Afgekia
Template:Short description Template:Automatic taxobox Afgekia is a small genus of large perennial climbing shrubs native to Thailand in Asia, belonging to the family Fabaceae.<ref name=POWO_21592-1/> They are reminiscent of the related genus Wisteria.<ref name=Li14/>
Description
The two species of Afgekia are scrambling climbers, reaching Template:Cvt high. The mature stems are brown. The leaves are evergreen and generally have 8–16 paired leaflets plus a terminal leaflet. The leaflets are Template:Cvt long by Template:Cvt wide. The erect inflorescence is a leafy raceme, Template:Cvt long. The individual flowers are Template:Cvt long and have the general shape of members of the subfamily Faboideae. The standard petal is Template:Cvt long by Template:Cvt wide, cream in colour with pale pink to purple markings and a pale or dark yellow or greenish nectar guide. The deep pink or purple wing petals are more or less equal in length to the keel at Template:Cvt long by Template:Cvt wide, with short basal claws. The white keel petals are Template:Cvt long by Template:Cvt wide. Nine of the stamens are fused together, the other is free; all curve upwards at the apex. The inflated seed pods are Template:Cvt long by Template:Cvt wide, splitting when ripe to release the 2 or 3 seeds.<ref name=CompSchrKonyFore19/>
Taxonomy
Template:See also The genus Afgekia was established by William Grant Craib in 1927,<ref name=IPNI_21592-1/> initially with one species, Afgekia sericea.<ref name=IPNI_473025-1/> The genus name commemorates Arthur Francis George Kerr,<ref name=IPNI_21592-1/> being formed from his initials. Kerr was an Irish physician and pioneering botanist in Thailand in the early twentieth century.<ref name=Burk18/> The type specimen of Afgekia sericea was collected by Kerr's Thai associate Anuwat.<ref name=CompSchrKonyFore19/>
A 2019 molecular phylogenetic study showed that one of the species then placed in Afgekia (A. filipes, now Padbruggea filipes) did not belong in the genus, but that the remaining two species formed a well separated clade, sister to Kanburia, in turn forming a larger clade with Callerya, Serawaia and Whitfordiodendron. Morphological characters that distinguish Afgekia from other genera include two rather than one pair of callosities on the standard petal and the longest stipules and floral bracts in the tribe Wisterieae.<ref name=CompSchrKonyFore19/>
Species
Template:As of, Plants of the World Online accepted two species:<ref name=POWO_21592-1/>
References
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