View source for Lysiloma ← Lysiloma You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reason: The action you have requested is limited to users in the group: Users. You can view and copy the source of this page. {{Treatment/ID |accepted_name=Lysiloma |accepted_authority=Bentham |publications={{Treatment/Publication |title=London J. Bot. |place=3: 82. 1844 |year=1844 }} |basionyms= |synonyms= |hierarchy=Fabaceae;Fabaceae subfam. Caesalpinioideaemimosoidclade;Lysiloma |hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Fabaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Fabaceae subfam. Caesalpinioideaemimosoidclade]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Lysiloma]]</div></div> |etymology=Greek lysis, loosening, separation, and loma, border, margin, alluding to separation of continuous, thickened margins from legume valves as they disintegrate |volume=Volume 11 |mention_page= |treatment_page= }}<!-- --><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Trees </b>or shrubs, unarmed. <b>Stems</b> erect to ascending; bark smooth to furrowed, scaly, or flaking on older branches or trunk; branchlets glabrous or pubescent. <b>Leaves</b> alternate, even-bipinnate; stipules present; petiolate, petiole terete, rachis and rachilla terete-trigonous, pulvinate; nectaries present; pinnae [1 or]2–10[–50] pairs, opposite; leaflets 6–56, opposite, blade margins entire, surfaces pilose, glabrescent, or glabrous. <b>Peduncles</b> 2–7, from leaf axils or in relatively small, axillary racemes. <b>Inflorescences</b> 28–70-flowered, axillary, spikes or racemes, solitary or fasciculate; bracts present or absent; bracteoles present. <b>Flowers</b> mimosoid, actinomorphic, buds green-canescent; calyx campanulate or campanulate-tubular, lobes 5, synsepalous, valvate in bud; corolla sympetalous, red, white, greenish white, or yellowish green, valvate in bud; stamens 14–36, exserted, monadelphous, connate basally into slender tube; filaments conspicuous, filiform, white to greenish or yellowish white; anthers versatile, oblong, eglandular; ovary superior, free, glabrous; style subulate-filiform; stigma terminal, concave, glabrous. <b>Fruits</b> legumes, stipitate, laterally compressed, straight, broadly to narrowly oblong, dehiscent or indehiscent or craspedial, glabrous, strongly compressed over seeds, not septate between seeds; sutures prominent, exocarp dark purple to ripe-nigrescent, exfoliating, endocarp pale stramineous, papery to leathery, not exfoliating, not fleshy or pulpy, margins wiry. <b>Seeds</b> 7–15, compressed, oval or oblong to ellipsoid, smooth, hard, opaque; pleurogram distinct; endosperm absent. <b>x</b> = 13.</span><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |distribution=s United States;Mexico;West Indies;Central America. |discussion=<p>Species 9 (3 in the flora).</p><!-- --><p>Legumes in Lysiloma are either dehiscent (readily dehiscent at maturity, with undivided margins separating from the valves, and seeds that are released through dehiscence of the valve sutures) or indehiscent (indehiscent at maturity, with valves tardily separating from the persistent margins, and seeds that are released through decay of the valves on the ground).</p> |tables= |references= }}<!-- --><div class="treatment-key"> ==Key== <div class="treatment-key-group"> {| class="wikitable fna-keytable" |-id=key-0-1 |1 |Legumes dehiscent, stipes 0.3–1.3 cm; Arizona. |[[Lysiloma watsonii|Lysiloma watsonii]] |-id=key-0-1 |1 |Legumes indehiscent, stipes 0.8–3.8 cm; Florida. |[[#key-0-2| > 2]] |-id=key-0-2 |2 |Leaflets 6–12, blades elliptic to obovate, apex obtuse to retuse, 12–35 × 7–23 mm, venation palmate-pinnate; pinnae 6–10; stipule base cuneate-flabellate; peduncles ebracteate; pedicels present; legume apex rounded to emarginate; pleurogram elliptic. |[[Lysiloma sabicu|Lysiloma sabicu]] |-id=key-0-2 |2 |Leaflets 30–56, blades oblong, apex acute to narrowly obtuse, 8–15 × 3–6 mm, venation pinnate; pinnae 4–12; stipule base auriculate-semicordate; peduncles bracteate; pedicels absent; legume apex acuminate; pleurogram U-shaped. |[[Lysiloma latisiliquum|Lysiloma latisiliquum]] |} </div></div><!-- -->{{#Taxon: name=Lysiloma |author=Ralph L. Thompson |authority=Bentham |rank=genus |parent rank=subfamily |synonyms= |basionyms= |family=Fabaceae |distribution=s United States;Mexico;West Indies;Central America. |reference=None |publication title=London J. Bot. |publication year=1844 |special status= |source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/master/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V11/V11_276.xml |subfamily=Fabaceae subfam. Caesalpinioideaemimosoidclade |genus=Lysiloma }}<!-- -->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Fabaceae subfam. Caesalpinioideaemimosoidclade]] Templates used on this page: Template:Fabaceae (view source) Template:Treatment/AuthorLink (view source) Template:Treatment/Body (view source) Template:Treatment/Body/Maps (view source) Template:Treatment/ID (view source) Template:Treatment/Publication (view source) Return to Lysiloma.