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Calpurnia is a genus of flowering plants within the family Fabaceae. It includes six species which range through eastern, central, and southern Africa and in southern India. [ 1 ] The genus comprises shrubs or small trees in or along the margin of forests in the eastern parts of South Africa .
Calpurnia aurea is a Southern African tree belonging to the family Fabaceae, occurring along the coastal regions from the south-eastern Cape northwards and inland to the central Transvaal, with an isolated population in eastern Zimbabwe. Mostly found as a small tree up to 4 m, but under forest conditions reaching heights of 15 m.
Calpurnia reflexa, also known as the Free State golden-pea or Sotho laburnum, is a plant species in the Fabaceae family. [1] References
The gens Calpurnia was a plebeian family at ancient Rome, which first appears in history during the third century BC. The first of the gens to obtain the consulship was Gaius Calpurnius Piso in 180 BC, but from this time their consulships were very frequent, and the family of the Pisones became one of the most illustrious in the Roman state.
It is dioecious, with male and female flowers on separate plants. Morphologically, it is highly variable. [2] Endod (as it is known in Amharic or shibti in Tigrigna) has been selected and cultivated by Africans for centuries, particularly in Ethiopia and Eritrea. It is used as a soap and shampoo as well as a poison to stun fish.
Calpurnia, a 2018 play by Audrey Dwyer; Calpurnia, African-American cook and maid for the Finch family in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird; Shira Calpurnia, protagonist of three Warhammer 40,000 novels, see List of Warhammer 40,000 novels#Enforcer: Shira Calpurnia; Calpurnia Virginia Tate, protagonist of the novel The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
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The Faboideae are a subfamily of the flowering plant family Fabaceae or Leguminosae. An acceptable alternative name for the subfamily is Papilionoideae, or Papilionaceae when this group of plants is treated as a family. [4] This subfamily is widely distributed, and members are adapted to a wide variety of environments.