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Cyamopsis tetragonoloba
The guar (from : gvār) or cluster bean, with the botanical name Cyamopsis tetragonoloba, is an annual legume and the source of guar gum. It is also known as gavar, gawar, or guvar bean.
The genus name Cyamopsis means bean-like (from : "bean" + : "view"). The specific name is from and (itself being a loanword of Ancient Greek λοβός) meaning four-squared-lobed.
Cyamopsis
Cyamopsis is a genus of the family Fabaceae. Its species are distributed across sub-Saharan Africa (southwestern Africa and the Sudanian and Somali-Masai regions), Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and India. Typical habitats include tropical seasonally-dry thorn scrub and grassland, often in floodplains, stream beds, and pans, and in open sandy or rocky areas.
Indigofereae
The tribe Indigofereae is a subdivision of the plant family Fabaceae. It is consistently recovered as a monophyletic clade in molecular phylogenies. The Indigofereae arose 30.0 ± 3.3 million years ago (in the Oligocene).
Rhynchotropis
Rhynchotropis is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It includes two species of herbs native to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, and Zambia. Typical habitats include seasonally-dry tropical woodland and wooded grassland in the northern Zambezian region, often in seasonally-damp or open sandy and rocky areas. It belongs to tribe Indigofereae of subfamily Faboideae.
Phylloxylon
Phylloxylon is a genus of flowering plants in the Indigofereae tribe of the family Fabaceae. There are seven species, all endemic to Madagascar.

Microcharis
Microcharis is a genus of flowering plants. It includes 36 species of herbs and shrublets native to Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. The genus is in tribe Indigofereae of family Fabaceae. Typical habitats include seasonally-dry tropical forest margins, woodland, thicket, wooded grassland, and grassland, often in damp, swampy, or riverine areas, or in shallow soil over rocks.
Indigastrum
Indigastrum is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Indigofereae of the family Fabaceae. It includes eight species native to sub-Saharan Africa, Yemen, India, and Australia.
Phylloxylon xiphoclada
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Phylloxylon xylophylloides
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Phylloxylon spinosa
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Phylloxylon arenicola
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Phylloxylon phillipsonii
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Phylloxylon decipiens
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Phylloxylon perrieri
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