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Zollernia
Sign in to saveZollernia is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It includes 10 species native to South America, ranging from Venezuela and the Guianas to southern Brazil. Zollernia are trees or shrubs that flower annually. Species are most commonly found in dense moist forests, but also grow in seasonally-dry cerrado (savanna and open woodland) and caatinga (deciduous thorn woodland and scrub).
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderFabales
- FamilyFabaceae
General: Zollernia is a South American genus, occurring from
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 171
- With media
- 34
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Collections
- MO, NY, UFC, UNITINS, UFPB, UFPE
- Recorded in
- Guyana, Brazil, Brasil
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- Zollernia latifolia Benth..jpg
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Zollernia is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It includes 10 species native to South America, ranging from Venezuela and the Guianas to southern Brazil. Zollernia are trees or shrubs that flower annually. Species are most commonly found in dense moist forests, but also grow in seasonally-dry cerrado (savanna and open woodland) and caatinga (deciduous thorn woodland and scrub).
Leaves of Zollernia ilicifolia are used medicinally as an analgesic and antiulcerogenic by the peoples of the Brazilian tropical Atlantic Rainforest.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Zollernia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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