Taxon: Calia secundiflora (Ortega) Yakovlev

Common names:

• mescal-bean   (Source: Hortus 3 [as Sophora secundiflora]) – English
  
• Texas-mountain-laurel   (Source: Leg Tex [as Sophora secundiflora]) – English
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Trop Leg, as Sophora secundiflora)
  
• Materials: beads   (fide Bot Beads World; as web document as Sophora secundiflora)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2, as Sophora secundiflora)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Lampe & McCann, as Sophora secundiflora)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Calia secundiflora from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico [s.e.], Texas
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Nuevo Leon, San Luis Potosi, Tamaulipas, Zacatecas
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Hidalgo, Puebla, Queretaro

• also cultivated

References:

• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. [= Sophora secundiflora].
• Smith, R. J. Botanical beads of the world (on-line resource).
• Turner, B. L. 1959. The legumes of Texas. [= Sophora secundiflora].
• Yakovlev, G. P. 1968. The genus Calia Terán et Berl. (Sophoreae) in America. Trudy Leningradsk. Khim.-Farm. Inst. 26:104–112.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Calia secundiflora.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Calia secundiflora.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Calia secundiflora.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Broussonetia secundiflora Ortega (basionym)
  
• (≡) Sophora secundiflora (Ortega) Lag. ex DC.
  (previously associated with 17 accessions)

Check other web resources for Calia secundiflora (Ortega) Yakovlev:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ILDIS: World Database of Legumes
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images or nodulation data:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• GRIN nodulation data

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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