Coral bean
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Coral bean ( Kennedia rubicunda ) |
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The coral bean ( Kennedia rubicunda ) or dark purple bean or coral wine is a species within the genus Kennedia in the family Pea family (Fabaceae) in 1795 under the name Glycine rubicunda published and received in 1804 the present name. The botanical species name is derived from the Latin word rubicundus for 'bright red, red-hot' after the cloudy red crown of the flower.
description
This fast-growing, woody, sometimes prostrate climbing plant can reach heights of up to 4 m. The threefold, dark green, egg-shaped to lanceolate , occasionally rounded leaves are 2 to 8 cm wide and 3 to 12 cm long. The striking, dark red, butterfly-shaped flowers in pendulous umbels appear from January to April. The approximately 15 mm diameter flowers sit on mostly 2 to 7 cm long stems. The densely rusty hairy sepals are 10 to 15 mm long, the crown 30 to 40 mm long. The flattened legumes are 5 to 10 cm long.
The number of chromosomes is 2n = 22.
ecology
The plant is one of the first to grow again after a bush fire.
distribution and habitat
The plant is endemic to Australia . It occurs in Victoria , New South Wales and Queensland and is widespread there. The coral bean is found in a wide variety of habitats, from the coast to the mountains, usually in forest and open woodland, especially in coastal areas.
swell
- Andreas Bärtels: Tropical Plants . Ulmer Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3-8001-3937-5 , p. 190
Individual evidence
- ↑ IPNI: Plant Name Details (accessed April 10, 2010)
- ↑ Helmut Genaust: Etymological dictionary of botanical plant names. 3rd, completely revised and expanded edition. Birkhäuser, Basel / Boston / Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-7643-2390-6 , p. 545.
- ^ A b C. Gardner & TA James: Kennedia rubicunda Vent. at New South Wales Flora Online (accessed May 12, 2010)
- ↑ a b Australian Native Plants Society (Australia): Kennedia rubicunda (at anpsa.org.au, English, accessed on October 17, 2010)
- ↑ Kennedia rubicunda at Tropicos.org. In: IPCN Chromosome Reports . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis
- ↑ Botanic Gardens Trust: Kennedia rubicunda ( Memento of the original from March 1, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (at www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au, English, accessed April 10, 2010)
