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Amphimas

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Amphimas is a small genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae. It is a west African tree used for medicine and for wood. Amphimas was traditionally assigned to the tribe Sophoreae; however, recent molecular phylogenetic analyses reassigned Amphimas into an unspecified position in the Meso-Papilionoideae.

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It sits within the topics Fabaceae genera, Faboideae and Flora of the Afrotropical realm.

Its subject is documented across 11 Wikipedia language editions.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumTracheophyta
  3. ClassMagnoliopsida
  4. OrderFabales
  5. FamilyFabaceae
Native toAngola, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, DR Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia
Observations recorded1,246

General: ., and on the basis of floral morphology Amphimas does appear to group Use: Amphimas pterocarpoides Harms (bokanga, lati, yaya) is used

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
6
With media
3
Family
Fabaceae
Collections
MO, MNHN
Recorded in
Cameroon, Gabon, Congo

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Amphimas is a small genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae. It is a west African tree used for medicine and for wood. Amphimas was traditionally assigned to the tribe Sophoreae; however, recent molecular phylogenetic analyses reassigned Amphimas into an unspecified position in the Meso-Papilionoideae.

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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Amphimas” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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