Biology:Lecointea

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Short description: Genus of legumes

Lecointea
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Tribe: Exostyleae
Genus: Lecointea
Ducke (1922)
Species[1]

7; see text

Synonyms[1]

Beliceodendron Lundell (1975)

Lecointea is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It contains seven species native to the tropical Americas.[1][2]

  • Lecointea amazonica Ducke
  • Lecointea guianensis M.Yu.Gontsch. & Yakovlev
  • Lecointea hatschbachii Barneby
  • Lecointea lasiogyne (Barneby) M.Yu.Gontsch. & Yakovlev
  • Lecointea marcano-bertii Barneby
  • Lecointea ovalifolia J.F.Macbr.
  • Lecointea peruviana Standl. ex J.F.Macbr.

Its native range stretches from south-eastern Mexico to southern Tropical America. It is found in Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela.[1]

The genus name of Lecointea is in honour of Paul Georges Aimé Le Cointe (1870–1956), a French botanist who worked in Brazil. He was also the director of a museum in Belém.[3] It was first described and published in Arch. Jard. Bot. Rio de Janeiro Vol.3 on page 128 in 1922.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Lecointea Ducke | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science" (in en). https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:294713-2. 
  2. "ILDIS LegumeWeb entry for Lecointea". Cardiff School of Computer Science & Informatics. http://www.ildis.org/LegumeWeb?version~10.01&genus~Lecointea&species~. Retrieved 1 February 2014. 
  3. Burkhardt, Lotte (2018) (in German) (pdf). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition. Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2018. Retrieved 1 January 2021. 

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