Zygia
Zygia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It includes 60 species of tres and shrubs native to the tropical Americas, from Southern Mexico and Cuba to northern Argentina. Typical habitats are tropical forest and coastal zones, generally below 900 meters elevation with a few species extending up to 2800 meters. It belongs to the mimosoid clade of the subfamily Caesalpinioideae.
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Genus
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderFabales
- FamilyFabaceae
Native toArgentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba
General: as such in this work based on macro-morphological evidence; Zygia has not yet
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Zygia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It includes 60 species of tres and shrubs native to the tropical Americas, from Southern Mexico and Cuba to northern Argentina. Typical habitats are tropical forest and coastal zones, generally below 900 meters elevation with a few species extending up to 2800 meters. It belongs to the mimosoid clade of the subfamily Caesalpinioideae.
==Species== 56 species are accepted: Zygia ampla Zygia andaquiensis Zygia bangii Zygia basijuga Zygia biflora Zygia bifoliola Zygia bisingula Zygia brenesii Zygia cataractae (Kunth) L.Rico Zygia cauliflora Zygia claviflora (Spruce ex Benth.) Barneby & J.W.Grimes Zygia coccinea Zygia coccinea var. coccinea Zygia coccinea var.macrophylla Zygia coccinea var. oriunda (syn. Zygia oriunda (J.F.Macbr.) L.Rico) (Peru) Zygia codonocalyx Zygia cognata (Schltdl.) Britton & Rose (Belize, Guatemala, Honduras) Zygia collina (Sandwith) Barneby & J.W.Grimes Zygia confusa Zygia conzattii Zygia cupirensis Zygia cuspidata Zygia dinizii (Ducke) D.A.Neill et al. Zygia dissitiflora Zygia engelsingii Zygia eperuetorum Zygia garcia-barrigae Zygia guinetii Zygia hernandezii Zygia heteroneura Zygia inaequalis (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Pittier Zygia juruana (Harms) L.Rico Zygia lathetica Zygia latifolia (L.) Fawc. & Rendle Zygia lehmannii (Harms) Britton & Rose ex Britton & Killip (Colombia) Zygia longifolia Zygia macbridei Zygia megistocarpa Zygia morongii Zygia multipunctata Zygia nubigena Zygia obolingoides Zygia ocumarensis Zygia odoratissima Zygia palustris Zygia paucijugata Zygia peckii Zygia picramnioides Zygia pithecolobioides (Kuntze) Barneby & J.W.Grimes – Granadillo de Río (Argentina, Paraguay) Zygia potaroensis Zygia racemosa (Ducke) Barneby & J.W.Grimes Zygia rhytidocarpa Zygia rubiginosa Zygia selloi (Benth.) L.Rico Zygia steyermarkii (Schery) Barneby & J.W.Grimes (Ecuador) Zygia tetragona Zygia transamazonica Zygia trunciflora Zygia turneri Zygia unifoliolata Zygia vasquezii