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Archidendron

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

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|image = Archidendron scutiferum Blanco2.447.jpg

|image_caption = Archidendron scutiferum

|taxon = Archidendron

|authority = F.Muell.{{R|IPNI}}

|subdivision_ranks = Species

|subdivision = See text

|type_species = Archidendron vaillantii

|type_species_authority = (F.Muell.) F.Muell.{{R|FOA}}

|synonyms =

  • Cylindrokelupha {{small|Kosterm.}}
  • Hansemannia {{small|K.Schum.}}
  • Morolobium {{small|Kosterm.}}
  • Ortholobium {{small|Gagnep.}}
  • Paralbizzia {{small|Kosterm.}}
  • Torcula {{small|Noronha}}

|synonyms_ref = {{R|POWO}}

}}

Archidendron is a genus of flowering plants in the Mimosa subfamily (Mimosoideae) of the pea family, Fabaceae. It includes 98 species which range from India through Indochina, southern China, Taiwan, Malesia, and Papuasia to Queensland and New South Wales.{{R|POWO|GBIF}}

Description

Plants in this genus are shrubs or small to medium-sized trees up to {{convert|30|m}} tall;{{R|ALLEN}} they have bipinnate leaves, extrafloral nectaries, and without spines or thorns. Leaflets are usually arranged in opposite pairs. The genus is morphologically diverse in the characters of leaves, flowers and fruit. Inflorescence position may be {{botanygloss|axil|axillary}}, {{botanygloss|terminal}}, ramiflorous or cauliflorous. The form may be a 'head' or capitulum, an umbel, a raceme or a panicle. Flowers may be bell-shaped or tubular, the calyx and the corolla tube both 5-lobed. There are numerous stamens and one to several carpels. The fruit is a pod which may be flat, cylindrical, or twisted.{{R|FOA|FOC|BROWN}}

Species

{{As of|2024|12}}, Plants of the World Online accepts the following 98 species,{{R|POWO}} while another 20 species are yet to be formally described.{{R|BROWN|p=300}}

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Gallery

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|File:Archidendron muellerianum Coffs.jpg|A. muellerianum foliage

|File:Archidendron bigeminum flowers at Periya 2018 (1).jpg|A. bigeminum flowers

|Image:Pithecellobium jiringa.JPG|A. pauciflorum seeds

|File:Archidendron-lucyi-SF23032-05.jpg|A. lucyi seed pods

|Image:Archidendron bulbalinum - keredas.JPG|A. bulbalinum trunk

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References

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{{cite web |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:21710-1 |title=Archidendron F.Muell. |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |year=2024 |access-date=23 December 2024}}

{{cite web |url=https://www.gbif.org/species/2941201 |title=Archidendron F.Muell. |website=Global Biodiversity Information Facility |year=2024 |access-date=23 December 2024}}

{{cite journal |last1=Brown |first1=G.K. |last2=Aju |first2=J. |last3=Bayly |first3=M.J. |last4=Murphy |first4=D.J. |last5=McLay |first5=T.G.B. |title=Phylogeny and classification of the Australasian and Indomalayan mimosoid legumes Archidendron and Archidendropsis (Leguminosae, subfamily Caesalpinioideae, mimosoid clade) |journal=PhytoKeys |date=2022 |issue=205 |pages=299–333 |doi=10.3897/phytokeys.205.79381 |doi-access=free |pmid=36762019|pmc=9848999 |bibcode=2022PhytK.205..299B }}

{{cite web |url=https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Archidendron |title=Archidendron |last1=Cowan |first1=R.S. |year=2022 |editor-last1=Kodela |editor-first1=P.G. |website=Flora of Australia |publisher=Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water: Canberra |access-date=23 December 2024}}

{{cite web |title=Archidendron F.Muell. |url=http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=102468 |website=Flora of China (eFloras) |publisher=Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA. |access-date=23 December 2024}}

{{cite book |last1=Allen |first1=O.N. |last2=Allen |first2=Ethel K. |date=1981 |title=The Leguminosae - A Source Book of Characteristics, Uses and Nodulation |location=Madison, Wisconsin |publisher=University of Wisconsin Press |page=64 |isbn=978-0-274-72077-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6gUXRNc6sDoC&q=Archidendron }}

{{cite web |url=https://www.ipni.org/n/21710-1 |title=Archidendron F.Muell., Fragm. (Mueller) 5(34): 59 (1865) |website=International Plant Names Index (IPNI) |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |year=2025 |access-date=19 June 2025}}

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Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot

Category:Fabaceae genera

Category:Taxa named by Ferdinand von Mueller