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Orbexilum Lupinellus
''Orbexilum'', commonly called leather-root, is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family (Fabaceae). They are native to North America, where they are found in the United States and Mexico, south to Chiapas. This genus can be distinguished from other genera in the Psoraleeae by its "thick glabrous pod walls that are distinctively rugose and by [a] calyx that is scarcely accrescent." Taxonomy The genus was described by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque in 1832, with the type species ''O. latifolia'', moved from ''Psoralea''. (''O. latifolia'' is now considered a Synonym (taxonomy), synonym of ''O. onobrychis''.) Rafinesque differentiated ''Orbexilum'' from ''Psoralea'' largely on the basis of features of the Sepal, calyx. Species ''Orbexilum'' comprises the following species: * ''Orbexilum chiapasanum'' B.L.Turner * ''Orbexilum lupinellus'' (Michx.) Isely * †''Orbexilum macrophyllum'' (Rowlee) Rydb. – bigleaf scurfpea * ''Orbexilum melanocarpum'' (Benth.) Ry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constantine Samuel Rafinesque
Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz (; 22 October 178318 September 1840) was a French early 19th-century polymath born near Constantinople in the Ottoman Empire and self-educated in France. He traveled as a young man in the United States, ultimately settling in Ohio in 1815, where he made notable contributions to botany, zoology, and the study of Mound Builders, prehistoric earthworks in North America. He also contributed to the study of ancient Mesoamerican languages, Mesoamerican linguistics, in addition to work he had already completed in Europe. Rafinesque was an eccentric and erratic genius. He was an autodidact, who excelled in various fields of knowledge, as a zoologist, botanist, writer and Polyglot (person), polyglot. He wrote prolifically on such diverse topics as anthropology, biology, geology, and linguistics, but was honored in none of these fields during his lifetime. Indeed, he was an outcast in the American scientific community and his submissions were automati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
