Loteae

Left: vaginal Kronwicke ( Coronilla vaginalis ) and right: Colorful Kronwicke ( Securigera varia), illustration.

Loteae is a tribe in the subfamily of the Fabaceae ( Faboideae ) within the legume family ( Fabaceae ). The species grow mostly in temperate regions.

• 3.1 Notes and references

Description

Appearance and leaves

There are annual to perennial herbaceous plants, often woody something, or there are subshrubs to shrubs.

The alternate and usually two lines arranged leaves are stalked. The unpaired or finger-shaped pinnate leaf blades usually have three or five to many, often only one or two leaflets. The leaflets are always entire. Rarely, the leaf blades are simple and can then be lobed. The stipules are free or adherent to the base of the petioles and often possess glands are reduced to glands.

Inflorescences and flowers

The flowers are usually laterally over more or less long Blütenstandsschäften in doldigen or part capitate inflorescences, which rarely solitary flowers are reduced. There may be herbaceous bracts. The bracts are usually small and inconspicuous and are typically (if this is so in the stipules ) converted to glands or missing can. Bracts usually absent.

The hermaphrodite flowers are zygomorphic and fünfzählig double perianth. The five sepals are fused bell-shaped or tubular. The five petals are together in the typical Schmetterlingsblütler form. The flag narrows toward the bottom or nailed and may have thickened inwardly folded edges. Of the ten stamens are fused nine Roehrig, one is free or is connected during development with the other closed into a tube. The stamens are spreading upwards. The anthers are all the same. The single carpel is upper constant. The stylus is smooth or papillose, usually glabrous on the whole length, but sometimes hairy at the scar tissue around.

Fruit and seeds

The legumes open at maturity zweiklappig or remain closed or broken in closed constant or opening parts. The seeds have a smooth surface.

• Legumes

Hymenocarpos circinnatus

Sarradella ( Ornithopus sativus )

Securigera Securidaca

System

The Tribe Loteae 1825 established by Augustin de Candolle Pyrame in Prodromus systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis, 2, p 214. A synonym for Loteae DC. is Coronilleae Adans .. The former tribe Coronilleae was in the tribe Loteae sl incorporated.

Per Lassen 1989 subtribes Coronillinae processed while the genera Coronilla, Hippocrepis and Securigera reorganized and distinguished from one another. The Strauchkronwicke Coronilla emerus L. was placed in the genus Let Hippocrepis as Hippocrepis emerus (L.), for example.

There are about 16 to 18 genera with about 270 species in the tribe Loteae:

• Kidney vetch ( Anthyllis L., Syn: Acanthyllis Pomel, Aspalathoides ( DC.) K.Koch, Cornicina Boiss. ): The approximately 24 to 30 species are found in Europe, Nordarfrika and disseminated in the Middle East.
• Antopetitia A.Rich. Contains only one type: Antopetitia abyssinica A.Rich. It occurs in Africa.

• Hymenocarpos circinnatus (L.) Savi: It is widespread in the Mediterranean.

• Kebirita roudairei ( Bonnet ) Kramina & DDSokoloff: It thrives in the Sahara.

• Podolotus hosackioides Benth. It occurs in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran.

• Tripodion tetraphyllum (L.) Fourr. It is widespread in the Mediterranean.

Swell

• Zhi Wei, Tatiana E. Kramina & Dmitry D. Sokoloff: Loteae in the Flora of China, Volume 10, 2010, pp. 316-319: text Registered as printed work. (Section Description and systematics)
• GJ Allan, J. Mark Porter: Tribal delimitation and phylogenetic relationships of Loteae and Coronilleae ( Faboideae: Fabaceae ) with special reference to Lotus: evidence from nuclear ribosomal ITS sequences. In: American Journal of Botany, Volume 87, No. 12, 2000, pp. 1871-1881: Full text in HTML format.