Amorpha ( lat.Amórpha ), or bezobraza - a small genus of deciduous shrubs and shrubs of the legume family ( Fabaceae ).
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 Amorpha shrubby . Type view . General view of a flowering plant. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Amorpha L. , 1753 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Monosemion Raf. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Amorpha fruticosa L. [2] - Shrub amorpha | |||||||||||||||||||||||
The scientific name of the genus comes from the Greek. ἄμορφος - ugly, ugly , because the flowers do not have wings and a boat ( moth type corolla ).
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Distribution and Ecology
In nature , the range of the genus covers the southern regions of Canada , almost the entire territory of the United States and the northern regions of Mexico .
Representatives of the genus grow on lit dry soils.
Biological Description
The leaf arrangement is alternate. Leaves are complex, pinnate; leaflets numerous, up to 45, whole, whole, sessile or short petioles , glabrous or pubescent.
The flowers are from dark purple to white, small, in the final narrow, multi-flowered brushes or panicles . Calyx bell - shaped with five short identical or different teeth, glandular-spotted; whisk from one wide sail with a short marigold. Wings and boats are absent. Stamens 10 fused with threads; ovary sessile, with two ovules .
The beans are short, usually with one seed, not opening, glabrous or pubescent, with glandular warts. Seeds are elongated, kidney-shaped, smooth, shiny.
Classification
Views
According to the database of The Plant List , the genus includes 18 species [3] :
- Amorpha apiculata wiggins
- Amorpha californica torr. & A.Gray - California Amorpha
- Amorpha canescens Pursh - Gray Amorpha
- Amorpha confusa ( Wilbur ) SCKStraub , Sorrie & Weakley
- Amorpha crenulata Rydb.
- Amorpha croceolanata PWWatson
- Amorpha fruticosa L. typus [2] - Shrub amorpha
- Amorpha georgiana wilbur
- Amorpha glabra Poir. - Amorfa nude
- Amorpha herbacea Walter - Amorpha herbaceous
- Amorpha laevigata Torr. & A.Gray
- Amorpha nana C. Fraser - Dwarf Amorpha
- Amorpha nitens FE Boynton
- Amorpha × notha EJPalmer
- Amorpha ouachitensis wilbur
- Amorpha paniculata Torr. & A.Gray - Amorpha paniculata
- Amorpha roemeriana scheele
- Amorpha schwerinii CKSchneid.
Taxonomy
The genus Amorpha is included in the tribe Amorpheae of the subfamily Moth ( Faboideae ) of the legume family ( Fabaceae ) of the order Leguminous ( Fabales ).
| 4 more families (according to APG II System ) | about 470 more births | ||||||||||||||
| beanaceous order | subfamily Moth | ||||||||||||||
| about 15 species | |||||||||||||||
| Department of Flowering, or Angiosperms | Bean family | Amorf clan | |||||||||||||
| 44 more order flowering plants (according to APG II System ) | 2 more subfamilies (according to APG II System ) | ||||||||||||||
Notes
- ↑ For the conventionality of specifying the class of dicotyledons as a superior taxon for the plant group described in this article, see the APG Systems section of the Dicotyledonous article .
- ↑ 1 2 Information about the genus Amorpha in the Index Nominum Genericorum database of the International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT) .
- ↑ Amorpha . The Plant List . Version 1.1. (2013). Date of treatment January 4, 2017.
Literature
- Amorfa // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- Sokolov S. Ya., Shinchinsky N.V. Genus 34. Amorpha - Amorpha L. // Trees and shrubs of the USSR. Wild, cultivated and promising for introduction. / Ed. volumes S. Ya. Sokolov . - M. - L .: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR , 1958. - T. IV. Angiosperms. Legumes - Pomegranates. - S. 135-140. - 976 p. - 2500 copies.
- Gorshkova S. G. Rod. Amorpha - Amorpha L. // Flora of the USSR : in 30 tons / hl. ed. V.L. Komarov . - M .; L .: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR , 1945. - T. 11 / ed. volumes B.K. Shishkin . - S. 302. - 432 p. - 4000 copies.