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Eriosema
Sign in to saveEriosema is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. Accepted species number over 150. The genus is widespread in tropics.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Eriosema is referenced by 11 other articles, and connects out to plant, leaf and International Standard Book Number.
It is catalogued under topics including Fabaceae genera, Phaseoleae and Taxa named by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle.
Its subject is documented across 11 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
Brown Bonnets
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderFabales
- FamilyFabaceae
Appearance: This appears to be a hybrid between Eriosema shirense Baker
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,510
- With media
- 449
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Collections
- FC-UNAM, IIB-UV, IBUNAM, INECOL, DERN-IMECBIO-CUCSUR-UDG, NY
- Recorded in
- Mexico, Brazil, South Africa, Tanzania, Brasil
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Cajaninae
- Image
- Flickr - João de Deus Medeiros - Eriosema campestre (1).jpg
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- Eriosema
- taxon name
- Eriosema
- topic's main category
- Category:Eriosema
- taxon common name
- 鸡头薯属
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Encyclopedic overview
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Eriosema is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. Accepted species number over 150. The genus is widespread in tropics.
==Description== Species of Eriosema are mostly herbs or shrublets. Leaves are pinnately 3-foliolate, rarely reduced to a single leaflet. Inflorescences are 1–2-flowered or pedunculate racemes in the leaf axils, yellow to orange, calyx is campanulate, consists of five similar lobes. Pods are short and flattened with two seeds.
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