View source for Piscidia

{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Piscidia
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Syst. Nat. ed.
|place=10, 2: 1151, 1155, 1376. 1759
|year=1759
|other_info_on_pub=name conserved
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Ichthyomethia
|authority=P. Browne
|rank=genus
}}
|hierarchy=Fabaceae;Fabaceae subfam. Faboideae;Piscidia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Fabaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Fabaceae subfam. Faboideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Piscidia]]</div></div>
|etymology=Latin piscis, fish, and caedo, kill, alluding to use of plant extract for stupefying process
|volume=Volume 11
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=
}}<!--

--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>or trees, unarmed. <b>Stems</b> ascending, sericeous to strigulose or glabrescent. <b>Leaves</b> alternate, odd-pinnate; stipules present; petiolate; leaflets [5 or]7–11[–27], stipels absent, blade margins entire, surfaces pubescent. <b>Inflorescences</b> 30–100+-flowered, axillary or pseudoterminal, usually racemes, sometimes panicles [spikes]; bracts and bracteoles present. <b>Flowers</b> papilionaceous; calyx campanulate, lobes 5, short; corolla white with pink or reddish markings [pinkish or with purplish markings]; stamens 10, monadelphous, adaxial filament distinct nearly to base; anthers dorsifixed. <b>Fruits</b> loments, stipitate, compressed, straight, oblong, not beaked, leathery, with 4 papery wings (10–20 mm wide), indehiscent, pubescent. <b>Seeds</b> [1–]3–8[–10], reddish brown to dark brown, reniform. <b>x</b> = 11.</span><!--

-->{{Treatment/Body
|distribution=Florida;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;n;nw South America.
|discussion=<p>Species 7 (1 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references=
}}<!--

--><!--

-->{{#Taxon:
name=Piscidia
|author=Velva E. Rudd†;Michael A. Vincent
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subfamily
|synonyms=Ichthyomethia
|basionyms=
|family=Fabaceae
|distribution=Florida;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;n;nw South America.
|reference=None
|publication title=Syst. Nat. ed.
|publication year=1759
|special status=
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/master/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V11/V11_754.xml
|subfamily=Fabaceae subfam. Faboideae
|genus=Piscidia
}}<!--

-->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Fabaceae subfam. Faboideae]]