Entada
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| Entada africana fruit | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Subfamily: | Mimosoideae |
| Tribe: | Mimoseae |
| Genus: | Entada Adans.[1] |
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Entada is a genus of flowering plants in the pea family, Fabaceae, subfamily Mimosoideae. It consists of some 30 species of trees, shrubs and lianas. About 21 species are known from Africa, six from Asia, two from the American tropics and one with a pantropical distribution.
[edit] Selected species
- Entada abyssinica Steudel ex A. Rich.
- Entada africana Guill. & Perr.
- Entada chrysostachys (Benth.) Drake
- Entada gigas (L.) Fawc. & Rendle - Sea Heart, Cœur de la mer (Pantropical)
- Entada phaseoloides (L.) Merr. - St. Thomas Bean (Oceania, East Asia). Commonly called Gogo in the Philippines.
- Entada polystachya (L.) DC.
- Entada rheedii Spreng. - Snuff Box Sea Bean (Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Australia)
[edit] References
- ^ "Entada Adans.". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 2007-10-05. http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?4281. Retrieved 2009-04-01.
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