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Myrocarpus
Sign in to saveMyrocarpus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It includes five species of trees native to tropical South America, ranging from Venezuela to northern Argentina. Typical habitats include wet to seasonally-dry tropical lowland forest and woodland.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderFabales
- FamilyFabaceae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 61
- With media
- 9
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Collections
- F, MO, UEMA, UEL, USP-IB, NHMUK
- Recorded in
- Peru, Venezuela, Bolivia, Brasil, Brazil
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- Myrocarpus
- taxon name
- Myrocarpus
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Myrocarpus
- taxon author citation
- Allemão
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Myrocarpus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It includes five species of trees native to tropical South America, ranging from Venezuela to northern Argentina. Typical habitats include wet to seasonally-dry tropical lowland forest and woodland.
It contains the following species: Myrocarpus emarginatus Myrocarpus fastigiatus Allemão Myrocarpus frondosus Allemão Myrocarpus leprosus Pickel Myrocarpus venezuelensis Rudd Members of this genus produce hydroxypipecolic acids in their leaves.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Myrocarpus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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