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Pterocarpus

Index Pterocarpus

Pterocarpus is a pantropical genus of trees in the family Fabaceae. [1]

40 relations: American Journal of Botany, Ancient Greek, Binomial nomenclature, Burl, Chinese furniture, Dalbergieae, Dye, Eudicots, Fabaceae, Fabales, Faboideae, Flowering plant, Genus, Germplasm Resources Information Network, Henry A. Wallace Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Herbalism, Latin, Legume, Marimba, Monophyly, Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Pantropical, Plant, Pterocarpin, Pterocarpus angolensis, Pterocarpus brenanii, Pterocarpus dalbergioides, Pterocarpus erinaceus, Pterocarpus indicus, Pterocarpus macrocarpus, Pterocarpus marsupium, Pterocarpus rotundifolius, Pterocarpus santalinoides, Pterocarpus santalinus, Pterocarpus soyauxii, Rosewood, Rosids, South African Journal of Botany, Species, Xylophone.

American Journal of Botany

The American Journal of Botany is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal which covers all aspects of plant biology.

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Ancient Greek

The Ancient Greek language includes the forms of Greek used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around the 9th century BC to the 6th century AD.

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Binomial nomenclature

Binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system") also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, both of which use Latin grammatical forms, although they can be based on words from other languages.

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Burl

A burl (American English) or bur or burr (UK English) is a tree growth in which the grain has grown in a deformed manner.

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Chinese furniture

The forms of Chinese furniture evolved along three distinct lineages which dates back to 1000 BC, based on frame and panel, yoke and rack (based on post and rail seen in architecture) and bamboo construction techniques.

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Dalbergieae

The tribe Dalbergieae is an early-branching clade within the flowering plant subfamily Faboideae (or Papilionaceae).

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Dye

A dye is a colored substance that has an affinity to the substrate to which it is being applied.

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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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Faboideae

The Faboideae are a subfamily of the flowering plant family Fabaceae or Leguminosae.

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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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Genus

A genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology.

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Germplasm Resources Information Network

Germplasm Resources Information Network or GRIN is an online USDA National Genetic Resources Program software project to comprehensively manage the computer database for the holdings of all plant germplasm collected by the National Plant Germplasm System.

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Henry A. Wallace Beltsville Agricultural Research Center

The Henry A. Wallace Beltsville Agricultural Research Center (BARC) is a unit of the United States Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service.

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Herbalism

Herbalism (also herbal medicine or phytotherapy) is the study of botany and use of plants intended for medicinal purposes or for supplementing a diet.

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Latin

Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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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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Marimba

The marimba is a percussion instrument consisting of a set of wooden bars struck with mallets called knobs to produce musical tones.

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Monophyly

In cladistics, a monophyletic group, or clade, is a group of organisms that consists of all the descendants of a common ancestor.

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Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin

Nikolaus Joseph Freiherr von Jacquin or Baron Nikolaus von Jacquin (16 February 172726 October 1817) was a scientist who studied medicine, chemistry and botany.

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Pantropical

A pantropical ("all tropics") distribution is one which covers tropical regions of both hemispheres.

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Plant

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

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Pterocarpin

Pterocarpin is a pterocarpan found in the Fabaceae species Baphia nitida, Ononis viscosa subsp.

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Pterocarpus angolensis

Pterocarpus angolensis (African teak, wild teak, Kiaat, Morôtô, Mokwa, Mutondo, Mukwa, Mubvamaropa, Umvangazi) is a species of Pterocarpus native to southern Africa, in Angola, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zaire, Zimbabwe,and Zambia.

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Pterocarpus brenanii

Pterocarpus brenanii is a species of legume in the Fabaceae family.

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Pterocarpus dalbergioides

Pterocarpus dalbergioides, the Andaman padauk, Andaman redwood or East Indian mahogany, is a species of legume in the Fabaceae family.

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Pterocarpus erinaceus

The tree Pterocarpus erinaceus is native to Sahelian region of West Africa and is used for fuel wood, for medicinal purposes, as a woodworking material, and that is useful as a nitrogen-fixing plant that helps to improve nutrient-depleted farming land.

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Pterocarpus indicus

Pterocarpus indicus (commonly known as Amboyna wood, Malay padauk, Papua New Guinea rosewood, Philippine mahogany, Andaman redwood, Burmese rosewood, narra or Pashu padauk) is a species of Pterocarpus native to southeastern Asia, northern Australasia, and the western Pacific Ocean islands, in Cambodia, southernmost China, East Timor, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, the Ryukyu Islands, the Solomon Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam.

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Pterocarpus macrocarpus

Pterocarpus macrocarpus, or the Burma padauk, (Burmese: မြန်မာပိတောက်) is a tree native to the seasonal tropical forests of southeastern Asia: in Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam.

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Pterocarpus marsupium

Pterocarpus marsupium, also known as Malabar kino, Indian kino tree or Vijayasar, is a medium to large, deciduous tree that can grow up to tall.

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Pterocarpus rotundifolius

Pterocarpus rotundifolius, the round-leaved bloodwood, is a species of fabaceous tree that is native to mesic and well-watered woodlands of Africa south of the equator.

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Pterocarpus santalinoides

Pterocarpus santalinoides is a tree species in the legume family (biology) (Fabaceae); it is locally known as mututi.

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Pterocarpus santalinus

Pterocarpus santalinus, with the common names red sanders, red sandalwood, and saunderswood, is a species of Pterocarpus endemic to the southern Eastern Ghats mountain range of South India.

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Pterocarpus soyauxii

Pterocarpus soyauxii, the African padauk or African coralwood, is a species of Pterocarpus in the family Fabaceae, native to central and tropical west Africa, from Nigeria east to Congo-Kinshasa and south to Angola.

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Rosewood

Rosewood refers to any of a number of richly hued timbers, often brownish with darker veining, but found in many different hues.

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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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South African Journal of Botany

The South African Journal of Botany (Afrikaans title: Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir plantkunde) is a bimonthly peer reviewed scientific journal covering all aspects of botany as related to Southern Africa.

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Species

In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank, as well as a unit of biodiversity, but it has proven difficult to find a satisfactory definition.

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Xylophone

The xylophone (from the Greek words ξύλον—xylon, "wood" + φωνή—phōnē, "sound, voice", meaning "wooden sound") is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars struck by mallets.

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Amphymenium, Narra tree, Padauk, Padauk tree, Padouk, Paduak, Phellocarpus.

References

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

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