Geoffroea

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Geoffroea
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Flowering Geoffroea decorticans in detail
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Tribe: Dalbergieae
Genus: Geoffroea
Jacq. (1760)
Type species
Geoffroea spinosa
Jacq.
Species [1] [2] [3]
Geoffroea distribution.svg
Key: [3]
  Range of Geoffroea decorticans.
  Range of Geoffroea spinosa.
Synonyms [2]
  • GeoffraeaL. (1763), orth. var.
  • GourlieaGillies ex Hook. & Arn.(1833)
  • UmariAdans. (1763)

Geoffroea is a rather small genus of wild spiny shrubs or small trees of tropical and subtropical South America. Although it gathers few species, they are highly extended geographically throughout the subcontinent. Each species is well known in its local area, as seen from the varied (and mostly domestic) usage of these trees as food, timber, or fuel. It was recently assigned to the informal monophyletic Pterocarpus clade within the Dalbergieae. [4] [5]

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dalbergioids</span> Clade of legumes

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References

  1. "ILDIS LegumeWeb entry for Geoffroea". International Legume Database & Information Service. Cardiff School of Computer Science & Informatics. Retrieved 10 February 2014.
  2. 1 2 Geoffroea Jacq. Plants of the World Online . Retrieved 31 August 2023.
  3. 1 2 Ireland H, Pennington RT (2013). "A revision of Geoffroea (Leguminosae: Papilionoideae)". Edinb J Bot . 56 (3): 329–347. doi: 10.1017/S0960428600001293 .
  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. Archived from the original on 2017-10-29. Retrieved 2013-12-05.
  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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