Pterocarpus

Pterocarpus indicus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Fabales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Cladus: Rosids Cladus: Eurosids I Ordo: Fabales

Familia: Fabaceae
Subfamilia: Faboideae
Tribus: Dalbergieae
Genus: Pterocarpus
Species: P. acapulcensis – P. albopubescens – P. amazonum – P. amphymenium – P. angolensis – P. antunesii – P. belizensis – P. brenanii – P. casteelsii – P. claessensii – P. dalbergioides – P. dubius – P. erinaceus – P. gilletii – P. hockii – P. homblei – P. indicus – P. lucens – P. macrocarpus – P. marsupium – P. megalocarpus – P. michelianus – P. mildbraedii – P. monophyllus – P. mutondo – P. officinalis – P. orbiculatus – P. osun – P. rohrii – P. rotundifolius – P. santalinoides – P. santalinus – P. soyauxii – P. steinbachianus – P. tessmannii – P. tinctorius – P. velutinus – P. vidalianus – P. villosus – P. zehntneri – P. zenkeri

Source(s) of checklist:
Govaerts, R. et al. 2020. Pterocarpus in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2020 Nov 12. Reference page.

Name

Pterocarpus Jacq., 1763

• Type species: Pterocarpus officinalis  Jacq.

Homonyms

• Pterocarpus L. = Pterocarpus Jacq.
• Pterocarpus P.J.Bergius = Dalbergia L.f.
• Pterocarpus Kuntze = Derris Lour.

Synonyms

• Amphymenium Kunth
• Ancylocalyx Tul.
• Echinodiscus Benth.
• Etaballia Benth.
• Griselinia Scop.
• Lingoum Adans.
• Malaparius Bosc
• Malaparius Rumph. ex Bosc
• Moutouchi Aubl.
• Nephraea Hassk.
• Nephrea Noronha
• Phellocarpus Benth.
• Pterocarpos St.-Lag.
• Pterocarpus L.
• Weinreichia Rchb.

Distribution

Native distribution areas:

Continental: Tropics & Subtropics Andaman Is., Angola, Argentina Northeast, Bangladesh, Belize, Benin, Bismarck Archipelago, Bolivia, Borneo, Botswana, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Burkina, Cabinda, Cambodia, Cameroon, Caprivi Strip, Caroline Is., Central African Repu, Chad, China South-Central, China Southeast, Colombia, Congo, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, French Guiana, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, India, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Jawa, KwaZulu-Natal, Laos, Leeward Is., Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Malawi, Malaya, Maldives, Mali, Maluku, Mauritania, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Guinea, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Santa Cruz Is., Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Is., Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Suriname, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Trinidad-Tobago, Uganda, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Windward Is., Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe Introduced into: Assam, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Seychelles References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Primary references

• Jacquin, N.J. 1763. Selectarum stirpium Americanarum historia, in qua ad Linnaeanum systema determinatae descriptaeque sistuntur plantae illae, quas in insulis Martinica, Jamaica, Domingo, aliisque, et in vicinae continentis parte, observavit rariores; adjectis iconibus in solo natali delineatis. XII + 284 pp., index, 184 tt. Ex officina Krausiana, Vindobonae [Vienna]. BHL Biblioteca Digital Reference page. : 283

Additional references

• Klitgård B.B., Forest F., Booth T.J. & Saslis-Lagoudakis C.H. 2013. A detailed investigation of the Pterocarpus clade (Leguminosae: Dalbergieae): Etaballia with radially symmetrical flowers is nested within the papilionoid-flowered Pterocarpus. South African Journal of Botany 89: 128–142. DOI: 10.1016/j.sajb.2013.07.006
• Sinjushin, A.A. 2019. Notes on floral symmetry in the Pterocarpus clade (Leguminosae: Papilionoideae: Dalbergieae). Wulfenia 26: 175-188. ResearchGate Reference page. 

Links

• Govaerts, R. et al. 2020. Pterocarpus in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2020 Nov 12. Reference page. 
• Hassler, M. 2022. Pterocarpus. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2022. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2022 May 22. Reference page.  differs in synonymy
• International Plant Names Index. 2020. Pterocarpus. Published online. Accessed: Nov 12 2020.
• Tropicos.org 2020. Pterocarpus. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: {{{3}}} Nov12 2020.

Vernacular names

suomi: Veripihkapuut

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