Entada

Entada
	fruit
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Fabales
Family:	Fabaceae
Subfamily:	Caesalpinioideae
Clade:	Mimosoid clade
Genus:	Entada; Adans.
Species
	See text
Synonyms
	Entadopsis Britton; Gigalobium P. Browne; Perima Raf.; Pusaetha Kuntze; Strepsilobus Raf.;

Entada abyssinica - MHNT

Entada africana- MHNT

Entada polyphylla - MHNT

Entada is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae, in the mimosoid clade of the subfamily Caesalpinioideae.^[2] It consists of some 30 species of trees, shrubs and tropical lianas. About 21 species are known from Africa, six from Asia, two from the American tropics and one with a pantropical distribution. They have compound leaves and produce exceptionally large seedpods of up to 1.5 metres (4.9 ft) long. Their seeds are buoyant and survive lengthy journeys via rivers and ocean currents, to eventually wash up on tropical beaches.

Species[]

The following species have been accepted:^[3]

Steudel ex A. Rich.
Guill. & Perr.
Schinz
F.White
Ridl.
Villiers
(Benth.) Drake
Brenan
Entada gigas (L.) Fawc. & Rendle - sea heart, cœur de la mer (Pantropical)
Gagnep.
De Wild.
Harms
(R.Vig.) Brenan
(Oliv.) Tisser.
Torre
Brenan
Merr.
(Vatke) R.Vig.
Brenan
Entada phaseoloides (L.) Merr. - St. Thomas bean (Oceania, East Asia)
Benth.
(L.) DC.
Gagnep.
Entada rheedii Spreng. - snuff box (sea) bean (Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Australia);
synonyms: E. pursaetha DC., E. monostachya DC.
Brenan
Ridl.
(Taub.) Harms
R.Vig.
Harv.

References[]

^ "Entada Adans". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 2007-10-05. Archived from the original on 2009-05-06. Retrieved 2009-04-01.
^ The Legume Phylogeny Working Group (LPWG). (2017). "A new subfamily classification of the Leguminosae based on a taxonomically comprehensive phylogeny". Taxon. 66 (1): 44–77. doi:10.12705/661.3.
^ "Search results — the Plant List".

External links[]

Madagascar Catalogue
Taxonomy
Media related to Entada at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Entada at Wikispecies

[1] "Entada Adans". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 2007-10-05. Archived from the original on 2009-05-06. Retrieved 2009-04-01.

[6subfamilies-2] The Legume Phylogeny Working Group (LPWG). (2017). "A new subfamily classification of the Leguminosae based on a taxonomically comprehensive phylogeny". Taxon. 66 (1): 44–77. doi:10.12705/661.3.

[3] "Search results — the Plant List".

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