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Leucaena

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Leucaena is a genus of flowering plants in the mimosoid clade of the subfamily Caesalpinioideae of the legume family Fabaceae. [1]

66 relations: Americas, Anthelmintic, Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, Barrel of oil equivalent, Belize, Caesalpinioideae, Central America, Charcoal, Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal, El Salvador, Eudicots, Fabaceae, Fabales, Firewood, Flower, Flowering plant, Fodder, Fruit, George Bentham, Greek language, Green manure, Guatemala, Hair loss, Hendrik de Wit, Honduras, Ignatz Urban, Indonesia, Infertility, International Association for Plant Taxonomy, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, John Donnell Smith, Joseph Nelson Rose, Legume, Leucaena cuspidata, Leucaena greggii, Leucaena involucrata, Leucaena lempirana, Leucaena leucocephala, Leucaena magnifica, Leucaena matudae, Leucaena pueblana, Leucaena retusa, Leucaena salvadorensis, Livestock, Lysiloma latisiliquum, Medicinal plants, Mexico, Mimosine, Mimosoideae, Nathaniel Lord Britton, ..., Nicaragua, Paul Carpenter Standley, Peru, Plant, Rosids, Ruminant, Salt, Schleinitzia fosbergii, Seed, Sereno Watson, Shrub, Soil conservation, Sumatra, Texas, Tree, United States. Expand index (16 more) »

Americas

The Americas (also collectively called America)"America." The Oxford Companion to the English Language.

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Anthelmintic

Anthelmintics or antihelminthics are a group of antiparasitic drugs that expel parasitic worms (helminths) and other internal parasites from the body by either stunning or killing them and without causing significant damage to the host.

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Augustin Pyramus de Candolle

Augustin Pyramus de Candolle also spelled Augustin Pyrame de Candolle (4 February 17789 September 1841) was a Swiss botanist.

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Barrel of oil equivalent

The barrel of oil equivalent (BOE) is a unit of energy based on the approximate energy released by burning one barrel (42 U.S. gallons or 158.9873 litres) of crude oil.

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Belize

Belize, formerly British Honduras, is an independent Commonwealth realm on the eastern coast of Central America.

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Caesalpinioideae

Caesalpinioideae is a botanical name at the rank of subfamily, placed in the large family Fabaceae or Leguminosae.

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Central America

Central America (América Central, Centroamérica) is the southernmost, isthmian portion of the North American continent, which connects with the South American continent on the southeast.

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Charcoal

Charcoal is the lightweight black carbon and ash residue hydrocarbon produced by removing water and other volatile constituents from animal and vegetation substances.

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Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal

Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal (27 November 1794, Xanten – 12 October 1866, Halle) was a German botanist.

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El Salvador

El Salvador, officially the Republic of El Salvador (República de El Salvador, literally "Republic of The Savior"), is the smallest and the most densely populated country in Central America.

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Eudicots

The eudicots, Eudicotidae or eudicotyledons are a clade of flowering plants that had been called tricolpates or non-magnoliid dicots by previous authors.

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Fabaceae

The Fabaceae or Leguminosae, Article 18.5 states: "The following names, of long usage, are treated as validly published:....Leguminosae (nom. alt.: Fabaceae; type: Faba Mill.);...

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Fabales

The Fabales are an order of flowering plants included in the rosid group of the eudicots in the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group II classification system.

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Firewood

Firewood is any wooden material that is gathered and used for fuel.

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Flower

A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Magnoliophyta, also called angiosperms).

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Flowering plant

The flowering plants, also known as angiosperms, Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants, with 416 families, approximately 13,164 known genera and c. 295,383 known species.

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Fodder

Fodder, a type of animal feed, is any agricultural foodstuff used specifically to feed domesticated livestock, such as cattle, rabbits, sheep, horses, chickens and pigs.

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Fruit

In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants (also known as angiosperms) formed from the ovary after flowering.

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George Bentham

George Bentham (22 September 1800 – 10 September 1884) was an English botanist, described by the weed botanist Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century".

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Greek language

Greek (Modern Greek: ελληνικά, elliniká, "Greek", ελληνική γλώσσα, ellinikí glóssa, "Greek language") is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece and other parts of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea.

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Green manure

In agriculture, green manure is created by leaving uprooted or sown crop parts to wither on a field so that they serve as a mulch and soil amendment.

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Guatemala

Guatemala, officially the Republic of Guatemala (República de Guatemala), is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize to the northeast, the Caribbean to the east, Honduras to the east and El Salvador to the southeast.

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Hair loss

Hair loss, also known as alopecia or baldness, refers to a loss of hair from part of the head or body.

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Hendrik de Wit

Hendrik (Henk) Cornelis Dirk de Wit (24 October 1909 – 16 March 1999) was a Dutch systematic botanist who contributed significantly to the knowledge of the Aroid genera Cryptocoryne and Lagenandra.

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Honduras

Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras (República de Honduras), is a republic in Central America.

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Ignatz Urban

Ignatz Urban (7 January 1848 – 7 January 1931) was a German botanist.

