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Ceratonia

Genus of legumes

Summary

Genus of legumes

  • Ceratonia oreothauma Hillc., G.P.Lewis & Verdc.
  • Ceratonia siliqua L.
  • †Ceratonia emarginata
  • Ceratia Adans. (1763)
  • Siliqua Duhamel (1755), nom. superfl.

Ceratonia , also known as carobs, is a small genus of flowering trees in the pea family, Fabaceae, endemic to the Mediterranean region and the Middle East. Its best known member is the carob tree (Ceratonia siliqua), which is cultivated for its edible pods and has been widely introduced to regions with similar climates. The genus was long considered monotypic, but a second species, Ceratonia oreothauma, was identified in 1979 from Oman and Somalia. The genus is in subfamily Caesalpinioideae and tribe Umtizieae.

An obsolete name for Ceratonia was Acalis.

Fossil record

†Ceratonia emarginata fossils are known from the Miocene of Switzerland and Hungary.

References

Images

Image:Carruba.jpg|Fruit Image:Ceratonia siliqua, total.jpg|Tree Image:Johannisbrotbaum_bluete.jpg|Flowers Image:Garroves.JPG|Fruits

References

  1. [https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:21972-1 ''Ceratonia'' L.] ''[[Plants of the World Online]]''. Retrieved 15 August 2023.
  2. ''Sunset Western Garden Book,'' 1995:606–607
  3. (1980). "A New Species of Ceratonia (Leguminosae-Caesalpinioideae) from Arabia and the Somali Republic". Kew Bulletin.
  4. Leguminosae species from the territory of [[Abkhazia]] by Alexandra K. Shakryl, Advances in Legume Systematics: Part 4, The Fossil Record, Ed. P.S. Herendeen & Dilcher, 1992, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, {{ISBN. 0 947643 40 0
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