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Cranocarpus

Cranocarpus is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It includes three species native to northern and eastern Brazil. It belongs to subfamily Faboideae, and was recently assigned to the informal monophyletic Pterocarpus clade of the Dalbergieae.

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Cranocarpus
Cranocarpus mezii
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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: Dalbergieae
Genus: Cranocarpus
Benth. (1859)
Species12
  • Cranocarpus gracilis A.Fern. & P.Bezerra
  • Cranocarpus martii Benth.
  • Cranocarpus mezii Taub.

Cranocarpus is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It includes three species native to northern and eastern Brazil.3 It belongs to subfamily Faboideae, and was recently assigned to the informal monophyletic Pterocarpus clade of the Dalbergieae.45

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  1. "ILDIS LegumeWeb entry for Cranocarpus". International Legume Database & Information Service. Cardiff School of Computer Science & Informatics. Retrieved 10 February 2014.
  2. USDA; ARS; National Genetic Resources Program. "GRIN species records of Cranocarpus". Germplasm Resources Information Network—(GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 10 February 2014.
  3. Cranocarpus Benth. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 16 August 2023.
  4. Lavin M, Pennington RT, Klitgaard BB, Sprent JI, de Lima HC, Gasson PE (2001). "The dalbergioid legumes (Fabaceae): delimitation of a pantropical monophyletic clade". Am J Bot. 88 (3): 503–33. doi:10.2307/2657116. JSTOR 2657116. PMID 11250829.
  5. Cardoso D, Pennington RT, de Queiroz LP, Boatwright JS, Van Wyk BE, Wojciechowskie MF, Lavin M (2013). "Reconstructing the deep-branching relationships of the papilionoid legumes". S Afr J Bot. 89: 58–75. doi:10.1016/j.sajb.2013.05.001.

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