Stryphnodendron is a genus of flowering plant in the legume family, Fabaceae. It includes 28 species of trees and suffrutices native to the tropical Americas, ranging from Nicaragua to Bolivia, Paraguay, and southern Brazil. Typical habitats include tropical rain forest and riparian forest, seasonally dry forest, cerrado (open woodland and savanna), and caatinga (thorn scrub).[1] It belongs to the mimosoid clade of the subfamily Caesalpinioideae.[2]

Stryphnodendron
Stryphnodendron adstringens
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Caesalpinioideae
Clade: Mimosoid clade
Genus: Stryphnodendron
Mart. (1837)
Species[1]

28; see text

Synonyms[1]

Folianthera Raf. (1838)

Species

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Stryphnodendron comprises the following species:[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d Stryphnodendron Mart. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 21 September 2023.
  2. ^ 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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