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Fissicalyx
Sign in to saveFissicalyx fendleri is a species of flowering plant in the legume family, Fabaceae. It is a tree native to the tropical Americas, ranging from Panama through Colombia, Venezuela, and Guyana to northern Brazil. It grows in humid lowland forest.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderFabales
- FamilyFabaceae
General: ), based on DNA sequence data, resolved Fissicalyx
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 4
- With media
- 3
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Collections
- F
- Recorded in
- Guyana, Venezuela
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Fissicalyx fendleri is a species of flowering plant in the legume family, Fabaceae. It is a tree native to the tropical Americas, ranging from Panama through Colombia, Venezuela, and Guyana to northern Brazil. It grows in humid lowland forest.
It belongs to subfamily Faboideae, and was recently assigned to the informal monophyletic Pterocarpus clade of the Dalbergieae. It is the only member of the genus Fissicalyx.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fissicalyx” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.