Chesneya

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Chesneya
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Chesnaya rytidosperma
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Tribe: Hedysareae
Genus: Chesneya
Lindl. ex Endl. (1840)
Species

47; see text

Synonyms [1]
  • ChesniellaBoriss. (1964)
  • KostyczewaKorsh. (1896 publ. 1897)
  • SpongiocarpellaYakovlev & N.Ulziykh. (1987)

Chesneya is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. [2] It includes 47 species which range across temperate Asia, from Turkey through Syria, Iraq, Iran, Central Asia, and the Himalayas to Inner Mongolia, central China, and Myanmar. [1] It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae.

Species

47 species are accepted: [1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Chesneya Lindl. ex Endl. Plants of the World Online . Retrieved 1 August 2023.
  2. Zhang, Ming-Li; Wen, Zhi-Bin; Hao, Xiao-Li; Byalt, Vyacheslav V.; Sukhorukov, Alexander P.; Sanderson, Stewart C. (2015-12-01). "Taxonomy, phylogenetics and biogeography of Chesneya (Fabaceae), evidenced from data of three sequences, ITS, trnS-trnG, and rbcL" . Biochemical Systematics and Ecology. 63: 80–89. Bibcode:2015BioSE..63...80Z. doi:10.1016/j.bse.2015.09.017. ISSN   0305-1978.