Flora of North America species comparison

The green links below add additional plants to the comparison table. Blue links lead to other Web sites.
enable glossary links

Chapmannia

alicia, chapmannia
Habit Herbs, perennial, [shrubs or trees], unarmed.
Stems

erect, villous.
Leaves

alternate, odd-pinnate;

stipules present;

petiolate;

leaflets 3–9, blade margins entire, surfaces pubescent.
Inflorescences

2–4-flowered, terminal and axillary, panicles;

bracts absent;

bracteoles present.
Flowers

papilionaceous;

calyx tubular, lobes 5, abaxial lobes distinct, adaxial connate nearly to apex;

corolla orange-yellow;

stamens 10, monadelphous;

anthers sub-basifixed.
Fruits

loments, sessile, subterete, abaxial suture sinuate, adaxial suture straight, linear, dehiscent, villous.
Seeds

1–3, ovoid, dull.
x

= 11.

Chapmannia
Distribution
from USDA
s Mexico; Florida; Central America (Guatemala); South America (Venezuela); Africa (Somalia); Indian Ocean Islands (Socotra)
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Species 7 (1 in the flora).

Torrey and Gray, and all botanists until 1980, described Chapmannia as having both sterile and fertile flowers; C. R. Gunn et al. (1980) have given evidence that all flowers are fertile.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 11. Author: Robert H. Mohlenbrock.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae
Subordinate taxa
C. floridana
Name authority Torrey & A. Gray: Fl. N. Amer. 1: 355. (1838)
Web links 
Unless otherwise noted, all data comes from the online version of the Flora of North America, who have made most of their content available via a Creative Commons license (CC BY 4.0).



Type/paste one or more Latin names into the boxes above; matching taxa will show up below the box as you type. You can use the up/down arrow keys to move through the list.

(If the plant you're looking for doesn't show up in the auto-complete list, that means it either isn't described in Flora of North America yet, or it's listed under a synonym. And please note that Flora of North America is still missing several plant families, including Apiaceae, Boraginaceae, and Polemoniaceae.)

Choose a data source: Flora of North America

The species comparison tool is brought to you by:
Northwest Wildflowers