Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Fabales > Fabaceae > Bituminaria > Bituminaria bituminosa

Bituminaria bituminosa (Arabian pea; Arabian Scurfpea)

Synonyms:
Language: Russian

Wikipedia Abstract

Bituminaria bituminosa, the Arabian pea or pitch trefoil, is a perennial Mediterranean herb species in the genus Bituminaria. The pterocarpans bitucarpin A and B can be isolated from the aerial parts of B. bituminosa. It has several potential uses: (i) forage crop, (ii) Phytostabilization of heavy metal contaminated or degraded soils, (iii) Synthesis of furanocoumarins (psoralen, angelicin, xanthotoxin and bergapten), compounds of broad pharmaceutical interest. \n* \n* \n* \n* \n* \n* \n* \n* \n* \n* \n* \n*
View Wikipedia Record: Bituminaria bituminosa

Attributes

Bee Flower Color [1]  Blue
Flower Color [1]  Blue
Dispersal Mode [4]  Autochory, Endozoochory, Epizoochory, Anemochory, Zoochory
Leaf Type [2]  Evergreen
Lifespan [3]  Perennial
Structure [2]  Herb

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Kavkazskiy Biosphere Reserve Ia 692723 Krasnodar, Karachay-Cherkessia, Adygea, Russia
Luberon Regional Nature Park V 406572 France  
Parco Del Somma-Vesuvio e Miglio D'Oro National Park II 33648 Italy
Reserva de la Biosfera de Urdaibai Biosphere Reserve V 1777 Spain  

Predators

Columba trocaz (Trocaz Pigeon)[5]
Dysmicoccus psoraleae[6]
Gallotia galloti (Gallot's Lizard)[7]
Iwaruna biguttella[8]
Synthymia fixa (goldwing)[9]

Providers

Pollinated by 
Iphiclides podalirius (Scarce Swallowtail)[8]
Papilio machaon (Old World swallowtail)[8]
Rhodanthidium septemdentatum[8]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Arnold SEJ, Faruq S, Savolainen V, McOwan PW, Chittka L, 2010 FReD: The Floral Reflectance Database — A Web Portal for Analyses of Flower Colour. PLoS ONE 5(12): e14287.
♦ 2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 3USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 4Paula S, Arianoutsou M, Kazanis D, Tavsanoglu Ç, Lloret F, Buhk C, Ojeda F, Luna B, Moreno JM, Rodrigo A, Espelta JM, Palacio S, Fernández-Santos B, Fernandes PM, and Pausas JG. 2009. Fire-related traits for plant species of the Mediterranean Basin. Ecology 90: 1420.
Paula S. & Pausas J.G. 2013. BROT: a plant trait database for Mediterranean Basin species. Version 2013.06.
♦ 5DIET OF THE ENDEMIC MADEIRA LAUREL PIGEON AND FRUIT RESOURCE AVAILABILITY: A STUDY USING MICROHISTOLOGICAL ANALYSES, PAULO OLIVEIRA, PATRICIA MARRERO AND MANUEL NOGALES, The Condor 104:811–822 (2002)
♦ 6Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 7Temporal and Spatial Variation in the Diet of the Endemic Lizard Gallotia galloti in an Insular Mediterranean Scrubland, Airam Rodríguez, Manuel Nogales, Beatriz Rumeu, and Beneharo Rodríguez, Journal of Herpetology, Vol. 42, No. 2, pp. 213–222, 2008
♦ 8Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 9Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0