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Geoffroea
Sign in to saveGeoffroea is a rather small genus of wild spiny shrubs or small trees of tropical and subtropical South America. Although it gathers few species, they are highly extended geographically throughout the subcontinent. Each species is well known in its local area, as seen from the varied (and mostly domestic) usage of these trees as food, timber, or fuel. It was recently assigned to the informal monophyletic Pterocarpus clade within the Dalbergieae.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderFabales
- FamilyFabaceae
General: ), based on DNA sequence data, resolved Geoffroea
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 21
- With media
- 20
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Collections
- MO, B, JBRJ, IPA, MNHN, BRIT
- Recorded in
- Paraguay, Bolivia, Venezuela, Equador, Brasil, [Guyane], Argentine, French Guiana
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Dalbergieae
- Image
- Taque (Geoffroea spinosa) en Montecano.jpg
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- taxon name
- Geoffroea
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Geoffroea
- Commons category
- Geoffroea
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Encyclopedic overview
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Geoffroea is a rather small genus of wild spiny shrubs or small trees of tropical and subtropical South America. Although it gathers few species, they are highly extended geographically throughout the subcontinent. Each species is well known in its local area, as seen from the varied (and mostly domestic) usage of these trees as food, timber, or fuel. It was recently assigned to the informal monophyletic Pterocarpus clade within the Dalbergieae.
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Geoffroea” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.