Antopetitia

Antopetitia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Genus: Antopetitia
A.Rich. (1840)
Species:
A. abyssinica
Binomial name
Antopetitia abyssinica
A.Rich. (1840)
Synonyms[1]
  • Ornithopodium coriandrinum (Hochst. & Steud. ex Fielding & Gardner) Kuntze (1891)
  • Ornithopus coriandrinus Hochst. & Steud. ex Fielding & Gardner (1844)

Antopetitia is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It contains a single species, Antopetitia abyssinica, an herbaceous annual native to sub-Saharan Africa, ranging from Nigeria to Eritrea and Mozambique.[2] It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae.[3]

Members within the genus bear odd-pinnately compound leaves with five to eleven leaflets. Stipules are reduced to glands. Inflorescences are pedunculate umbels borne in axillae. Flowers each have a gamosepalous but toothed calyx and a corolla of petals each divided into a claw and limb of equal or near-equal length. Each fruit consists of two to five one-seeded segments, each of which dehisce into two valves upon maturity.[citation needed]

  1. ^ Antopetitia abyssinica A.Rich. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 10 August 2023.
  2. ^ Antopetitia A.Rich. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 10 August 2023.
  3. ^ "Classification for Kingdom Plantae Down to Genus Antopetitia A. Rich". USDA. Retrieved 15 June 2019.