Afgekia

Afgekia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Rosids
Order:	Fabales
Family:	Fabaceae
Subfamily:	Faboideae
(unranked):	Inverted repeat-lacking clade (incertae sedis)
Tribe:	Millettieae
Genus:	Afgekia; Carib
Species
	see text

Afgekia is a small genus of large perennial climbing shrubs native to Thailand in Asia, belonging to the family Fabaceae.^[1]

They are reminiscent of the related genus of Wisteria.^[2]

Species[]

As listed by Plants of the World Online;^[1]

Afgekia mahidolae B.L.Burtt & Chermsir.^[3]
Craib^[4]

The genus was named from the initials of Arthur Francis George Kerr (1877–1942), an Irish-born plant collector who worked in then-Siam in the early twentieth century.^[5] It was first described and published in Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1927 on page 376.^[1]

The genus is recognized by the United States Department of Agriculture and the Agricultural Research Service, but they only list Afgekia sericea Craib.^[6]

References[]

^ ^a ^b ^c "Afgekia Craib | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
^ LI, Jianhua; JIANG, Jin-Huo; FU, Cheng-Xin; TANG, Shao-Qing (January 2014). "Molecular systematics and biogeography of Wisteria inferred from nucleotide sequences of nuclear and plastid genes". Journal of Systematics and Evolution. 52 (1): 40–50. doi:10.1111/jse.12061.
^ "NParks | Afgekia mahidoliae". www.nparks.gov.sg. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
^ "NParks | Afgekia sericea". www.nparks.gov.sg. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
^ "Taxon: Afgekia sericea Craib". npgsweb.ars-grin.gov. Retrieved 29 January 2022.

External links[]

Flora of Thailand (photo) Archived 2007-03-12 at the Wayback Machine
Afgekia mahidolae Burtt et Chermsir (in Thai)

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[POWO-1] "Afgekia Craib | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 29 January 2022.

[2] LI, Jianhua; JIANG, Jin-Huo; FU, Cheng-Xin; TANG, Shao-Qing (January 2014). "Molecular systematics and biogeography of Wisteria inferred from nucleotide sequences of nuclear and plastid genes". Journal of Systematics and Evolution. 52 (1): 40–50. doi:10.1111/jse.12061.

[3] "NParks | Afgekia mahidoliae". www.nparks.gov.sg. Retrieved 29 January 2022.

[4] "NParks | Afgekia sericea". www.nparks.gov.sg. Retrieved 29 January 2022.

[5] Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. Retrieved 1 January 2021.

[6] "Taxon: Afgekia sericea Craib". npgsweb.ars-grin.gov. Retrieved 29 January 2022.

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