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Guilandina bonduc leaves. It is a liana that reaches a length of 6 m (20 ft) or more and scrambles over other vegetation. The stems are covered in curved spines. [6] Guilandina bonduc grows as a climber, up to 8 m (30 ft) long or as a large sprawling shrub or small shrubby tree. The stems are irregularly covered with curved prickles.
Bonduc Adans. (1763) Caesalpinia subgen. Guilandina (L. 1753) Gillis & Proctor (1974) Guilandina is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae.
The Fabales are an order of flowering plants included in the rosid group of the eudicots in the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group II classification system. In the APG II circumscription, this order includes the families Fabaceae or legumes (including the subfamilies Caesalpinioideae, Mimosoideae, and Faboideae), Quillajaceae, Polygalaceae or milkworts (including the families Diclidantheraceae ...
Caesalpinia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It includes 10 species which range from southeastern Mexico through Central America to Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, and to Cuba, Hispaniola, and the Bahamas.
Grey nickernut (Caesalpinia bonduc) 3. a,b Colour forms of ox-eye beans (Mucuna gigantea) Caesalpinia bonduc – grey nickernut; Caesalpinia major – yellow nickernut; Carapa guianensis – crabwood (New World tropics) Entada gigas – seaheart, (New World tropics) Entada rheedii – snuff box sea bean, from the tropics of the Indian Ocean
Its name is formed from the generic name Caesalpinia. It is known also as the peacock flower subfamily. [5] The Caesalpinioideae are mainly trees distributed in the moist tropics, but include such temperate species as the honeylocust (Gleditsia triacanthos) and Kentucky coffeetree (Gymnocladus dioicus). It has the following clade-based definition:
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