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Fabaceae

Pictetia

Pictetia aculeata (Vahl) Urb.

First published in Symb. Antill. 2: 294 (1900)

This species is accepted

The native range of this species is Hispaniola to Virgin Islands. It is a shrub or tree and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

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Native to:

Dominican Republic, Haiti, Leeward Is., Puerto Rico

Homotypic Synonyms

Robinia aculeata Vahl in H.West, Bidr. Beskr. Ste Croix: 227 (1793)

Heterotypic Synonyms

Aeschynomene aristata Jacq. in Pl. Hort. Schoenbr. 1: 59 (1797)
Ormocarpum aristatum (Jacq.) Desv. in Mém. Soc. Linn. Paris 4: 308 (1826)
Pictetia aristata (Jacq.) DC. in Ann. Sci. Nat. (Paris) 4: 94 (1825)
Pictetia jussiaei DC. in Ann. Sci. Nat. (Paris) 4: 94 (1825)
Pictetia squamata (Vahl) DC. in Ann. Sci. Nat. (Paris) 4: 94 (1825)
Poiretia aristata (Jacq.) Desv. in J. Bot. Agric. 1: 122 (1813)
Robinia squamata Vahl in Symb. Bot. 3: 88 (1794)
Robinia squamosa Poir. in J.B.A.M.de Lamarck, Encycl. 6: 224 (1804), orth. var.

Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Streptophyta
Class Equisetopsida
Subclass Magnoliidae
Order
Fabales

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Family
Fabaceae

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Genus
Pictetia

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Species
Pictetia aculeata

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POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.

Publications used to compile the distribution and map:

Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

IPNI - The International Plant Names Index

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Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1
- Angiosperm Threat Predictions
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IUCN Categories
- IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
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International Legume Database and Information Service
- International Legume Database and Information Service (ILDIS) V10.39 Nov 2011
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
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