Dermatophyllum
Dermatophyllum | |
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Dermatophyllum secundiflorum | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Fabales |
Family: | Fabaceae |
Subfamily: | Faboideae |
Clade: | Meso-Papilionoideae |
Genus: | Dermatophyllum Scheele |
Type species | |
Dermatophyllum speciosum Scheele
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Species[1] | |
5; see text | |
Synonyms[2] | |
Dermatophyllum is a genus of three or four species of shrubs and small trees in the family Fabaceae. The genus is native to southwestern North America from western Texas to New Mexico and Arizona in the United States, and south through Chihuahua, Coahuila, and Nuevo León in northern Mexico. Members of the genus are commonly known as mescalbean, mescal bean, or frijolito. One of the common names of Dermatophyllum secundiflorum is Texas mountain laurel, although the name mountain laurel also refers to the very dissimilar and unrelated genus Kalmia (family Ericaceae) and the name laurel refers generally to plants in the unrelated order Laurales.
Although still commonly treated in the genus Sophora, recent genetic evidence has shown that the mescalbeans are only distantly related to the other species of Sophora.[3]
Species
Dermatophyllum comprises the following species:[2][4][1]
- Dermatophyllum arizonicum (S.Watson) Vincent—Arizona mescalbean (Arizona, Chihuahua)
- subsp. arizonicum (S.Watson) Vincent
- subsp. formosum (Kearney & Peebles) Vincent (Arizona)
- Dermatophyllum gypsophilum (B.L. Turner & A.M. Powell) Vincent—Guadalupe mescalbean (southern New Mexico, western Texas, Coahuila)
- subsp. guadalupense (B.L.Turner & A.M.Powell) Vincent
- subsp. gypsophilum
- Dermatophyllum juanhintonianum (B.L. Turner) B.L. Turner
- Dermatophyllum purpusii (Brandegee) Vincent
- Dermatophyllum secundiflorum (Ortega) Gandhi & Reveal—Texas mescalbean (Texas, New Mexico, Coahuila, Nuevo León)
Description
Dermatophyllum spp. grow to 1–11 m (3.3–36.1 ft) tall, with a trunk up to 20 cm (7.9 in) in diameter, often growing in dense
All parts of the mescalbeans are very
References
- ^ a b Dermatophyllum Scheele. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 17 August 2023.
- ^ ISSN 2153-733X.
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- ISSN 2153-733X.
- JSTOR 666531.
- ISBN 9780813366128.