Flora of North America species comparison

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Maackia

maackia
Habit Trees [shrubs], unarmed.
Stems

erect, pubescent or glabrous.
Leaves

alternate, odd-pinnate;

axillary buds exposed;

stipules absent;

petiolate;

leaflets (7 or)9–13, opposite or subopposite [alternate], blade margins entire, surfaces glabrous [pubescent].
Inflorescences

[15–]50–100+-flowered, terminal, racemes, simple or compound, erect;

bracts absent;

bracteoles present.
Flowers

papilionaceous;

calyx campanulate, lobes 4 or 5;

corolla white, often yellowish in age, callus present at point where banner reflexes;

stamens 10, connate proximally;

anthers dorsifixed.
Fruits

legumes, sessile, compressed laterally, straight or curved, lanceolate, winged along one suture, dehiscent, pubescent.
Seeds

1–3[–5], yellow, ellipsoidal.
x

= 9, [10].

Maackia
Distribution
e Asia (China, Japan, Korea, e Russia, Taiwan); temperate areas [Introduced, North Carolina]
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Species 10 (1 in the flora).

Some Maackia species have been used as ornamental landscape trees.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 11. Authors: Michael A. Vincent, Carolyn K. Levings.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae
Subordinate taxa
M. buergeri
Name authority Maximowicz & Ruprecht: Bull. Cl. Phys.-Math. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint-Pétersbourg 15: 128, 143. (1856)
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