Geoffroea

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Geoffroea

Flowering Geoffroea decorticans in detail
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Rosids
Order:	Fabales
Family:	Fabaceae
Subfamily:	Faboideae
Tribe:	Dalbergieae^[1]^[2]
Genus:	Geoffroea Jacq.
Species
Geoffroea decorticans Geoffroea inermis Geoffroea spinosa Geoffroea surinamensis

Geoffroea is a rather small genus of wild spiny shrubs or small trees of tropical and subtropical South America. Although it gathers few species, they are highly extended geographically throughout the subcontinent. Each species is well known in its local area, as seen from the varied (and mostly domestic) usage of these trees as food, timber or fuel. It was recently was recently assigned to the informal monophyletic Pterocarpus clade within the Dalbergieae.

Taxonomy of the Geoffroea genus is not an uncomplicated matter due to the large available number of binomial synonyms found in literature, sometimes referring to a same species. Also, this Fabaceae genus has been alternatively linked to the subfamily Papilionoideae or Faboideae (alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae or Fabaceae). Nevertheless, Geoffroeas are listed among the legumes to which they belong.

References

↑ Lavin M, Pennington RT, Klitgaard BB, Sprent JI, de Lima HC, Gasson PE. (2001). "The dalbergioid legumes (Fabaceae): delimitation of a pantropical monophyletic clade". Am J Bot 88 (3): 503–33. PMID 11250829.
↑ Cardoso D, Pennington RT, de Queiroz LP, Boatwright JS, Van Wykd B-E, Wojciechowskie MF, Lavin M. (2013). "Reconstructing the deep-branching relationships of the papilionoid legumes". S Afr J Bot 89: 58–75. doi:10.1016/j.sajb.2013.05.001.

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