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Gleditsia
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Trees or shrubs, usually with stout, simple or branched, thorns. Leaves usually 2-pinnate on long shoots, 1-pinnate or 2-pinnate on short shoots. Leaflets often serrate. Flowers unisexual, in racemes or panicles, greenish. Bracteoles small or 0. Calyx campanulate with 3-5, subequal lobes. Petals 3-5, sessile, imbricate. Stamens 6-10. Anthers uniform. Pods ovate or elongated, straight, flattened, indehiscent or tardily dehiscent.
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Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) Stats
Specimen Records:35
Specimens with Sequences:48
Specimens with Barcodes:40
Species:6
Species With Barcodes:5
Public Records:12
Public Species:3
Public BINs:0
Gleditsia /ɡlɨˈdɪtsiə/[1] (locust) is a genus of trees in the family Fabaceae, subfamily Caesalpinioideae, native to North America and Asia. The Latin name commemorates Johann Gottlieb Gleditsch, director of the Berlin Botanical Garden, who died in 1786.
There are 12 species:
- Gleditsia amorphoides (Griseb.) Taubert
- Gleditsia aquatica Marshall - Water locust
- Gleditsia australis F. B. Forbes & Hemsley
- Gleditsia caspica Desf. - Caspian locust
- Gleditsia delavayi Franchet
- Gleditsia fera (Lour.) Merr.
- Gleditsia ferox Desf.
- Gleditsia japonica Miq. - Japanese honey locust
- Gleditsia macracantha Desf.
- Gleditsia microphylla Isely
- Gleditsia sinensis Lam. - Chinese honey locust
- Gleditsia triacanthos L. - Honey locust
- Gleditsia triacanthos inermis - Thornless honey locust
Hybrids
- Gleditsia × texana Sarg. - Texas honey locust (G. aquatica × G. triacanthos)
Medicinal use[edit]
G. sinensis is one of the 50 fundamental herbs used in Chinese herbology, where it is called zào jiá (皂荚).
References[edit]
- ^ Sunset Western Garden Book, 1995:606–607
Bibliography[edit]
- Philips, Roger. Trees of North America and Europe, Random House, Inc., New York ISBN 0-394-50259-0, 1979.
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