Platypodium

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Platypodium
An illustration of Platypodium elegans from the Flora Brasiliensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Tribe: Dalbergieae
Genus: Platypodium
Vogel (1837)
Species[1]
Synonyms[1]

Callisemaea Benth. (1837)

Platypodium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It includes two species of trees native to the tropical Americas, from Panama through Colombia, Venezuela, and Brazil to Bolivia and Paraguay. Typical habitats are seasonally-dry tropical forest, humid gallery or riverine forest, thicket, and woodland.[1] It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae, and has been assigned to the informal monophyletic Pterocarpus clade within the Dalbergieae.[2][3]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Platypodium Vogel". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2023. Retrieved 15 September 2023.
  2. PMID 11250829
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  3. doi:10.1016/j.sajb.2013.05.001
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