Cyamopsis Dc.

Cyamopsis (en)

Genus

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae

Characteristics

Herbs, annual, with appressed medifixed (T-shaped) trichomes. Stipules subulate or linear. Leaves 3-foliolate [or simple or im­paripinnate]; leaflet blades on both surfaces or only abaxially with appressed white medifixed trichomes, margin serrate [or entire or parted]. Inflorescence axillary, racemose; peduncle present or absent. Calyx 5-toothed, most abaxial one longest. Corolla yellowish, yellow, or pink; keel not curled, ± bursiform, spur short or absent. Stamens 10, monadelphous; filaments connate into a tube, base not squamate; anthers with rigid point at apex. Ovary sessile. Legume nearly 4-angled, flattened, apex tapered to a beak. Seeds cubic or nearly so, surface slightly tubercular bulged.
More
Annual herbs with biramous hairs. Leaves imparipinnate; leaflets 3–7 or rarely single, with entire or toothed margins. Flowers small in axillary racemes. Calyx broad, oblique, the lowest tooth longest. Standard glabrous, markedly veined; keel somewhat pouched or shortly spurred at the sides. Filaments united into a tube or the vexillary one almost free; anthers all alike, apiculate. Pod flat, dehiscent, erect, longitudinally ridged, several-seeded, with septa between the seeds, ending in a pronounced beak. Seeds flattened, minutely tuberculate.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
Growth support -
Foliage retention -
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) -
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color -
Blooming months -
Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

Light -
Soil humidity -
Soil texture -
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) -

Usage

Uses -
Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Mode -
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

Cyamopsis unspecified picture

Distribution

Cyamopsis world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:22155-1
WFO ID wfo-4000010138
COL ID 3XMB
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR) Link

Synonyms

Cyamopsis Cordaea

Lower taxons

Cyamopsis senegalensis Cyamopsis serrata Cyamopsis tetragonoloba Cyamopsis dentata