Pityrocarpa

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Pityrocarpa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Caesalpinioideae
Clade: Mimosoid clade
Genus: Pityrocarpa
(Benth. & Hook.f.) Britton & Rose (1928)
Species[1]

7; see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Monoschisma Brenan (1955), nom. illeg.
  • Piptadenia sect. Pityrocarpa Benth. & Hook.f. (1875)[2]
  • Pseudopiptadenia Rauschert (1982)

Pityrocarpa is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It includes seven species of shrubs and small trees native to the tropical Americas, including western and southeastern Mexico, Guatemala and El Salvador, Venezuela and Guyana, Bolivia, and eastern Brazil. Native habitats include tropical coastal rain forest, gallery forest, secondary forest, woodland, wooded grassland (Cerrado), and thorn scrub (Caatinga).[1] It belongs to the mimosoid clade of the subfamily Caesalpinioideae.[3]

References

[edit | edit source]
  1. ^ a b c Pityrocarpa (Benth. & Hook.f.) Britton & Rose. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 14 September 2023.
  2. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  3. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).

Lua error in Module:Taxonbar at line 165: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).