Moldenhawera
Moldenhawera is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It includes 12 species of trees and shrubs endemic to eastern Brazil. They grow in diverse habitats, including restinga (tropical moist coastal forest, woodland, and scrub on podzolized sandy soils just above the beach line), coastal dunes, wooded grassland (cerrado), low mountain scrub on sandstone-derived soils, and rocky montane grassland (campo rupestre). It belongs to the subfamily Caesalpinioideae.
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GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderFabales
- FamilyFabaceae
Native toBrazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast
General: with Recordoxylon and Melanoxylon in a new Batesia group. Moldenhawera
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Moldenhawera is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It includes 12 species of trees and shrubs endemic to eastern Brazil. They grow in diverse habitats, including restinga (tropical moist coastal forest, woodland, and scrub on podzolized sandy soils just above the beach line), coastal dunes, wooded grassland (cerrado), low mountain scrub on sandstone-derived soils, and rocky montane grassland (campo rupestre). It belongs to the subfamily Caesalpinioideae.
==Species== Moldenhawera acuminata Moldenhawera blanchetiana Moldenhawera brasiliensis Moldenhawera congestiflora Moldenhawera emarginata Moldenhawera floribunda Moldenhawera intermedia Moldenhawera longipedicellata Moldenhawera lushnathiana Moldenhawera nutans Moldenhawera papillanthera Moldenhawera polysperma