Biology:Painteria

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Short description: Genus of legumes

Painteria
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Painteria revoluta
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Caesalpinioideae
Clade: Mimosoid clade
Genus: Painteria
Britton & Rose (1928)
Species[1]

2; see text

Painteria is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It includes two species of shrubs or small trees native to Mexico. Typical habitats include desert grassland and shrubland (matorral) on the Mexican Plateau, and in the lowlands of Tamaulipas in northeastern Mexico.[1] It belongs to the mimosoid clade of the subfamily Caesalpinioideae.[2]

Species include:[1]

  • Painteria elachistophylla (A.Gray ex S.Watson) Britton & Rose
  • Painteria leptophylla (Rose) Britton & Rose

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Painteria Britton & Rose. Plants of the World Online, Kew Science. Retrieved 13 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. 

Wikidata ☰ Q939707 entry