Macroptilium

Macroptilium is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae.

Macroptilium
Macroptilium lathyroides
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subtribe: Phaseolinae
Genus: Macroptilium
(Benth.) Urb.
Type species
Macroptilium lathyroides
(L.) Urb.
Species

See text.

Species

Macroptilium is made up of 19 species segregated into two monophyletic sections.[1][2]

Section Macroptilium
  • Macroptilium atropurpureum
  • Macroptilium bracteatum
  • Macroptilium erythroloma
  • Macroptilium ecuadoriensis
  • Macroptilium gracile
  • Macroptilium lathyroides
  • Macroptilium longepedunculatum
  • Macroptilium monophyllum
  • Macroptilium panduratum

Section Microcochle
  • Macroptilium arenarium
  • Macroptilium cochleatum
  • Macroptilium fraternum
  • Macroptilium gibbosifolium (Ortega) A. Delgado
  • Macroptilium martii
  • Macroptilium pedatum
  • Macroptilium prostratum
  • Macroptilium psammodes
  • Macroptilium sabaraense
  • Macroptilium supinum


References
  1. Espert SM, Drewes SI, Burghardt AD (2007). "Phylogeny of Macroptilium (Leguminosae): morphological, biochemical and molecular evidence". Cladistics. 23 (2): 119–129. doi:10.1111/j.1096-0031.2006.00140.x.
  2. Delgado-Salinas A, Lewis GP (2008). "A new species of Macroptilium (Benth.) Urb. (Leguminosae: Papilionoideae: Phaseolinae) from North-Eastern Brazil". Kew Bull. 63 (1): 151–154. doi:10.1007/s12225-007-9010-x.


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