Leobordea adpressa | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Fabales |
Family: | Fabaceae |
Subfamily: | Faboideae |
Genus: | Leobordea |
Species: | L. adpressa |
Binomial name | |
Leobordea adpressa | |
Subspecies | |
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Synonyms | |
Lotononis adpressaN.E.Br. |
Leobordea adpressa is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. It is found in Lesotho and South Africa. Its natural habitat is temperate grassland. [1]
The Fabaceae or Leguminosae, commonly known as the legume, pea, or bean family, are a large and agriculturally important family of flowering plants. It includes trees, shrubs, and perennial or annual herbaceous plants, which are easily recognized by their fruit (legume) and their compound, stipulate leaves. The family is widely distributed, and is the third-largest land plant family in number of species, behind only the Orchidaceae and Asteraceae, with about 765 genera and nearly 20,000 known species.
The Faboideae are a subfamily of the flowering plant family Fabaceae or Leguminosae. An acceptable alternative name for the subfamily is Papilionoideae, or Papilionaceae when this group of plants is treated as a family.
Vachellia chiapensis is a species of leguminous tree in the family Fabaceae. It is found only in Mexico.
Mariosousa dolichostachya is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. It is found in Guatemala and Mexico. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Vachellia permixta, the hairy acacia, is a species of plant in the family Fabaceae. It is found in Botswana, the Northern Provinces of South Africa, and Zimbabwe.
Vachellia roigii is a species of plant in the family Fabaceae found only in Cuba. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Englerodendron obanense is a small tree in the family Fabaceae. It is endemic to Nigeria. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Canavalia molokaiensis, commonly known as the Molokaʻi Jack-bean or puakauhi, is a rare species flowering plant in the legume family, Fabaceae, that is endemic to the island of Molokaʻi in Hawaii. This and other Hawaiian Canavalia are known there as ʻāwikiwiki.
Canavalia pubescens, commonly known as ʻĀwikiwiki or Lavafield Jack-bean, is a species of flowering plant in the legume family, Fabaceae, that is endemic to Hawaii.
Leobordea mirabilis is a known species of legume in the family Fabaceae. It is endemic to Namibia. Its natural habitat is rocky areas.
Machaerium villosum, the jacarandá-do-cerrado, jacarandá-pardo, jacarandá-paulista, or jacarandá-pedra, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. It is found only in Brazil. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Melolobium subspicatum is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. It is found only in South Africa. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, and it is threatened by habitat loss.
Pericopsis elata is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is known by the common names African teak, afromosia, afrormosia, kokrodua and assamela.
Streblorrhiza was a monotypic genus of legumes in the family Fabaceae. Its only species was Streblorrhiza speciosa, a perennial shrub endemic to Phillip Island. It is now presumed extinct.
Begonia adpressa is a species of plant in the family Begoniaceae. It is endemic to Cameroon. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Crotalarieae is a tribe of flowering plants belonging to the family Fabaceae. It includes rooibos (Aspalathus linearis), harvested for sale as a tisane.
Leobordea platycarpa is a common annual plant in the drier parts of the African continent found in open ground, roadsides, cultivated ground and other disturbed places or in short grassland on sand.
Lysiloma latisiliquum, commonly known as false tamarind or wild tamarind, is a species of tree in the family Fabaceae, that is native to southern Florida in the United States, the Bahamas, Cuba, southern Mexico, and Belize. Its wood is sometimes traded as sabicu wood.
Euchlora hirsuta is a species of flowering plant in the legume family, Fabaceae. It is a tuberous geophyte endemic to the Cape Provinces of South Africa. It is the only species included in the genus Euchlora, which is part of tribe Crotalarieae.
Leobordea is a genus of legumes in the family Fabaceae and the tribe Crotalarieae. Members of this genus are found in the eastern parts of South Africa as well as tropical Africa and the Mediterranean countries. It was recently segregated from the genus Lotononis.