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Parkia
Parkia platycephala
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Caesalpinioideae
Clade: Mimosoid clade
Genus: Parkia
R.Br. [1]
Species

See text.

Synonyms [1]
  • Paryphosphaera H. Karst.
Parkia biglandulosa inflorescence, taken at AC&RI, Killikulam, India
Parkia multijuga - MHNT
Parkia pendula - MHNT

Parkia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It belongs to the mimosoid clade of the subfamily Caesalpinioideae. [2] Several species are known as African locust bean.

In 1995, about 31 species were known. [3] Four more species were outlined in 2009. [4]

Parkia species are found throughout the tropics, with four species in Africa, about ten in Asia, and about 20 in the neotropics. The neotropical species were revised in 1986. [5]

Species

As of 2020, Plants of the World Online (POWO) recognised the following species: [6]

References

  1. ^ a b "genus Parkia". Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN) online database. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
  2. ^ The Legume Phylogeny Working Group (LPWG). (2017). "A new subfamily classification of the Leguminosae based on a taxonomically comprehensive phylogeny". Taxon. 66 (1): 44–77. doi: 10.12705/661.3. hdl: 10568/90658.
  3. ^ Melissa Luckow and Helen C.F. Hopkins. 1995. "A cladistic analysis of Parkia". American Journal of Botany 82(10):1300-1320.
  4. ^ David A. Neill. 2009. "Parkia nana (Leguminosae, Mimosoideae), a New Species from the Sub-Andean Sandstone Cordilleras of Peru". Novon 19(2):204-208. doi: 10.3417/2007152
  5. ^ Helen C.F. Hopkins and Marlene Freitas Da Silva. 1986. "Parkia (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae) (Flora Neotropica Monograph No. 43) with Dimorphandra (Caesalpiniaceae) (FN Monograph No. 44)". In: Flora Neotropica (series). The New York Botanical Garden Press.
  6. ^ "Parkia". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 27 March 2020.

Media related to Parkia at Wikimedia Commons


From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Parkia
Parkia platycephala
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Caesalpinioideae
Clade: Mimosoid clade
Genus: Parkia
R.Br. [1]
Species

See text.

Synonyms [1]
  • Paryphosphaera H. Karst.
Parkia biglandulosa inflorescence, taken at AC&RI, Killikulam, India
Parkia multijuga - MHNT
Parkia pendula - MHNT

Parkia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It belongs to the mimosoid clade of the subfamily Caesalpinioideae. [2] Several species are known as African locust bean.

In 1995, about 31 species were known. [3] Four more species were outlined in 2009. [4]

Parkia species are found throughout the tropics, with four species in Africa, about ten in Asia, and about 20 in the neotropics. The neotropical species were revised in 1986. [5]

Species

As of 2020, Plants of the World Online (POWO) recognised the following species: [6]

References

  1. ^ a b "genus Parkia". Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN) online database. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
  2. ^ The Legume Phylogeny Working Group (LPWG). (2017). "A new subfamily classification of the Leguminosae based on a taxonomically comprehensive phylogeny". Taxon. 66 (1): 44–77. doi: 10.12705/661.3. hdl: 10568/90658.
  3. ^ Melissa Luckow and Helen C.F. Hopkins. 1995. "A cladistic analysis of Parkia". American Journal of Botany 82(10):1300-1320.
  4. ^ David A. Neill. 2009. "Parkia nana (Leguminosae, Mimosoideae), a New Species from the Sub-Andean Sandstone Cordilleras of Peru". Novon 19(2):204-208. doi: 10.3417/2007152
  5. ^ Helen C.F. Hopkins and Marlene Freitas Da Silva. 1986. "Parkia (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae) (Flora Neotropica Monograph No. 43) with Dimorphandra (Caesalpiniaceae) (FN Monograph No. 44)". In: Flora Neotropica (series). The New York Botanical Garden Press.
  6. ^ "Parkia". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 27 March 2020.

Media related to Parkia at Wikimedia Commons



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