Published July 19, 2022 | Version v1
Taxonomic treatment Open

Arachis dardanii Krapovickas & Gregory 1994

  • 1. Departamento de Geografia - Universidade Federal de Campina Grande: - Campus I, Centro de Humanidades. Unidade Acadêmica de Geografia-UAG, R. Aprígio Veloso, 882, Universitário, Campina Grande, PB, 58428 - 830, Brasil.
  • 2. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Conservação - Universidade Estadual da Paraíba - UEPB, Departamento de Biologia, Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Av. das Baraúnas 351, Campus Universitário, Bairro Universitário, Campina Grande, PB, 58429 - 500, Brasil.
  • 3. Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Departamento de Biologia, Laboratório de Taxonomia Vegetal (LATAX), Rua Dom Manoel de Medeiros, s / n, Campus Dois Irmãos, 52.171 - 900, Recife, PE, Brasil.
  • 4. Departamento de Sistemática e Ecologia- Universidade Federal da Paraíba - Campus I, Centro de Ciências Exatas e da Natureza, Jardim Universitário, Castelo Branco, João Pessoa, PB, 58051 - 900, Brasil. & Author for correspondence: rbotânico @ gmail. com

Description

4. Arachis dardanii Krapovickas & Gregory (1994: 76–79 f)

Herbs, branches pilose, inermous. Nectary absent. Stipules lateral, lanceolate, adnate to the petiole. Leaves paripinnate, 4–foliolate, leaflets opposite, obovate, venation brochidodromous, translucid punctuation absent. Inflorescence spikes, axillary. Flowers sessile flowers, zygomorphic, diplostemonous; calyx gamosepalous, sepals 5, corolla dialypetalous, papilionaceous, yellow, petals 5; androecium monadelphous, homodinamous, anthers longitudinal; ovary superior, sessile, pauciovulate. Fruit loment, stipitate, elliptic, cylindrical, margin straight, epicarp glabrous, yellow. Seeds ovoid, turgid, coat yellow, hilum basal.

Examined material:— BRAZIL. Paraíba: Maturéia, Pico do Jabre, 1197 m elev., 14 August 2019, fl. & fr., Aureliana Gomes 3004 (HACAM).

Distribution and ecology: —The species is endemic to Brazil, more precisely from the Caatinga domains and can also be found in the Cerrado and Atlantic Rainforest (Córdula et al. 2008), with records in the Northeast (AL, BA, CE, MA, PB, PE, PI, RN, SE) and Central-West (GO) (Flora of Brazil 2020).

Phenology: —Registered with flowers and fruits in August.

Taxonomic discussion:— Arachis dardanii can be recognized by the herbaceous habit, stipule adnate with petiole, 4-foliolate leaflets, axillary spike inflorescence, sessile flower, yellow papilionaceous corolla, and the yellow loment fruit. This species is popularly known as amendoim de carcará.

Notes

Published as part of Gomes, Aureliana Santos, Rodrigues, Erimágna De Morais, Moura, Débora Coelho, Melo, José Iranildo Miranda De, Ribeiro, Rayane De Tasso Moreira & Queiroz, Rubens Teixeira De, 2022, Fabaceae Lindl. in a Conservation Unit in the Semi-Arid Region of Paraíba, Brazil, pp. 17-41 in Phytotaxa 555 (1) on page 23, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.555.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/6875635

Files

Files (2.0 kB)

Name Size Download all
md5:9a242b051e96d40ed2360a56bdf94573
2.0 kB Download

System files (10.9 kB)

Name Size Download all
md5:94105019911fc72606172702e986da75
10.9 kB Download

Linked records

Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
HACAM
Event date
2019-08-14
Family
Fabaceae
Genus
Arachis
Kingdom
Plantae
Order
Fabales
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Scientific name authorship
Krapovickas & Gregory
Species
dardanii
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
2019-08-14
Taxonomic concept label
Arachis dardanii Krapovickas, 1994 sec. Gomes, Rodrigues, Moura, Melo, Ribeiro & Queiroz, 2022

References

  • Krapovickas, A. C. & Gregory, W. C. (1994) Arachis dardanii Krapov. & W. C. Greg. Bonplandia (Corrientes) 8: 76.
  • Cordula, E., Queiroz, L. P. & Alves, M. (2008) Checklist da flora de Mirandiba, Pernambuco: Leguminosae. Rodriguesia 59: 597 - 602. https: // doi. org / 10.1590 / 2175 - 7860200859313