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| Scientific classification   | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae | 
| Clade: | Tracheophytes | 
| Clade: | Angiosperms | 
| Clade: | Eudicots | 
| Clade: | Rosids | 
| Order: | Fabales | 
| Family: | Fabaceae | 
| Subfamily: | Faboideae | 
| Clade: | Vataireoids | 
| Genus: | Sweetia Spreng. (1825), nom. cons. | 
| Species: | S. fruticosa | 
| Binomial name | |
| Sweetia fruticosa  Spreng. (1825) | |
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Sweetia fruticosa is a species of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It is a tree native to eastern, southern, and west-central Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, and northeastern Argentina. [2] It is the only member of the genus Sweetia (though some sources also include Sweetia atrataMohlenbr.). [3] [4] It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae. It was traditionally assigned to the tribe Sophoreae, mainly on the basis of flower morphology; [5] recent molecular phylogenetic analyses assigned Sweetia fruticosa into an informal, monophyletic clade called the "vataireoids". [6] [7]