Pterolobium

The genus, Pterolobium (from Gr. πτερόν pterón, meaning "wing", and λόβιον lóbion, meaning "pod" or "capsule", alluding to the winged fruit), consists of 10 species of perennial flowering plants in the family Fabaceae, subfamily Caesalpinioideae[1] and tribe Caesalpinieae.[2] They sometimes called redwing flowers and are native to the tropical to subtropical climes of Africa and Asia, including Indonesia and the Philippines. They are large scrambling or climbing shrubs that grow in riverside thickets, on rocky slopes or at forest margins. They bear colourful samara fruit, and have pairs of thorns below the rachis of their bipinnate leaves.

Pterolobium
The Camp Siege (P. hexapetalum) in India
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Tribe: Caesalpinieae
Genus: Pterolobium
R.Br. ex Wight & Arn., 1834, nom. cons.
Type species
Pterolobium stellatum
(Forssk.) Brenan
Species

See text

Synonyms
  • Cantuffa J. F. Gmel. 1791
  • Pterolobium Andrz. ex C. A. Mey.
  • Reichardia Roth 1821, nom. illeg.

Species

Pterolobium comprises the following species:[2]

References

  1. 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.
  2. Gagnon E, Bruneau A, Hughes CE, de Queiroz LP, Lewis GP (2016). "A new generic system for the pantropical Caesalpinia group (Leguminosae)". PhytoKeys. 71 (71): 1–160. doi:10.3897/phytokeys.71.9203. PMC 5558824. PMID 28814915.


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