Pityrocarpa
Scientific classification Edit this 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)
Species[1]

7; see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Monoschisma Brenan (1955), nom. illeg.
  • Piptadenia sect. Pityrocarpa Benth. & Hook.f. (1875)[2]
  • Pseudopiptadenia Rauschert (1982)

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]

References

  1. ^ a b c Pityrocarpa (Benth. & Hook.f.) Britton & Rose. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 14 September 2023.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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. hdl:10568/90658.
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