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Schleinitzia

Schleinitzia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It includes four species of trees and shrubs native to the Philippines, New Guinea, and the South Pacific. Typical habitats include tropical secondary rain forest, woodland, wooded grassland, coastal plain, and beaches. It belongs to the mimosoid clade of the subfamily Caesalpinioideae.

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Schleinitzia
Schleinitzia fosbergii
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Embryophytes
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Spermatophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Caesalpinioideae
Clade: Mimosoid clade
Genus: Schleinitzia
Warb. ex Nevling & Niezgoda (1919)
Species1

four; see text

Synonyms1

Schleinitzia Warb. (1891), not accepted by the author.

Schleinitzia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It includes four species of trees and shrubs native to the Philippines, New Guinea, and the South Pacific. Typical habitats include tropical secondary rain forest, woodland, wooded grassland, coastal plain, and beaches.1 It belongs to the mimosoid clade of the subfamily Caesalpinioideae.2

Species

  • Schleinitzia fosbergii Nevling & Niezgoda
  • Schleinitzia insularum (Guill.) Burkart
  • Schleinitzia megaladenia (Merr.) P.Guinet & I.C.Nielsen
  • Schleinitzia novoguineensis (Warb.) Verdc.
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