Antopetitia

Antopetitia is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It contains a single species, Antopetitia abyssinica, an herbaceous annual native to sub-Saharan Africa, ranging from Nigeria to Eritrea and Mozambique.[2] It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae.[3]

Antopetitia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Genus: Antopetitia
A.Rich. (1840)
Species:
A. abyssinica
Binomial name
Antopetitia abyssinica
A.Rich. (1840)
Synonyms[1]
  • Ornithopodium coriandrinum (Hochst. & Steud. ex Fielding & Gardner) Kuntze (1891)
  • Ornithopus coriandrinus Hochst. & Steud. ex Fielding & Gardner (1844)

Members within the genus bear odd-pinnately compound leaves with five to eleven leaflets. Stipules are reduced to glands. Inflorescences are pedunculate umbels borne in axillae. Flowers each have a gamosepalous but toothed calyx and a corolla of petals each divided into a claw and limb of equal or near-equal length. Each fruit consists of two to five one-seeded segments, each of which dehisce into two valves upon maturity.

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References
  1. Antopetitia abyssinica A.Rich. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 10 August 2023.
  2. Antopetitia A.Rich. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 10 August 2023.
  3. "Classification for Kingdom Plantae Down to Genus Antopetitia A. Rich". USDA. Retrieved 15 June 2019.
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