Geoffroea

Geoffroea
Flowering Geoffroea decorticans in detail
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Tribe: Dalbergieae[1][2]
Genus: Geoffroea
Jacq.
Type species
Geoffroea spinosa Jacq.
Species[3][4]
Key:[5]
  Range of Geoffroea decorticans.
  Range of Geoffroea spinosa.
Synonyms[5]
  • Geoffraea Jacq.
  • Geoffroya L.
  • Geoffrea Stokes
  • Gourliea Gillies ex Hook. & Arn.

Geoffroea is a rather small genus of wild spiny shrubs or small trees of tropical and subtropical South America. Although it gathers few species, they are highly extended geographically throughout the subcontinent. Each species is well known in its local area, as seen from the varied (and mostly domestic) usage of these trees as food, timber, or fuel. It was recently was recently assigned to the informal monophyletic Pterocarpus clade within the Dalbergieae.[1][2]

References

  1. 1 2 Lavin M, Pennington RT, Klitgaard BB, Sprent JI, de Lima HC, Gasson PE. (2001). "The dalbergioid legumes (Fabaceae): delimitation of a pantropical monophyletic clade". Am J Bot 88 (3): 503–33. doi:10.2307/2657116. PMID 11250829.
  2. 1 2 Cardoso D, Pennington RT, de Queiroz LP, Boatwright JS, Van Wyk B-E, Wojciechowskie MF, Lavin M. (2013). "Reconstructing the deep-branching relationships of the papilionoid legumes". S Afr J Bot 89: 58–75. doi:10.1016/j.sajb.2013.05.001.
  3. ↑ "ILDIS LegumeWeb entry for Geoffroea". International Legume Database & Information Service. Cardiff School of Computer Science & Informatics. Retrieved 10 February 2014.
  4. ↑ USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. "GRIN species records of Geoffroea". Germplasm Resources Information Network—(GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Retrieved 10 February 2014.
  5. 1 2 Ireland H, Pennington RT. (2013). "A revision of Geoffroea (Leguminosae: Papilionoideae)" (PDF). Edinb J Bot 56 (3): 329–347.

See also

  • Burkart, A. E. Las leguminosas Argentinas - silvestres y cultivadas 2nd Edition. 1952
  • Howard, R. A. The Enumeratio and Selectarum of Nicolaus von Jacquin 1973
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