Brownea
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Brownea is a genus of plants in the subfamily carob family (Caesalpinioideae) within the legume family(Fabaceae / Leguminosae). The 25 to 30 species are common in the Neotropics . Some species are also called "Rose of Venezuela".
description
Brownea species grow as shrubs or small trees . The leaves are pinnate.
The flowers stand together in racemose inflorescences . Some species (example: Brownea macrophylla ) are kauliflor . The two cover sheets are fused. The large, showy flowers are hermaphrodite, radial symmetry and five-fold with a double flower envelope . There are basically five sepals , for example in Brownea latifolia two are fused together, giving the impression that there are only four. The five petals are usually strikingly colored. There are two circles with five stamens each. There is only one carpel . There are legumes formed.
Systematics
The genus Brownea was in 1760 by Nicolaus Joseph von Jacquin in Enumeratio Systematica Plantarum, quas in Insulis Caribaeis vicinaque Americes ... first published. The generic name Brownea honors the Irish doctor and botanist Patrick Browne .
The genus Brownea belongs to the tribe Detarieae in the subfamily Caesalpinioideae within the family Fabaceae .
The genus Brownea contains 25 to 30 species in northern South America (Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela) and on the Caribbean islands .
- Brownea angustiflora Little
- Brownea ariza Benth.
- Brownea birschellii Hook. f.
- Brownea bolivarensis Pittier
- Brownea cauliflora Poepp. & Endl.
- Brownea coccinea Jacq.
- Brownea disepala Little
- Brownea enricii Quinones
- Brownea excelsa (Pittier) JFMacbr.
- Brownea gladisrojasiae D. Velasquez & Agostini
- Brownea grandiceps Jacq.
- Brownea herthae Harms
- Brownea holtonii Britton & Killip
- Brownea hybrida Backer
- Brownea leucantha Jacq.
- Brownea longipedicellata Huber
- Brownea loretensis Standl.
- Brownea macbrideana J.F. Macbr.
- Brownea macrophylla Linden
- Brownea multijuga Britton & Killip
- Brownea negrensis Benth.
- Brownea peruviana J.F. Macbr.
- Brownea puberula Little
- Brownea rosa-de-monte Bergius
- Brownea santanderensis Quinones
- Brownea similis Cowan
- Brownea stenantha Britton & Killip
- Brownea tillettiana D. Velasquez & Agostini
- Brownea ucayalina (Huber) Ducke
source
- Shirley C. Tucker: Floral development in Tribe Detarieae (Leguminosae: Caesalpinioideae): Amherstia, Brownea, and Tamarindus. In: American Journal of Botany , Volume 87, 2000, pp. 1385-1407: full text online.
- Andreas Bärtels: Tropical Plants , Ulmer Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3-8001-3937-5 , p. 76
- Rolf Blancke: Color Atlas Plants of the Caribbean and Central America. , Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-8001-3512-4 , p. 71
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Brownea in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), USDA , ARS , National Genetic Resources Program. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Retrieved November 28, 2015.
- ^ Brownea at Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, accessed on November 28, 2015.
- ↑ Data sheet at International Legume Database Information Service = ILDIS - LegumeWeb - World Database of Legumes , Version 10.38 from July 20, 2010.
further reading
- D. Velasquez, G. Agostini: Revision Sp. Venez. del genero Brownea: Tesis de Grado, 1981.
- D. Velasquez: Rev. Brownea Jacq. Thesis-Univ. Central de Venezuela, 1981, 50 pages.