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Bryaspis
Sign in to saveBryaspis is a small genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It includes two species of herbaceous plants native to equatorial West Africa and Cameroon. It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae, and was recently assigned to the informal monophyletic Dalbergia clade of the Dalbergieae. Typical habitats are seasonally dry tropical grassland and open areas, often growing in wet, swampy, rocky and sandy soil. Plants can be weeds on cultivated land.
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It is catalogued under topics including Dalbergieae, Fabaceae genera and Flora of the Afrotropical realm.
Its subject is documented across 8 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderFabales
- FamilyFabaceae
General: Rudd (1981) placed Bryaspis in tribe Aeschynomeneae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 6
- With media
- 5
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Collections
- A, MNHN
- Recorded in
- Senegal
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Dalbergieae
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- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon name
- Bryaspis
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Encyclopedic overview
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Bryaspis is a small genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It includes two species of herbaceous plants native to equatorial West Africa and Cameroon. It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae, and was recently assigned to the informal monophyletic Dalbergia clade of the Dalbergieae. Typical habitats are seasonally dry tropical grassland and open areas, often growing in wet, swampy, rocky and sandy soil. Plants can be weeds on cultivated land. Bryaspis humularioides Gledhill – Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia Bryaspis psittacorhyncha – Senegal to Guinea and Sierra Leone; Cameroon
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bryaspis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.