| Pityrocarpa | |
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Scientific 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) |
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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]
- Pityrocarpa brenanii (G.P.Lewis & M.P.Lima) L.P.Queiroz & L.M.Borges
- Pityrocarpa inaequalis (Benth.) L.P.Queiroz & Marc.F.Simon
- Pityrocarpa leptostachya (Benth.) L.P.Queiroz & P.G.Ribeiro
- Pityrocarpa leucoxylon (Barneby & J.W.Grimes) Luckow & R.W.Jobson
- Pityrocarpa moniliformis (Benth.) Luckow & R.W.Jobson
- Pityrocarpa obliqua (Pers.) Brenan
- Pityrocarpa schumanniana (Taub.) L.P.Queiroz & L.M.Borges
References
- 1 2 3 Pityrocarpa (Benth. & Hook.f.) Britton & Rose. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 14 September 2023.
- ↑ Jobson RW, Luckow M. (2007). "Phylogenetic study of the genus Piptadenia (Mimosoideae: Leguminosae) using plastid trnL–F and trnK/matK sequence data". Syst Bot. 32 (3): 569–575. doi:10.1600/036364407782250544.
- ↑ The Legume Phylogeny Working Group (LPWG). (2017). "A new subfamily classification of the Leguminosae based on a taxonomically comprehensive phylogeny". Taxon. 66 (1): 44–77. doi:10.12705/661.3.
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