Biology:Vatairea
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| Vatairea macrocarpa | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Subfamily: | Faboideae |
| Clade: | Vataireoids |
| Genus: | Vatairea Aubl. |
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Vatairea is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It includes eight species of tall trees native to the tropical Americas, ranging from southern Mexico to Bolivia and southern Brazil. Seven species are native to northern South America, with the center of diversity in Amazonia. Vatairea lundellii ranges from southern Mexico to Panama. Most species grow in tropical rain forest, often in the inudated forests known as igapó and varzea, where they are emergent trees, growing above the forest canopy. V. macrocarpa grows in seasonally-dry forest, cerrado (savanna and woodland), and caatinga (scrub forest).[1]
It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae. It was traditionally assigned to the tribe Dalbergieae, mainly on the basis of flower morphology;[2] recent molecular phylogenetic analyses assigned Vatairea into an informal, monophyletic clade called the "vataireoids".[3][4]
References
- ↑ Vatairea Aubl. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
- ↑ Polhill RM (1981). "Dalbergieae". Advances in Legume Systematics, Part 1. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. pp. 233–242. ISBN 9780855212247. http://www.kewbooks.com/asps/ShowDetails.asp?id=318.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ "A molecular phylogeny of the vataireoid legumes underscores floral evolvability that is general to many early-branching papilionoid lineages". Am J Bot 100 (2): 403–21. 2013. doi:10.3732/ajb.1200276. PMID 23378491.
Wikidata ☰ Q5220681 entry
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