Butea
| Butea | |
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| Butea monosperma | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Subfamily: | Faboideae |
| Tribe: | Phaseoleae |
| Genus: | Butea Roxb. ex Willd. |
| Type species | |
| Butea monosperma (Lamarck) Kuntze | |
| Species | |
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| Synonyms | |
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Butea is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the pea family, Fabaceae. It is sometimes considered to have only two species, B. monosperma and B. superba,[1] or is expanded to include four or five species.[2]
Butea monosperma is used for timber, resin, fodder, medicine, and dye.
Butea is also a host to the Lac insect, which produces natural lacquer.[3]
Taxonomy
Butea is named after John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute (1713-1792), member of parliament, prime minister for one year, and a patron of botany.[4] William Roxburgh erected the genus Butea in 1795, but it became a nomen invalidum. Carl Willdenow validated the name Butea in 1802.
Species
Forty-two names have been published in Butea,[5] but forty of these are either synonyms or names of species that have been transferred to other genera.[3]
- B. braamiana
- B. buteiformis (Megalotropis buteiformis, Meizotropis buteiformis)
- B. monosperma (syn. Butea frondosa, Erythrina monosperma): Flame of the Forest, ####### Teak, Pâlāsh
- B. superba (Plaso superba, Rudolphia superba)
References
- ↑ Gwilym Lewis, Brian Schrire, Barbara MacKinder, and Mike Lock. 2005. Legumes of the World. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: Richmond, England.
- ↑ Dezhao Chen; Dianxiang Zhang & Mats Thulin. "Flora of China Online". Retrieved 11 October 2014.
|chapter=ignored (help) - 1 2 Munivenkatappa Sanjappa. 1987. "Revision of the genera Butea Roxb. ex Willd. and Meizotropis Voigt (Fabaceae)". Bulletin of the Botanical Survey of India 29:199-225.
- ↑ Umberto Quattrocchi. 2000. CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names volume I. CRC Press: Boca Raton; New York; Washington,DC;, USA. London, UK. ISBN 978-0-8493-2675-2.
- ↑ Butea in International Plant Names Index. (see External links below).
External links
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Data related to Butea at Wikispecies -
Media related to Butea at Wikimedia Commons - Butea At: IPNI
- Erythrina monosperma In: Encyclopédie Méthodique. Botanique