Vachellia
See also: vachellia
Translingual
Etymology
From English Vachell (surname) + -ia, after Rev. John Harvey Vachell (1798-1839), chaplain to the British East India Company in Macao from 1825-1836 and a plant collector in China.[1]
Proper noun
Vachellia f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Fabaceae – the vachellias; certain plants closely related to acacias.
Usage notes
Prior to the 17th International Botanical Conference, 2005, species in Vachellia were placed in the related genus Acacia.[2]
Hypernyms
- (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, rosids, fabids – clades; Fabales – order; Fabaceae – family; Mimosoideae - subfamily; Acacieae - tribe
Hyponyms
- (genus): Vachellia farnesiana (sweet acacia, needle bush) - type species; for other species see Vachellia on WikispeciesWikispecies or Vachellia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Descendants
- → English: vachellia
- → Russian: вахе́лия (vaxélija)
References
- Vachellia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Vachellia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Category:Vachellia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- Vachellia at USDA Plants database
- ^ http://www.calflora.net/botanicalnames/pageV.html
- ^ 2012, Simon G. Haberle, Bruno David (editors), Peopled Landscapes: Archaeological and Biogeographic Approaches to Landscapes, ANU E Press, page 207.