Selenipedium

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Rosids
Cladus: Eurosids I
Ordo: Fabales

Familia: Fabaceae
Subfamilia: Caesalpinioideae
Genus: Ceratonia
Species: C. oreothauma – C. siliqua
Name

Ceratonia L., Sp. Pl.: 1026 (1753).

Type species: C. siliqua L.

Synonyms

Homotypic
Ceratia Adans., Fam. Pl. 2: 319 (1763), nom. illeg.
Siliqua Duhamel, Traité Arbr. Arbust. 2: 261 (1755), nom. illeg.

References
Primary references

Linnaeus, C. 1753. Species Plantarum. Tomus II: 1026. Reference page.

Links

Farr, E.R. & Zijlstra, G. (eds.) 1996 onwards. Ceratonia in Index Nominum Genericorum (Plantarum). Accessed: 2012 Jan 25.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Ceratonia in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 November 12. Reference page.
Tropicos.org 2019. Ceratonia. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 November 12.
International Plant Names Index. 2016. Ceratonia. Published online. Accessed: Dec. 18 2016.

Vernacular names
Esperanto: Ceratonio
suomi: Johanneksenleipäpuut
עברית: חרוב
italiano: Carrubo
македонски: Рогачи

Ceratonia /ˌsɛrəˈtoʊniə/[1] is small genus of flowering trees in the pea family, Fabaceae, endemic to the Mediterranean region and the Middle East. Its best known member, the carob tree, is cultivated for its pods and has been widely introduced to regions with similar climates. The genus was long considered monotypic, but a second species, Ceratonia oreothauma, was identified in 1979 from Oman and Somalia.[2] It is in the tribe Umitzieae, subfamily Caesalpinioideae.

An obsolete name for Ceratonia was Acalis.
Fossil record

†Ceratonia emarginata fossils are known from the Miocene of Switzerland and Hungary.[3]
References

Sunset Western Garden Book, 1995:606–607
Hillcoat, D.; Lewis, G.; Verdcourt, B. (1980). "A New Species of Ceratonia (Leguminosae-Caesalpinioideae) from Arabia and the Somali Republic". Kew Bulletin. 35 (2): 261–271. doi:10.2307/4114570. JSTOR 4114570.
Leguminosae species from the territory of Abkhazia by Alexandra K. Shakryl, Advances in Legume Systematics: Part 4, The Fossil Record, Ed. P.S. Herendeen & Dilcher, 1992, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, ISBN 0 947643 40 0