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Swartzia

Gentis, Nicolas;Licht, Alexis;Boura, Anaïs;Aung, Dario De Franceschi Zaw Win Day Wa;Dupont-Nivet, Guillaume

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Swartzia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It was named in honor of Swedish botanist Olof Swartz and contains about 200 species. Swartzia is restricted in its geographical distribution to the New World Tropics, where it occurs primarily in lowland rainforests, but also in savannas, pre-montane forests, and tropical dry forests. While it can be found throughout the wet lowlands from Mexico and the Caribbean islands to southern Brazil and Bolivia, Swartzia is most abundant and species-rich in Amazonia, where 10–20 species may co-occur at a single site. The species of Swartzi

Species

KINGDOM

  1. KingdomPlantae
FamilyFabaceae
Native toBelize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador
Observations recorded610,507,846

General: (Ireland et al., 2000; Pennington et al., 2001), Swartzia emerges Use: Used for timber (Swartzia species variously known

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
2,427
With media
594
Family
Fabaceae
Collections
IBUNAM, INECOL, UCMP, NY, F, USF
Recorded in
Mexico, United States, Brazil, Ecuador, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Brasil
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Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Swartzieae
Named after
Olof Swartz
Image
Swartzia myrtifolia Taub98.png
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taxon rank
genus
taxon name
Swartzia
Commons category
Swartzia
topic's main category
Category:Swartzia
GRIN URL
npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomygenus.aspx?id=11740
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