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Taralea
Sign in to saveTaralea is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It includes five species of trees and shrubs native to northern South America, ranging from Colombia and Peru to Venezuela, the Guianas, and northern and northeastern Brazil. Habitats include riverine and inundated tropical lowland rain forest, seasonally dry forest (sometimes on white sand), woodland, and marsh. One or two species are also found in montane forest and in open moist woodland and scrub on sandstone-derived soils. It belongs to subfamily Faboideae.
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It is catalogued under topics including Dipterygeae, Fabaceae genera and Flora of Southern America.
Vinony links it to 10 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderFabales
- FamilyFabaceae
General: in distinguishing between Dipteryx and Taralea (Gasson, 1999), and this has
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 115
- With media
- 43
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Collections
- INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA (INPA), NY, UEFS, MO
- Recorded in
- Brasil, Brazil, Peru, Guiana Francesa
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Dipterygeae
- Image
- Taralea oppositifolia Aublet 1775 pl 298.jpg
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- taxon name
- Taralea
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Taralea
- taxon common name
- taralea
- Commons category
- Taralea
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Encyclopedic overview
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Taralea is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It includes five species of trees and shrubs native to northern South America, ranging from Colombia and Peru to Venezuela, the Guianas, and northern and northeastern Brazil. Habitats include riverine and inundated tropical lowland rain forest, seasonally dry forest (sometimes on white sand), woodland, and marsh. One or two species are also found in montane forest and in open moist woodland and scrub on sandstone-derived soils. It belongs to subfamily Faboideae.
Taralea can be distinguished from other members of tribe Dipterygeae by: a black and rugose petiolule; an elliptical, hairy ovary; a legume with elastic dehiscence; a circular, oval, compressed seed with a basal hilum; and an embryo that displays a cleft below the radical–hypocotyl axis and an inconspicuous plumule.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Taralea” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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