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Indonesia

Indonesia (or; Indonesian), officially the Republic of Indonesia (Republik Indonesia), is a transcontinental unitary sovereign state located mainly in Southeast Asia, with some territories in Oceania.

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Infertility

Infertility is the inability of a person, animal or plant to reproduce by natural means.

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International Association for Plant Taxonomy

The International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT) promotes an understanding of plant biodiversity, facilitates international communication of research between botanists, and oversees matters of uniformity and stability in plant names.

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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck (1 August 1744 – 18 December 1829), often known simply as Lamarck, was a French naturalist.

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John Donnell Smith

Captain John Donnell Smith (June 5, 1829 – December 2, 1928) of Baltimore, Maryland was a biologist and taxonomist.

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Joseph Nelson Rose

Joseph Nelson Rose (January 11, 1862 – May 4, 1928) was an American botanist.

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Legume

A legume is a plant or its fruit or seed in the family Fabaceae (or Leguminosae).

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Leucaena cuspidata

Leucaena cuspidata is a species of legume in the Fabaceae family.

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Leucaena greggii

Leucaena greggii is a species of legume in the Fabaceae family.

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Leucaena involucrata

Leucaena involucrata is a species of legume in the Fabaceae family.

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Leucaena lempirana

Leucaena lempirana is a species of legume in the Fabaceae family.

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Leucaena leucocephala

Leucaena leucocephala is a small fast-growing mimosoid tree native to southern Mexico and northern Central America (Belize and Guatemala) and is now naturalized throughout the tropics.

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Leucaena magnifica

Leucaena magnifica is a species of legume in the Fabaceae family.

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Leucaena matudae

Leucaena matudae is a species of legume in the Fabaceae family.

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Leucaena pueblana

Leucaena pueblana is a species of legume in the Fabaceae family.

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Leucaena retusa

Leucaena retusa is a species of flowering plant in the legume family known by the common names littleleaf leadtree, goldenball leadtree, wahoo tree, and lemonball.

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Leucaena salvadorensis

Leucaena salvadorensis is a species of legume in the Fabaceae family.

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Livestock

Livestock are domesticated animals raised in an agricultural setting to produce labor and commodities such as meat, eggs, milk, fur, leather, and wool.

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Lysiloma latisiliquum

Lysiloma latisiliquum, commonly known as false tamarind or wild tamarind, is a species of tree in the pea family, Fabaceae, that is native to southern Florida in the United States, The Bahamas, the Caribbean, southern Mexico, and northern Central America.

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Medicinal plants

Medicinal plants, also called medicinal herbs, have been discovered and used in traditional medicine practices since prehistoric times.

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Mexico

Mexico (México; Mēxihco), officially called the United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) is a federal republic in the southern portion of North America.

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Mimosine

Mimosine or leucenol is a toxic non-protein amino acid chemically similar to tyrosine, that was first isolated from Mimosa pudica.

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Mimosoideae

The Mimosoideae are trees, herbs, lianas, and shrubs that mostly grow in tropical and subtropical climates.

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Nathaniel Lord Britton

Nathaniel Lord Britton (January 15, 1859 – June 25, 1934) was an American botanist and taxonomist who co-founded the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx, New York.

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Nicaragua

Nicaragua, officially the Republic of Nicaragua, is the largest country in the Central American isthmus, bordered by Honduras to the north, the Caribbean to the east, Costa Rica to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west.

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Paul Carpenter Standley

Paul Carpenter Standley (1884 in Avalon, Missouri – June 2, 1963 in Tegucigalpa, Honduras) was an American botanist.

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Peru

Peru (Perú; Piruw Republika; Piruw Suyu), officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America.

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Plant

Plants are mainly multicellular, predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae.

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Rosids

The rosids are members of a large clade (monophyletic group) of flowering plants, containing about 70,000 species, more than a quarter of all angiosperms.

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Ruminant

Ruminants are mammals that are able to acquire nutrients from plant-based food by fermenting it in a specialized stomach prior to digestion, principally through microbial actions.

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Salt

Salt, table salt or common salt is a mineral composed primarily of sodium chloride (NaCl), a chemical compound belonging to the larger class of salts; salt in its natural form as a crystalline mineral is known as rock salt or halite.

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Schleinitzia fosbergii

Schleinitzia fosbergii is a species of flowering plant in the legume family known by the common name strand tangantangan.

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Seed

A seed is an embryonic plant enclosed in a protective outer covering.

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Sereno Watson

Sereno Watson (December 1, 1826 in East Windsor Hill, Connecticut – March 9, 1892 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an American botanist.

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Shrub

A shrub or bush is a small to medium-sized woody plant.

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Soil conservation

Soil conservation is the preventing of soil loss from erosion or reduced fertility caused by over usage, acidification, salinization or other chemical soil contamination.

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Sumatra

Sumatra is an Indonesian island in Southeast Asia that is part of the Sunda Islands.

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the second largest state in the United States by both area and population.

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Tree

In botany, a tree is a perennial plant with an elongated stem, or trunk, supporting branches and leaves in most species.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Redirects here:

Caudoleucaena, Lead tree, Leadtree, Leucaena (plant), Ryncholeucaena.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leucaena

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