Macroptilium

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: Faboideae
Tribus: Phaseoleae
Subtribus: Phaseolinae
Genus: Macroptilium
Species: M. arenarium – M. atropurpureum – M. bracteatum – M. chacoensis – M. cochleatum – M. ecuadoriense – M. erythroloma – M. gibbosifolium – M. gracile – M. lathyroides – M. longepedunculatum – M. martii – M. monophyllum – M. panduratum – M. pedatum – M. prostratum – M. psammodes – M. sabaraense – M. supinum
Source(s) of checklist:
Name

Macroptilium (Benth.) Urb., 1928

Basionym
Phaseolus sect. Macroptilium Benth.

Distribution
Native distribution areas:

Continental: Tropical & Subtropical America
Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Arizona, Aruba, Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Cayman Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, French Guiana, Galápagos, Georgia, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Louisiana, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Netherlands Antilles, New Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Southwest Caribbean, Suriname, Texas, Trinidad-Tobago, Turks-Caicos Is., Uruguay, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Windward Is.
Introduced into:
Alabama, Andaman Is., Angola, Bangladesh, Benin, Burkina, Chagos Archipelago, China Southeast, Christmas I., Cocos (Keeling) Is., Cook Is., Easter Is., Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, Hawaii, India, Jawa, Kenya, Lesser Sunda Is., Madagascar, Malaya, Mali, Marianas, Mauritius, Mexican Pacific Is., Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, New Caledonia, New Guinea, New South Wales, Niue, Northern Territory, Pakistan, Philippines, Queensland, Rodrigues, Réunion, South China Sea, Sri Lanka, St.Helena, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tokelau-Manihiki, Tonga, Uganda, Vietnam, Wallis-Futuna Is., Western Australia, Zimbabwe

References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References
Primary references

Urban, I. (ed.) 1923–1928. Symbolae Antillanae seu Fundamenta florae Indiae Occidentalis. Vol. IX. 568 pp. Fratres Borntraeger, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. BHL Reference page. : 9: BHL

Links

Govaerts, R. et al. 2021. Macroptilium in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2021 May 19. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2021. Macroptilium. Published online. Accessed: May 19 2021.
Tropicos.org 2021. Macroptilium. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2021 May 19.
Hassler, M. 2021. Macroptilium. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2021. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2021 May 19. Reference page.
Hassler, M. 2021. World Plants. Synonymic Checklist and Distribution of the World Flora. . Macroptilium. Accessed: 19 May 2021.

Vernacular names

Macroptilium is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae.

Species

Macroptilium is made up of 19 species segregated into two monophyletic sections.[1][2]
Section Macroptilium

Macroptilium atropurpureum
Macroptilium bracteatum
Macroptilium erythroloma
Macroptilium ecuadoriensis
Macroptilium gracile
Macroptilium lathyroides
Macroptilium longepedunculatum
Macroptilium monophyllum
Macroptilium panduratum

Section Microcochle

Macroptilium arenarium
Macroptilium cochleatum
Macroptilium fraternum
Macroptilium gibbosifolium (Ortega) A. Delgado
Macroptilium martii
Macroptilium pedatum
Macroptilium prostratum
Macroptilium psammodes
Macroptilium sabaraense
Macroptilium supinum

References

Espert SM, Drewes SI, Burghardt AD (2007). "Phylogeny of Macroptilium (Leguminosae): morphological, biochemical and molecular evidence". Cladistics. 23 (2): 119–129. doi:10.1111/j.1096-0031.2006.00140.x. S2CID 85112562.
Delgado-Salinas A, Lewis GP (2008). "A new species of Macroptilium (Benth.) Urb. (Leguminosae: Papilionoideae: Phaseolinae) from North-Eastern Brazil". Kew Bull. 63 (1): 151–154. doi:10.1007/s12225-007-9010-x. S2CID 11603199.