Oxystigma

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Oxystigma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Tribe: Detarieae
Genus: Oxystigma

Oxystigma is a genus of about five[1] species of legume in the Fabaceae family. Four species are native to rain forests of western and central Africa and one, Oxystigma msoo, is native to eastern Africa.[1]

It contains the following species:

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 W. A. Rodgers (June 1983), "A Note on the Distribution and Conservation of Oxystigma msoo Harms (Caesalpiniaceae)", Bulletin du Jardin botanique national de Belgique / Bulletin van de National Plantentuin van België (National Botanic Garden of Belgium) 53 (1/2): 161–164, doi:10.2307/3668033, JSTOR 3668033 
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