Maackia

Taxobox
name = "Maackia"

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image_width = 250px
image_caption = "Maackia amurensis" at Morton Arboretum
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Fabales
familia = Fabaceae
subfamilia = Faboideae
tribus = Sophoreae
genus = "Maackia"
genus_authority = Rupr. & Maxim.
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text

"Maackia" is a genus of 11 species of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae, native to eastern Asia.

They are small to medium-sized deciduous trees typically growing 10-15 m tall. The leaves are compound pinnate, with 7-17 leaflets. The flowers are fragrant, white, yellowish, or greenish, produced in racemes 5-20 cm long. The fruit is a pod 3-8 cm long, containing one to six seeds.

The genus is related to "Cladrastis", differing in having the leaflets arranged in opposite pairs (not alternately), the buds not being hidden in the leaf base, and in the twigs not being brittle.

Maackia was named after the botanist Richard Maack.

;Species
*"Maackia amurensis" Rupr. & Maxim. Northern China, Korea, northern Japan, southeastern Siberia.
*"Maackia australis" (Dunn) Takeda. Southern China.
*"Maackia chekiangensis" Chien. Eastern China.
*"Maackia ellipticocarpa" Merr. Hong Kong.
*"Maackia fauriei" (Lévl.) Takeda. Korea.
*"Maackia floribunda" (Miq.) Takeda. Central and southern Japan.
*"Maackia hupehensis" Takeda. Central China.
*"Maackia hwashanensis" W.T.Wang. Central China.
*"Maackia taiwanensis" Hoshi & Ohashi. Taiwan.
*"Maackia tashiroi" (Yatabe) Makino. Southern Japan (Kyūshū, Ryukyu Islands).
*"Maackia tenuifolia" (Hemsl.) Hand.-Mazz. Eastern China.

References

*Andrews, S. (1997). Trees of the Year: Cladrastis and Maackia. "Int. Dendrol. Soc. Year Book" 1996: 12–26.

External links

* [http://www.cirrusimage.com/tree_Amur_maackia.htm "Maackia amurensis"] Diagnostic photographs and information, Morton Arboretum acc. 147-71-5