Ceratonia

Ceratonia
Carob tree (Ceratonia siliqua)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Caesalpinioideae[1]
Genus: Ceratonia
species

Selected species

Ceratonia /ˌsɛrəˈtoʊniə/[2] is small genus of flowering trees in the pea family, Fabaceae, endemic to the Mediterranean region and the Middle East. Its best known member, the carob tree, is cultivated for its pods and has been widely introduced to regions with similar climates. The genus was long considered monotypic, but a second species, Ceratonia oreothauma, was identified in 1979 from Oman and Somalia.[3] It is in the tribe Umitzieae, subfamily Caesalpinioideae.

An obsolete name for Ceratonia was Acalis.

Fossil record

†Ceratonia emarginata fossils are known from the Miocene of Switzerland and Hungary.[4]

References

  1. ↑ The Legume Phylogeny Working Group (LPWG). (2017). "A new subfamily classification of the Leguminosae based on a taxonomically comprehensive phylogeny". Taxon. 66 (1): 44–77. doi:10.12705/661.3.
  2. ↑ Sunset Western Garden Book, 1995:606–607
  3. ↑ "Ceratonia oreothauma". D. Hillcoat, G. Lewis and B. Verdcourt Kew Bulletin Vol. 35, No. 2. 1980. JSTOR 4114570. Missing or empty |url= (help)
  4. ↑ Leguminosae species from the territory of Abkhazia by Alexandra K. Shakryl, Advances in Legume Systematics: Part 4, The Fossil Record, Ed. P.S. Herendeen & Dilcher, 1992, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, ISBN 0 947643 40 0

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