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Afgekia is a small genus of large perennial climbing shrubs native to Thailand in Asia, belonging to the family Fabaceae.[1]

Afgekia
Afgekia sericea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Tribe: Millettieae
Genus: Afgekia
Carib
Species

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They are reminiscent of the related genus of Wisteria.[2]


Species


As listed by Plants of the World Online;[1]

The genus was named from the initials of Arthur Francis George Kerr (1877–1942), an Irish-born plant collector who worked in then-Siam in the early twentieth century.[5] It was first described and published in Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1927 on page 376.[1]

The genus is recognized by the United States Department of Agriculture and the Agricultural Research Service, but they only list Afgekia sericea Craib.[6]


References


  1. "Afgekia Craib | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
  2. LI, Jianhua; JIANG, Jin-Huo; FU, Cheng-Xin; TANG, Shao-Qing (January 2014). "Molecular systematics and biogeography of Wisteria inferred from nucleotide sequences of nuclear and plastid genes". Journal of Systematics and Evolution. 52 (1): 40–50. doi:10.1111/jse.12061.
  3. "NParks | Afgekia mahidoliae". www.nparks.gov.sg. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
  4. "NParks | Afgekia sericea". www.nparks.gov.sg. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
  5. Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  6. "Taxon: Afgekia sericea Craib". npgsweb.ars-grin.gov. Retrieved 29 January 2022.


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