Biology:Pomaria (plant)

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Short description: Genus of legumes


Pomaria
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Caesalpinioideae
Tribe: Caesalpinieae
Genus: Pomaria
Cav. (1799)
Type species
Pomaria glandulosa
Cav. 1799
Species[1]

16; see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Cladotrichium Vogel (1837)
  • Melanosticta DC. (1825)

Pomaria is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It includes 16 species of shrubs and perennial herbs native to North America (9 species, ranging from the central United States to southern Mexico), South America (4 species, ranging from southern Brazil to Paraguay and northern Argentina), and southern Africa (3 species in Namibia, Botswana, and South Africa). Typical habitats include drier subtropical grasslands and wooded grasslands, often on limestone, and degraded areas.[1] It belongs to tribe Caesalpinieae[2] of subfamily Caesalpinioideae.[3]

Species

Pomaria comprises the following species:[2][1]

  • Pomaria austrotexana B.B.Simpson
  • Pomaria brachycarpa (A.Gray) B.B.Simpson—Broadpad nicker
  • Pomaria burchellii (DC.) B.B.Simpson & G.P.Lewis
  • Pomaria canescens (Fisher) B.B.Simpson
  • Pomaria fruticosa (S. Watson) B.B.Simpson
  • Pomaria glandulosa Cav.
  • Pomaria jamesii (Torr. & A.Gray) Walp.
  • Pomaria lactea (Schinz) B.B.Simpson & G.P.Lewis
  • Pomaria melanosticta S.Schauer—Parry's holdback
  • Pomaria multijuga (S.Watson) B.B.Simpson
  • Pomaria parviflora (Micheli) B.B.Simpson & G.P.Lewis
  • Pomaria pilosa (Vogel) B.B.Simpson & G.P.Lewis
  • Pomaria rubicunda (Vogel) B.B.Simpson & G.P.Lewis
    • var. rubicunda (Vogel) B.B.Simpson & G.P.Lewis
    • var. hauthalii (Harms) B.B.Simpson & G.P.Lewis
  • Pomaria sandersonii (Harv.) B.B.Simpson & G.P.Lewis
  • Pomaria stipularis (Vogel) B.B.Simpson & G.P.Lewis
  • Pomaria wootonii (Britton) B.B.Simpson

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Pomaria Cav. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 16 September 2023.
  2. 2.0 2.1 "A new generic system for the pantropical Caesalpinia group (Leguminosae)". PhytoKeys (71): 1–160. 2016. doi:10.3897/phytokeys.71.9203. PMID 28814915. 
  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. 

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