Orbexilum | |
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Orbexilum pedunculatum | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Fabales |
Family: | Fabaceae |
Subfamily: | Faboideae |
Tribe: | Psoraleeae |
Genus: | Orbexilum Raf. (1832) [1] |
Species | |
Synonyms [1] | |
RhytidomeneRydb. (1919) |
Orbexilum, commonly called leather-root, [2] is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family (Fabaceae). They are native to North America, where they are found in the United States and Mexico, south to Chiapas. [3]
This genus can be distinguished from other genera in the Psoraleeae by its "thick glabrous pod walls that are distinctively rugose and by [a] calyx that is scarcely accrescent." [4]
The genus was described by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque in 1832, with the type species O. latifolia, moved from Psoralea . [5] (O. latifolia is now considered a synonym of O. onobrychis. [6] ) Rafinesque differentiated Orbexilum from Psoralea largely on the basis of features of the calyx. [7]
Orbexilum comprises the following species: [1] [4]