Strombocarpa

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Strombocarpa
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Caesalpinioideae
Clade: Mimosoid clade
Genus: Strombocarpa
(Benth.) Engelm. & A.Gray (1845)
species [1]

10; see text

Synonyms [1]
  • SopropisBritton & Rose (1928)
  • SpirolobiumA.D.Orb. (1839), nom. rej.

Strombocarpa is a genus of flowering plants in the pea family (Fabaceae). This genus was previously classified as a section of genus Prosopis . [2] It includes ten species, which are native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, or to southern South America from Peru through Bolivia and northern and central Chile to southern Argentina. [1]

Ten species are accepted: [1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Strombocarpa (Benth.) Engelm. & A.Gray". Plants of the World Online . Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 11 February 2025.
  2. Hughes, Colin E.; Ringelberg, Jens; Lewis, G. P.; Catalano, Santiago (August 2022). "Disintegration of the genus Prosopis L. (Leguminosae, Caesalpinioideae, mimosoid clade)". PhytoKeys (205). Pensoft Publishers: 147–189. doi: 10.3897/phytokeys.205.75379 . PMC   9849005 . PMID   36762004.