Melanoxylum is genus of plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It includes a single species, Melanoxylum brauna, the yellow-flowered brauna tree. It is native to eastern Brazil.[2] The genus is part of subfamily Caesalpinioideae.[3]
Melanoxylum | |
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Flowers and seed pods of the Brauna tree | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Fabales |
Family: | Fabaceae |
Subfamily: | Caesalpinioideae |
Genus: | Melanoxylum Schott (1822) |
Species: | M. brauna
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Binomial name | |
Melanoxylum brauna Schott (1827)
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Synonyms[1][2] | |
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References
edit- ^ Melanoxylum Schott. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 6 September 2023
- ^ a b Melanoxylum brauna Schott. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 6 September 2023.
- ^ 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. hdl:10568/90658.