Geoffroea

Short description: Genus of legumes

Geoffroea

Flowering Geoffroea decorticans in detail
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Plantae
Clade:  | Tracheophytes
Clade:  | Angiosperms
Clade:  | Eudicots
Clade:  | Rosids
Order:  | Fabales
Family:  | Fabaceae
Subfamily:  | Faboideae
Tribe:  | Dalbergieae
Genus:  | Geoffroea
Jacq. (1760)
Type species
Geoffroea spinosa

Jacq.

Species[1][2][3]

* Geoffroea decorticans (Gillies ex Hook. & Arn.) Burkart
* Geoffroea spinosa Jacq.
* Geoffroea subtropicalis (Lillo) Mart.Carr.

Key:[3]

Range of Geoffroea decorticans.

Range of Geoffroea spinosa.

Synonyms[2]

* Geoffraea L. (1763), orth. var.
* Gourliea Gillies ex Hook. & Arn.(1833)
* Umari Adans. (1763)

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 assigned to the informal monophyletic Pterocarpus clade within the Dalbergieae.[4][5]

## References

1. ↑ "ILDIS LegumeWeb entry for Geoffroea". Cardiff School of Computer Science & Informatics. http://www.ildis.org/LegumeWeb?version~10.01&genus~Geoffroea&species~. Retrieved 10 February 2014.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Geoffroea Jacq. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 31 August 2023.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "A revision of Geoffroea (Leguminosae: Papilionoideae)". Edinb J Bot 56 (3): 329–347. 2013. doi:10.1017/S0960428600001293.
4. ↑ "The dalbergioid legumes (Fabaceae): delimitation of a pantropical monophyletic clade". Am J Bot 88 (3): 503–33. 2001. doi:10.2307/2657116. PMID 11250829.
5. ↑ "Reconstructing the deep-branching relationships of the papilionoid legumes". S Afr J Bot 89: 58–75. 2013. doi:10.1016/j.sajb.2013.05.001.

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