# Maackia

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For the genus of snails, see [Maackia (gastropod)](/source/Maackia_(gastropod)).

***Maackia*** is a genus of [flowering plants](/source/Flowering_plant) in the [legume](/source/Legume) family, [Fabaceae](/source/Fabaceae). There are 9 species, all native to eastern [Asia](/source/Asia), from China and Taiwan through Korea, Japan, and the Russian Far East.[1] Six species are [endemic](/source/Endemism) to [China](/source/China).[2] The generic name honors the botanist [Richard Maack](/source/Richard_Maack).

They are [deciduous](/source/Deciduous) [trees](/source/Tree) and [shrubs](/source/Shrub). The alternately arranged leaves are divided into leaflets. The [inflorescence](/source/Inflorescence) is a simple or compound [raceme](/source/Raceme) of many flowers. Each flower has an inflated [calyx](/source/Sepal) with five teeth. The white or greenish corolla has a reflexed standard petal and keel petals that are fused at the bases. The fruit is a wide or narrow, flattened legume pod containing one to five flat seeds.[2]

## Species

*Maackia* comprises the following species:[1][3][4]

- *[Maackia amurensis](/source/Maackia_amurensis)* Rupr.—Amur maackia - var. *amurensis* Rupr. - var. *buergeri* (Maxim.) C.K.Schneid.
- *[Maackia australis](/source/Maackia_australis)* (Dunn) Takeda

- *[Maackia chekiangensis](/source/Maackia_chekiangensis)* S.S. Chien

- *[Maackia floribunda](/source/Maackia_floribunda)* (Miq.) Takeda

- *[Maackia hupehensis](/source/Maackia_hupehensis)* Takeda[5]
- *[Maackia hwashanensis](/source/Maackia_hwashanensis)* W.T. Wang ex C.W. Chang
- *[Maackia taiwanensis](/source/Maackia_taiwanensis)* Hoshi & Ohashi.
- *[Maackia tashiroi](/source/Maackia_tashiroi)* (Yatabe) Makino
- *[Maackia tenuifolia](/source/Maackia_tenuifolia)* (Hemsl.) Hand.-Mazz.

## References

1. [*Maackia* Rupr.](https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:22850-1) *[Plants of the World Online](/source/Plants_of_the_World_Online)*. Retrieved 5 September 2023.

1. [*Maackia*.](http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=119223) Flora of China.

1. ["ILDIS LegumeWeb entry for *Maackia*"](http://www.ildis.org/LegumeWeb?version~10.01&genus~Maackia&species~). *International Legume Database & Information Service*. Cardiff School of Computer Science & Informatics. Retrieved 15 May 2014.

1. USDA; ARS; National Genetic Resources Program. ["GRIN species records of *Maackia*"](http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?7085). *[Germplasm Resources Information Network](/source/Germplasm_Resources_Information_Network)—(GRIN) [Online Database]*. [National Germplasm Resources Laboratory](/source/Henry_A._Wallace_Beltsville_Agricultural_Research_Center), Beltsville, Maryland. Retrieved 15 May 2014.

1. Some sources give *Maackia chinensis* Takeda priority over *Maackia hupehensis* Takeda.

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