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(Last Modified On 9/25/2013)
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(Last Modified On 9/25/2013)
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Genus
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CRACCA Benth.
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Contributor
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Peter S. White
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PlaceOfPublication
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Vidensk. Meddel. Dansk. Naturhist. Foren. Kj0benh. 1853: 8. 1853.
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Note
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Nomen conserv. TYPE: Cracca glandulifera Benth.
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Synonym
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Cracca L., Sp. P1. 752. 1753; Gen. P1., ed. 5. 1754. Nomen rejic. contra Cracca Benth. TYPE: Cracca villosa L. = Tephrosia villosa (L.) Pers. Not Cracca Hill, Brit. Herb. 285. 1756. TYPE: not designated, = Vicia L. Nor Cracca Medic., Vorl. Chrupf. Phys.-Okon. Ges. 2: 359. 1787. TYPE: Cracca benghalensis (L.) Medic. = Vicia benghalensis L. Benthamantha Alef., Bonplandia 10: 264. 1862. TYPE: Benthamantha glandulifera (Benth.) Alef. = Cracca glandulifera Benth. Brittonamra Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 1: 164. 1891. TYPE: Brittonamra caribaea (Jacq.) Kuntze = Cracca caribaea (Jacq.) Benth.
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Description
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Perennial herbs, sometimes shrubby, usually pubescent, at least when young. Leaves alternate, imparipinnate, petioled, the lateral leaflets more or less oppo- site, leaflets 3-many, oblong or elliptic, pubescent, often larger toward the tip of the leaf, petioluled, stipellate, stipulate. Inflorescence of axillary racemes, usually relatively few flowered, pedicels solitary in setaceous bracts. Flowers with cam-
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Habit
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herbs
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Cracca Benth. is a genus of about 10 species
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Distribution
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distributed from the southwestern United States to Argentina and also in the West Indies.
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Note
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The fruits, which are linear and regularly septate within to form more or less square chambers, are distinctive. Differences with Tephrosia Pers. are discussed under that genus. The nomenclatural confusion among Cracca Benth., Cracca L., Cracca Hill, Cracca Medic., Benthamantha Alef., and Brittonamra Kuntze has also been discussed in the treatment of Tephrosia Pers. Two applications of the name Cracca were those of Hill (1756) and Medic. (1787), both applying the name to species of Vicia L. (1753). Cracca L. (1753) (=Tephrosia Pers., nomen conserv.) created confusion because it came into general use for Tephrosia species in the mid- and late 1800's. During this time, Benthamantha Alef. (1862) and Britton- amra Kuntze (1891) were proposed for the species of Cracca Benth. Bentha- mantha Alef. created nomenclatural confusion since it achieved popularity in the years between its publication and 1930 or so. The conservation of Cracca Benth. (1853) over Cracca L. (1753) resolved the situation since Cracca Benth. is older than both Benthamantha Alef. and Brittonamra Kuntze.
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