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Luetzelburgia
Sign in to saveLuetzelburgia (common names include sucupira and angelim) is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It includes 14 species of trees and shrubs native to Brazil, Bolivia, and Colombia. Typical habitat is seasonally-dry tropical lowland woodland and wooded grassland, and occasionally lowland rain forests. The genus belongs to the subfamily Faboideae. It was traditionally assigned to the tribe Sophoreae, mainly on the basis of flower morphology; recent molecular phylogenetic analyses assigned Luetzelburgia into an informal, monophyletic clade called the "vataireoids". Keys fo
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It is catalogued under topics including Fabaceae genera, Faboideae and Flora of Southern America.
Its subject is documented across 8 Wikipedia language editions.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 98
- With media
- 29
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Collections
- UNIVASF, GH, CPATSA, JBRJ, CEPLAC, MO
- Recorded in
- Brasil, Brazil, Guyana
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- Luetzelburgia
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- Luetzelburgia
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- Category:Luetzelburgia
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- Harms
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Luetzelburgia (common names include sucupira and angelim) is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It includes 14 species of trees and shrubs native to Brazil, Bolivia, and Colombia. Typical habitat is seasonally-dry tropical lowland woodland and wooded grassland, and occasionally lowland rain forests. The genus belongs to the subfamily Faboideae. It was traditionally assigned to the tribe Sophoreae, mainly on the basis of flower morphology; recent molecular phylogenetic analyses assigned Luetzelburgia into an informal, monophyletic clade called the "vataireoids". Keys for the different species of Luetzelburgia have been published.
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Luetzelburgia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.