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Piscidia Carthagenensis
''Piscidia'' is a genus of flowering plants in subfamily Faboideae of the legume family, Fabaceae. The generic name is derived from the Latin words ''piscis'', meaning "fish," and ''caedo'', meaning "to kill." It refers to the use of extracts from the plant to poison fish. Selected species * '' Piscidia carthagenensis'' Jacq. * ''Piscidia grandifolia'' (Donn.Sm.) I.M.Johnst. * '' Piscidia mollis'' Rose * ''Piscidia piscipula'' (L.) Sarg. Formerly placed here * ''Sesbania punicea ''Sesbania punicea'' (Spanish gold, rattlebox, or scarlet sesban) is an ornamental shrub with reddish-orange flowers. It has deciduous leaves and grows to a height of 15 feet (4.5 m). This plant has a high demand for water, and thrives in swamps ...'' (Cav.) Benth. (as ''P. punicea'' Cav.) References External links * * Millettieae Fabaceae genera Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus {{Millettieae-stub ...
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Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the "father of modern taxonomy". Many of his writings were in Latin; his name is rendered in Latin as and, after his 1761 ennoblement, as . Linnaeus was born in Råshult, the countryside of Småland, in southern Sweden. He received most of his higher education at Uppsala University and began giving lectures in botany there in 1730. He lived abroad between 1735 and 1738, where he studied and also published the first edition of his ' in the Netherlands. He then returned to Sweden where he became professor of medicine and botany at Uppsala. In the 1740s, he was sent on several journeys through Sweden to find and classify plants and animals. In the 1750s and 1760s, he continued to collect an ...
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Piscidia Piscipula
''Piscidia piscipula'', commonly named Florida fishpoison tree, Jamaican dogwood, or fishfuddle, is a medium-sized, deciduous, tropical tree in the Fabaceae family. It is native to the Greater Antilles (except Puerto Rico), extreme southern Florida (primarily the Florida Keys) and the Bahamas, and the coastal region from Panama northward to the vicinity of Ocampo, Tamaulipas, Mexico. The native Taino of the West Indies discovered that extracts from the tree could sedate fish, allowing them to be caught by hand. This practice led to the tree's common names—fishpoison and fishfuddle. The tree has medicinal value as an analgesic and sedative. The generic name is Latin for "fish killer", and the specific epithet is Latin for "little fish".Nellis, David N. 1994. Seashore plants of South Florida and the Caribbean: A guide to identification and propagation of xeriscape plants. Pineapple Press. 160 p. Habitat The Florida fishpoison tree grows in coastal zones. It prefers well-dr ...
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Flowering Plant
Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. The term "angiosperm" is derived from the Greek words ('container, vessel') and ('seed'), and refers to those plants that produce their seeds enclosed within a fruit. They are by far the most diverse group of land plants with 64 orders, 416 families, approximately 13,000 known genera and 300,000 known species. Angiosperms were formerly called Magnoliophyta (). Like gymnosperms, angiosperms are seed-producing plants. They are distinguished from gymnosperms by characteristics including flowers, endosperm within their seeds, and the production of fruits that contain the seeds. The ancestors of flowering plants diverged from the common ancestor of all living gymnosperms before the end of the Carboniferous, over 300 million years ago. The closest fossil relatives of flowering plants are uncertain and contentious. The earliest angiosperm fossils ar ...
