Melanoxylum

Melanoxylum
	Flowers and seed pods of the Brauna tree
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Embryophytes
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Spermatophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Fabales
Family:	Fabaceae
Subfamily:	Caesalpinioideae
Genus:	Melanoxylum; Schott (1822)
Species:	M. brauna
Binomial name
	Melanoxylum brauna; Schott (1827)
Synonyms
	Perittium Vogel (1837); Perittium ferrugineum Vogel (1837); Recordoxylon irwinii R.S.Cowan (1973);

Melanoxylum is genus of plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It includes a single species, Melanoxylum brauna, the yellow-flowered brauna tree. It is native to eastern Brazil.² The genus is part of subfamily Caesalpinioideae.³

References

Melanoxylum Schott. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 6 September 2023
Melanoxylum brauna Schott. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 6 September 2023.
The Legume Phylogeny Working Group (LPWG). (2017). "A new subfamily classification of the Leguminosae based on a taxonomically comprehensive phylogeny". Taxon. 66 (1): 44–77. doi:10.12705/661.3. hdl:10568/90658.

[powo1-1] Melanoxylum Schott. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 6 September 2023

[powo2-2] Melanoxylum brauna Schott. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 6 September 2023.

[6subfamilies-3] The Legume Phylogeny Working Group (LPWG). (2017). "A new subfamily classification of the Leguminosae based on a taxonomically comprehensive phylogeny". Taxon. 66 (1): 44–77. doi:10.12705/661.3. hdl:10568/90658.

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