae): delimitation of a pantropical monophyletic clade". Am J Bot 88 (3): 503–33. 2001. doi:10.2307/2657116. PMID 11250829. 
  4. "Reconstructing the deep-branching relationships of the papilionoid legumes". S Afr J Bot 89: 58–75. 2013. doi:10.1016/j.sajb.2013.05.001. 
  5. "ILDIS LegumeWeb entry for Etaballia". Cardiff School of Computer Science & Informatics. http://www.ildis.org/LegumeWeb?version~10.01&genus~Etaballia&species~. Retrieved 10 February 2014. 
  6. USDA; ARS. "GRIN species records of Etaballia". National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?4470. Retrieved 10 February 2014. 

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