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Faboideae
The Faboideae are a subfamily of the flowering plant family Fabaceae or Leguminosae. An acceptable alternative name for the subfamily is Papilionoideae, or Papilionaceae when this group of plants is treated as a family. This subfamily is widely distributed, and members are adapted to a wide variety of environments. Faboideae may be trees, shrubs, or herbaceous plants. Members include the pea, the sweet pea, the laburnum, and other legumes. The pea-shaped flowers are characteristic of the Faboideae subfamily and root nodulation is very common. Genera The type genus, ''Faba'', is a synonym of ''Vicia'', and is listed here as ''Vicia''. *''Abrus'' *''Acmispon'' *''Acosmium'' *'' Adenocarpus'' *'' Adenodolichos'' *'' Adesmia'' *'' Aenictophyton'' *''Aeschynomene'' *'' Afgekia'' *''Aganope'' *'' Airyantha'' *''Aldina'' *''Alexa'' *''Alhagi'' *'' Alistilus'' *'' Almaleea'' *'' Alysicarpus'' *'' Amburana'' *''Amicia'' *'' Ammodendron'' *'' Ammopiptanthus'' *'' Ammothamnus'' *'' ...
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Legume
A legume () is a plant in the family Fabaceae (or Leguminosae), or the fruit or seed of such a plant. When used as a dry grain, the seed is also called a pulse. Legumes are grown agriculturally, primarily for human consumption, for livestock forage and silage, and as soil-enhancing green manure. Well-known legumes include beans, soybeans, chickpeas, peanuts, lentils, lupins, mesquite, carob, tamarind, alfalfa, and clover. Legumes produce a botanically unique type of fruit – a simple dry fruit that develops from a simple carpel and usually dehisces (opens along a seam) on two sides. Legumes are notable in that most of them have symbiotic nitrogen-fixing bacteria in structures called root nodules. For that reason, they play a key role in crop rotation. Terminology The term ''pulse'', as used by the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), is reserved for legume crops harvested solely for the dry seed. This excludes green beans and green peas, which a ...
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Fabaceae
The Fabaceae or Leguminosae,International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants.
Article 18.5 states: "The following names, of long usage, are treated as validly published: ....Leguminosae (nom. alt.: Fabaceae; type: Faba Mill. Vicia L.; ... When the Papilionaceae are regarded as a family distinct from the remainder of the Leguminosae, the name Papilionaceae is conserved against Leguminosae." English pronunciations are as follows: , and .
commonly known as the legume, pea, or bean family, are a large and agriculturally important of

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Latin
Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the Roman Republic it became the dominant language in the Italian region and subsequently throughout the Roman Empire. Even after the fall of Western Rome, Latin remained the common language of international communication, science, scholarship and academia in Europe until well into the 18th century, when other regional vernaculars (including its own descendants, the Romance languages) supplanted it in common academic and political usage, and it eventually became a dead language in the modern linguistic definition. Latin is a highly inflected language, with three distinct genders (masculine, feminine, and neuter), six or seven noun cases (nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, ablative, and vocative), five declensions, four verb conjuga ...
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Piscidia Carthagenensis
''Piscidia'' is a genus of flowering plants in subfamily Faboideae of the legume family, Fabaceae. The generic name is derived from the Latin words ''piscis'', meaning "fish," and ''caedo'', meaning "to kill." It refers to the use of extracts from the plant to poison fish. Selected species * '' Piscidia carthagenensis'' Jacq. * ''Piscidia grandifolia'' (Donn.Sm.) I.M.Johnst. * '' Piscidia mollis'' Rose * ''Piscidia piscipula'' (L.) Sarg. Formerly placed here * ''Sesbania punicea ''Sesbania punicea'' (Spanish gold, rattlebox, or scarlet sesban) is an ornamental shrub with reddish-orange flowers. It has deciduous leaves and grows to a height of 15 feet (4.5 m). This plant has a high demand for water, and thrives in swamps ...'' (Cav.) Benth. (as ''P. punicea'' Cav.) References External links * * Millettieae Fabaceae genera Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus {{Millettieae-stub ...
