Parapiptadenia
| Parapiptadenia | |
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| Parapiptadenia rigida | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Subfamily: | Caesalpinioideae |
| Clade: | Mimosoid clade |
| Genus: | Parapiptadenia Brenan (1963) |
| Species[1] | |
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6; see text | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Piptadenia Benth. (1841), nom. illeg. | |
Parapiptadenia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It includes six species of trees and shrubs native to eastern and southern Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, and northern Argentina. Typical habitats include tropical coastal and dune forest (restinga), woodland, scrub, and secondary growth forest.[1] It belongs to the mimosoid clade of the subfamily Caesalpinioideae.[2]
Species
Six species are accepted:[1]
- Parapiptadenia blanchetii (Benth.) Vaz & M.P.Lima
- Parapiptadenia excelsa (Griseb.) Burkart
- Parapiptadenia ilheusana G.P.Lewis
- Parapiptadenia pterosperma (Benth.) Brenan
- Parapiptadenia rigida (Benth.) Brenan
- Parapiptadenia zehntneri (Harms) M.P.Lima & H.C.Lima
References
- ^ a b c d Parapiptadenia Brenan. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 13 September 2023.
- ^ 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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