Swartzieae
Sign in to saveThe tribe Swartzieae is an early-branching monophyletic clade of the flowering plant subfamily Faboideae or Papilionaceae. Traditionally this tribe has been used as a wastebasket taxon to accommodate genera of Faboideae which exhibit actinomorphic, rather than zygomorphic floral symmetry and/or incompletely differentiated petals and free stamens. It was recently revised and most of its genera were redistributed to other tribes (Amburaneae, Baphieae, and Exostyleae). Under its new circumscription, this clade is consistently resolved in molecular phylogenies. Members of this tribe possess "non-p
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Within Vinony's link graph, Swartzieae is referenced by 15 other articles, and connects out to floral symmetry, plant and International Standard Book Number.
Vinony files it under Fabaceae tribes, Faboideae and Swartzieae.
Its subject is documented across 7 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Image
- Swartzia myrtifolia Taub98.png
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- Swartzieae
- taxon name
- Swartzieae
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- tribe
- topic's main category
- Category:Swartzieae
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Subclades and genera
- Swartzioids ''sensu stricto'' <small>Ireland ''et al''. 2000</small>
- Atelioids <small>Ireland ''et al''. 2000</small>
- References
The tribe Swartzieae is an early-branching monophyletic clade of the flowering plant subfamily Faboideae or Papilionaceae. Traditionally this tribe has been used as a wastebasket taxon to accommodate genera of Faboideae which exhibit actinomorphic, rather than zygomorphic floral symmetry and/or incompletely differentiated petals and free stamens. It was recently revised and most of its genera were redistributed to other tribes (Amburaneae, Baphieae, and Exostyleae). Under its new circumscription, this clade is consistently resolved in molecular phylogenies. Members of this tribe possess "non-papilionate swartzioid flowers[…]largely characterized by a tendency to lack petals combined with a profusion and elaboration of free stamens" and a "lack of unidirectional order in the initiation of the stamens". They also have "complete or near complete fusion of sepals resulting from intercalary growth early in development, relatively numerous stamens, and a single or no petal, with other petals not at all apparent in development." The tribe is predicted to have diverged from the other legume lineages 48.9±2.8 million years ago (in the Eocene).
==Subclades and genera==
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