Lonchocarpus


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Noun1.Lonchocarpus - genus of chiefly tropical American shrubs and trees having pinnate leaves and red or white flowers
rosid dicot genus - a genus of dicotyledonous plants
Papilionoideae, subfamily Papilionoideae - alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae
cube - any of several tropical American woody plants of the genus Lonchocarpus whose roots are used locally as a fish poison and commercially as a source of rotenone
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These are Lonchocarpus cyanescens, Costus afar and Terminalia ivorensis.
saga confirms that this species is opportunistic, because its emergence also has been reported from non-girdled Lonchocarpus neuroscapha Benth.
From the total tree species selected by cows, young and mature leaves of Neomillspaughia emargiata, Tabernaemontana amygdalifolia, Piscidia piscipula, Gymnopodium floribundum, Havardia albicans, Lonchocarpus rugosus, Guazuma ulmifolia, Lysiloma latisiliquum, Luecaena leucocephala, Pithecellobium albicans, Haematoxylum campechianum, Mimosa bahamensis, Bursera simaruba, Caesalpinia gaumeri, Helicteres barvensis, Machaonia lindeniana, Vitex gaumeri, and Bauhinia divaricata were selected due to their highest consumption by animals.
in Asia, Lonchocarpus in South America, and several other legumes in the tropics region [1].
The most abundant species are carmin (D, A-C 3-4), sigua (D, A-C 1-2) and sometimes lirio amarillo (C, A-C 1), macaguey (toad) (I, A-C 1), ayua de sierra (I, A-C 1), picha jutia (Hyperbaena paucinervis, 0, A-C 1), penda (I, A-C 1), lirio santana (I, A-C 1), carbonero (I, A-C 1) and guama (Lonchocarpus longipes, 0, A-C 1) are also seen in this layer.
Fabaceae Anadenanthera colubrina (Vell.) 6 3 Brenan Apuleia leiocarpa (Vogel) J.F.Macbr 1 1 Machaerium hirtum (Vell.) Stellfeld 3 6 Lonchocarpus guilleminianus (Tul.) 1 Malme Machaerium nyctitans (Vell.) Benth.
cuyo uso como insecticida se inicio en Persia; la rotenona, presente en las raices de Lonchocarpus spp., Derris spp.