Newtonia (plant)

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Newtonia
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Newtonia hildebrandtii
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Caesalpinioideae
Clade: Mimosoid clade
Genus: Newtonia
Baill.
Species [1]

16; see text

Newtonia is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It includes 16 species of trees native to sub-Saharan Africa. [1] It belongs to subfamily Caesalpinioideae [2] and the Mimosoid clade [2] or tribe. The genus is known from the early Miocene (21.73 Ma) of Ethiopia based on compressions of its diagnostic, winged seeds. [3]

16 extant species are accepted. [1] [4] [3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Newtonia Baill. Plants of the World Online . Retrieved 7 September 2023.
  2. 1 2 The Legume Phylogeny Working Group (LPWG). (2017). "A new subfamily classification of the Leguminosae based on a taxonomically comprehensive phylogeny". Taxon . 66 (1): 44–77. doi: 10.12705/661.3 . hdl: 10568/90658 .
  3. 1 2 Pan, Aaron D.; Currano, Ellen D.; Jacobs, Bonnie F.; Feseha, Mulugeta; Tabor, Neil; Herendeen, Patrick S. (2012). "Fossil Newtonia (Fabaceae: Mimoseae) Seeds from the Early Miocene (22–21 Ma) Mush Valley in Ethiopia" . International Journal of Plant Sciences. 173 (3): 290–296. doi:10.1086/663967. S2CID   84215509.
  4. ILDIS (2005)

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