Harpalyce (plant)

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Harpalyce
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Harpalyce brasiliana
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Tribe: Brongniartieae
Genus: Harpalyce
Moç. & Sessé ex DC. (1827)
Species

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Range of Harpalyce [1]

Harpalyce is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae. It includes 35 species of shrubs and small trees native to the tropical Americas. Their distribution is disjunct, ranging from Mexico to Nicaragua, Cuba, and northern to southeastern Brazil and Bolivia. Typical habitats include seasonally-dry tropical forest, warm-temperate humid forest, woodland, bushland and thicket, shrubland, and grassland. Most species are evergreen and flower during the dry season. [2]

Species

Harpalyce comprises the following species: [2] [3] [4]

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References

  1. Thompson IR, Ladiges PY, Ross JH (2001). "Phylogenetic studies of the tribe Brongniartieae (Fabaceae) using nuclear DNA (ITS-1) and morphological data". Syst Bot . 26 (3): 557–570. doi:10.1043/0363-6445-26.3.557 (inactive 2024-09-18). JSTOR   3093981.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of September 2024 (link)
  2. 1 2 Harpalyce Moc. & Sessé ex DC. Plants of the World Online . Retrieved 1 September 2023.
  3. "ILDIS LegumeWeb entry for Harpalyce". International Legume Database & Information Service. Cardiff School of Computer Science & Informatics. Retrieved 21 February 2014.
  4. USDA; ARS; National Genetic Resources Program. "GRIN species records of Harpalyce". Germplasm Resources Information Network—(GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Retrieved 21 February 2014.
  5. São-Mateus WM, de Queiroz LP, Gomes Jardim J, Cardoso DB (2018). "Harpalyce riparia (Leguminosae, Papilionoideae), a New Species from the Campos Rupestres of the Chapada Diamantina in Bahia, Brazil". Systematic Botany. 43 (1): 206–211. doi:10.1600/036364418X697102. S2CID   89752990.