Parkia

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Parkia
Parkia platycephala.jpg
Parkia platycephala
Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
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]
  • ParyphosphaeraH. Karst.
Parkia biglandulosa inflorescence, taken at AC&RI, Killikulam, India Inflorescence of Parkia biglandulosa.JPG
Parkia biglandulosa inflorescence, taken at AC&RI, Killikulam, India
Parkia multijuga seed pod, MHNT Parkia multijuga MHNT.BOT.2017.10.24.jpg
Parkia multijuga seed pod, MHNT
Parkia pendula wood, MHNT Parkia pendula MHNT.BOT.2010.6.43.jpg
Parkia pendula wood, 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. 1 2 "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 Botany82(10):1300-1320.
  4. David A. Neill. 2009. "Parkia nana (Leguminosae, Mimosoideae), a New Species from the Sub-Andean Sandstone Cordilleras of Peru". Novon19(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.

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