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Poecilanthe
Sign in to savePoecilanthe is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It includes 9 species of trees and shrubs native to eastern, southern, and west-central Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, and northeastern Argentina. They grow in seasonally-dry tropical forest, woodland, thicket, and riverine forest.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderFabales
- FamilyFabaceae
General: ., 2000; see also Lavin & Sousa, 1995); Poecilanthe comprises
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 128
- With media
- 33
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Collections
- UFERSA, UFMA, UFPE, CEPLAC, UFC, NY
- Recorded in
- Brasil, Colombia, Brasilia
Wikidata facts
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- Parent taxon
- Brongniartieae
- Image
- Poecilanthe falcata (Vell.) Heringer (22085404626).jpg
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Poecilanthe is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It includes 9 species of trees and shrubs native to eastern, southern, and west-central Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, and northeastern Argentina. They grow in seasonally-dry tropical forest, woodland, thicket, and riverine forest.
Several Amazonian species formerly classed in Poelicanthe were reclassified into the new genera Amphiodon and Limadendron based on a 2014 molecular and morphogenetic analysis.
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