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Piscidia Grandifolia
''Piscidia'' is a genus of flowering plants in subfamily Faboideae of the legume family, Fabaceae. The generic name is derived from the Latin words ''piscis'', meaning "fish," and ''caedo'', meaning "to kill." It refers to the use of extracts from the plant to poison fish. Selected species * '' Piscidia carthagenensis'' Jacq. * '' Piscidia grandifolia'' (Donn.Sm.) I.M.Johnst. * '' Piscidia mollis'' Rose * ''Piscidia piscipula'' (L.) Sarg. Formerly placed here * ''Sesbania punicea ''Sesbania punicea'' (Spanish gold, rattlebox, or scarlet sesban) is an ornamental shrub with reddish-orange flowers. It has deciduous leaves and grows to a height of 15 feet (4.5 m). This plant has a high demand for water, and thrives in swamps ...'' (Cav.) Benth. (as ''P. punicea'' Cav.) References External links * * Millettieae Fabaceae genera Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus {{Millettieae-stub ...
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Piscidia Mollis
''Piscidia'' is a genus of flowering plants in subfamily Faboideae of the legume family, Fabaceae. The generic name is derived from the Latin words ''piscis'', meaning "fish," and ''caedo'', meaning "to kill." It refers to the use of extracts from the plant to poison fish. Selected species * ''Piscidia carthagenensis'' Jacq. * ''Piscidia grandifolia'' (Donn.Sm.) I.M.Johnst. * '' Piscidia mollis'' Rose * ''Piscidia piscipula'' (L.) Sarg. Formerly placed here * ''Sesbania punicea ''Sesbania punicea'' (Spanish gold, rattlebox, or scarlet sesban) is an ornamental shrub with reddish-orange flowers. It has deciduous leaves and grows to a height of 15 feet (4.5 m). This plant has a high demand for water, and thrives in swamps ...'' (Cav.) Benth. (as ''P. punicea'' Cav.) References External links * * Millettieae Fabaceae genera Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus {{Millettieae-stub ...
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Sesbania Punicea
''Sesbania punicea'' (Spanish gold, rattlebox, or scarlet sesban) is an ornamental shrub with reddish-orange flowers. It has deciduous leaves and grows to a height of 15 feet (4.5 m). This plant has a high demand for water, and thrives in swamps or wet areas. It requires a mildly acidic soil, with a pH between 6.1 and 6.5. Distribution The species is native to Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay. It has spread to other parts of South America and many coastal southern United States as well as to parts of Africa. Due to its high demand for water, this species is often found on marshy shorelines. It also forms dense thickets and thrives in disturbed areas. Taxonomy The genus ''Sesbania'' is within the larger family Fabaceae. The Fabaceae are divided into three subfamilies: *Mimosoideae (80 genera and 3,200 species) ** Caesalpinioideae (170 genera and 2,000 species) ***Faboideae (470 genera and 14,000 species) The genus'' Sesbania'' belongs to the subfamily Faboideae, which ha ...
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Millettieae
The tribe Millettieae is one of the subdivisions of the plant family Fabaceae. The following genera are recognized by the USDA. In 2019, some genera USDA places in this tribe were moved to tribe Wisterieae; these are listed at the end. * ''Aganope'' Miq. * '' Antheroporum'' Gagnep. * '' Apurimacia'' Harms * '' Austrosteenisia'' R. Geesink * '' Bergeronia'' Micheli * '' Burkilliodendron'' Sastry * '' Chadsia'' Bojer * ''Craibia'' Harms & Dunn * '' Craspedolobium'' Harms * '' Dahlstedtia'' Malme * '' Dalbergiella'' Baker f. * '' Deguelia'' Aubl. * ''Derris'' Lour. * '' Dewevrea'' Micheli * '' Disynstemon'' R. Vig. * ''Fordia'' Hemsl. * '' Hesperothamnus'' Brandegee * ''Kunstleria'' Prain * '' Leptoderris'' Dunn * ''Lonchocarpus'' Kunth * '' Margaritolobium'' Harms * ''Millettia'' Wight & Arn. * '' Muellera'' L. f. * ''Mundulea'' (DC.) Benth. * '' Ostryocarpus'' Hook. f. * '' Paratephrosia'' Domin * ''Philenoptera'' Hochst. ''ex'' A.Rich. * '' Pi ...
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