- Source: Pterodon (plant)
Pterodon is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It includes four species of trees native to Brazil and Bolivia. Typical habitats include seasonally-dry tropical forest, woodland (cerrado), and thorn shrubland (caatinga), often on rocky outcrops. It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae.
Pterodon can be distinguished from other members of the Dipterygeae as follows:
the leaf rachis is exalate, the fruit is a cryptosamara with oil glands in the epicarp, the seed testa is smooth and the raphe is apparent, with the hilum in a lateral position covered by an aril and a smooth embryo.
Species
Four species are accepted:
Pterodon abruptus (Moric.) Benth.
Pterodon apparicioi Pedersoli
Pterodon emarginatus Vogel
Pterodon pubescens (Benth.) Benth.
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Fabaceae
- Faboideae
- Pterodon (plant)
- Pterodon
- Pterodon emarginatus
- List of plants of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil
- Faboideae
- Jalapão State Park
- List of Fabaceae genera
- List of Mato Grosso state symbols
- Fayyum (fossil deposit)
- Diplobune
