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Neptunia (genus)
Encyclopedia
Neptunia is a genus of flowering plant
s in the pea
family, Fabaceae
, subfamily Mimosoideae
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Flowering plant
The flowering plants , also known as Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants. Angiosperms are seed-producing plants like the gymnosperms and can be distinguished from the gymnosperms by a series of synapomorphies...
s in the pea
Pea
A pea is most commonly the small spherical seed or the seed-pod of the pod fruit Pisum sativum. Each pod contains several peas. Peapods are botanically a fruit, since they contain seeds developed from the ovary of a flower. However, peas are considered to be a vegetable in cooking...
family, Fabaceae
Fabaceae
The Fabaceae or Leguminosae, commonly known as the legume, pea, or bean family, is a large and economically important family of flowering plants. The group is the third largest land plant family, behind only the Orchidaceae and Asteraceae, with 730 genera and over 19,400 species...
, subfamily Mimosoideae
Mimosoideae
Mimosoideae is a subfamily of the flowering plant family Fabaceae characterized by flowers with small petals and numerous prominent stamens...
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Selected species
- Neptunia amplexicaulis Domin
- Neptunia dimorphanthaNeptunia dimorphanthaNeptunia dimorphantha, commonly known as Sensitive Plant, is a trailing perennial plant from Australia in the legume family Fabaceae. It produces yellow flowers between July and November....
Domin - Neptunia gracilis Benth.
- Neptunia luteaNeptunia luteaNeptunia lutea, the Yellow-puff, is a trailing, vine-like perennial plant of the legume family Fabaeceae. Its stems are covered with soft spines, but is not nearly as prickly as its cousin, the Sensitive Brier ....
- Neptunia major (Benth.) Windler
- Neptunia monosperma F.Muell. ex Benth.
- Neptunia pubescens
- Neptunia oleraceaNeptunia oleraceaNeptunia oleracea, commonly known in English as Water Mimosa, is a vegetable usually eaten raw in Thailand and Cambodia. It is an aquatic plant cultivated much like rice...