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Poecilanthe

Poecilanthe is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It includes 9 species of trees and shrubs native to eastern, southern, and west-central Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, and northeastern Argentina. They grow in seasonally-dry tropical forest, woodland, thicket, and riverine forest.

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Poecilanthe
Poecilanthe falcata
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Embryophytes
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Spermatophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Tribe: Brongniartieae
Genus: Poecilanthe
Benth. (1860)
Species1

9; see text

Poecilanthe is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It includes 9 species of trees and shrubs native to eastern, southern, and west-central Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, and northeastern Argentina. They grow in seasonally-dry tropical forest, woodland, thicket, and riverine forest.1

Several Amazonian species formerly classed in Poelicanthe were reclassified into the new genera Amphiodon and Limadendron based on a 2014 molecular and morphogenetic analysis.2

Species

Poecilanthe comprises the following species:134526

  • Poecilanthe boliviana G.P.Lewis
  • Poecilanthe falcata (Vell.) Heringer
  • Poecilanthe fluminensis Meireles & H.C.Lima
  • Poecilanthe goiasana G.P.Lewis
  • Poecilanthe grandiflora Benth.
  • Poecilanthe itapuana G.P.Lewis
  • Poecilanthe parviflora Benth.
  • Poecilanthe subcordata Benth.
  • Poecilanthe ulei (Harms) Arroyo & Rudd
References

References

  1. Poecilanthe Benth. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 15 September 2023.
  2. Meireles JE, Azevedo-Tozzi AMG, Lavin M (2014). "A phylogenetic analysis of molecular and morphological data reveals a paraphyletic Poecilanthe (Leguminosae, Papilionoideae)". Syst Bot. 39 (4): 1142–1149. doi:10.1600/036364414X683912.
  3. Meireles JE, de Azevedo Tozzi AMG (2007). "A synopsis of the genus Poecilanthe (Leguminosae, Papilionoideae, Brongniartieae)" (PDF). es:Rodriguésia. 58: 257–258.
  4. "ILDIS LegumeWeb entry for Poecilanthe". International Legume Database & Information Service. Cardiff School of Computer Science & Informatics. Retrieved 21 February 2014.
  5. USDA; ARS; National Genetic Resources Program. "GRIN species records of Poecilanthe". Germplasm Resources Information Network—(GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Retrieved 21 February 2014.
  6. Meireles JE, Azevedo-Tozzi AMG (2014). "Limadendron: a new genus of Leguminosae (Papilionoideae, Brongniartieae) from South America". Plant Syst Evol. 301 (2): 701–707. doi:10.1007/s00606-014-1108-7.