Abrus

Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Rosids
Cladus: Eurosids I
Ordo: Fabales

Familia: Fabaceae
Subfamilia: Faboideae
Tribus: Abreae
Genus: Abrus
Species: A. aureus – A. baladensis – A. bottae – A. canescens – A. diversifoliolatus – A. fruticulosus – A. gawenensis – A. kaokoensis – A. laevigatus – A. longibracteatus – A. madagascariensis – A. melanospermus – A. parvifolius – A. precatorius – A. sambiranensis – A. somalensis – A. wittei

Source(s) of checklist:

Govaerts, R. et al. 2024. Abrus in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2024 Nov. 1. Reference page.

Name

Abrus Adans., Fam. Pl. (Adanson) 2: 327 (1763).

Type species: A. precatorius L.

Synonyms

Heterotypic
Hoepfneria Vatke, Oesterr. Bot. Z. 29: 222 (1879)
Hulthemia Blume ex Miq., Fl. Ned. Ind. 1(1): 160 (1855), nom. inval.
Zaga Raf., Fl. Tellur. 2: 33 (1837)

Distribution
Native distribution areas:

Continental: Tropical & Subtropical Old World to SW. Pacific
Aldabra, Andaman Is., Angola, Assam, Bangladesh, Benin, Borneo, Botswana, Burkina, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Caprivi Strip, Central African Republic, Chad, China South-Central, China Southeast, Comoros, Congo, East Himalaya, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Hainan, India, Ivory Coast, Jawa, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Laos, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, New Caledonia, New Guinea, New South Wales, Nicobar Is., Niger, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Pakistan, Philippines, Queensland, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South China Sea, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Uganda, Vietnam, West Himalaya, Western Australia, Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
Introduced into:
Bahamas, Belize, Bismarck Archipelago, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Cayman Is., Colombia, Cook Is., Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Fiji, Florida, French Guiana, Galápagos, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Lesser Sunda Is., Marquesas, Mauritius, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Niue, Panamá, Peru, Puerto Rico, Rodrigues, Réunion, Samoa, Santa Cruz Is., Society Is., Southwest Caribbean, Sumatera, Suriname, Tonga, Trinidad-Tobago, Tuamotu, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Wallis-Futuna Is., Windward Is.

References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition
References
Primary references

Adanson, M. 1763. Familles des Plantes. II. partie. (24) + 640 pp. Paris: Vincent. BHL Reference page. : 327, 511

Links

Govaerts, R. et al. 2024. Abrus in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2024 Nov. 1. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2020. Abrus. Published online. Accessed: Oct 25 2020. Reference page.
Tropicos.org 2020. Abrus. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 25 Oct 2020.

Vernacular names
русский: Арбус
Abrus is a genus of flowering plants in the pea family, Fabaceae, and the only genus in the tribe Abreae. It contains 13–18 species, but is best known for a single species: jequirity (A. precatorius). The highly toxic seeds of that species are used to make jewellery.[3][4][5]

Species range naturally across tropical Africa, Madagascar, the Arabian Peninsula, south and southeast Asia, southern China, New Guinea, and Australia. Some species have been introduced to the tropical Americas.[2]
Species

Abrus aureus R.Vig. (Madagascar)
Abrus baladensis Thulin [es] (Somalia)
Abrus bottae Deflers [fr] (Saudi Arabia, Yemen)
Abrus canescens Welw. ex Baker (Africa)
Abrus cantoniensis Hance (China)
Abrus diversifoliatus Breteler [es] (Madagascar)
Abrus fruticulosus Wall. ex Wight & Arn. (India)
Abrus gawenensis Thulin (Somalia)
Abrus kaokoensis Swanepoel & Kolberg (Namibia)[6]
Abrus laevigatus E.Mey. (Southern Africa)
Abrus longibracteatus Labat (Laos, Vietnam)
Abrus madagascariensis R.Vig. (Madagascar)
Abrus melanospermus Hassk. (Tropical & Subtropical Asia to SW. Pacific)
Abrus parvifolius (R.Vig.) Verdc. (Madagascar)
Abrus precatorius L. - Jequirity (Africa, Australia, Southeast Asia)
Abrus pulchellus Wall. ex Voigt (Africa)
Abrus sambiranensis R.Vig. (Madagascar)
Abrus schimperi Hochst. ex Baker (Africa)
Abrus somalensis Taub. (Somalia)
Abrus wittei Baker f. (Zaire)

Abrus pulchellus
References

"genus Abrus". Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN) online database. Retrieved 1 May 2020.
Abrus Adans. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 8 August 2023.
Hartley, Martin R. (2010). Toxic Plant Proteins. Springer. pp. 134–. ISBN 9783642121760. Retrieved 1 January 2013.
Lewis, Robert Alan (1998). Lewisʼ Dictionary of Toxicology. CRC Press. pp. 3–4. ISBN 9781566702232. Retrieved 1 January 2013.
Allen, Oscar Nelson; Alen, Ethel K. (1981). The Leguminosae: A Source Book of Characteristics, Uses and Nodulation. Univ of Wisconsin Press. pp. 4–. ISBN 9780299084004. Retrieved 1 January 2013.
Swanepoel, W.; Kolberg, H. (2011). "Abrus kaokoensis (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae-Abreae), a new species from Namibia". South African Journal of Botany. 77 (3): 613–617. doi:10.1016/j.sajb.2010.12.005. hdl:2263/58380.