Biology:Tara (plant)

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Short description: Genus of legumes


Tara
Caesalpinia spinosa 5c.JPG
Tara spinosa
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Caesalpinioideae
Tribe: Caesalpinieae
Genus: Tara
Molina (1810)
Type species
Tara spinosa
(Feuillé ex Molina) Britton & Rose
Species[1]

3; see text

Synonyms[2][1]
  • Nicarago Britton & Rose (1930)
  • Russellodendron Britton & Rose (1930)

Tara is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It includes three species of trees and shrubs native to the tropical Americas, from northern Mexico through Central America, the Caribbean, and western South America to Bolivia and Central Chile. Typical habitats include seasonally-dry tropical forest and semi-arid thorn scrub.[1] It belongs to tribe Caesalpinieae[2] of subfamily Caesalpinioideae.[3]

Species

Tara comprises the following species:[2]

  • Tara cacalaco (Humb. & Bonpl.) Molinari & Sánchez Och.
  • Tara spinosa (Feuillé ex Molina) Britton & Rose — Tara (Peru)
  • Tara vesicaria (L.) Molinari, Sánchez Och. & Mayta

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Tara Molina. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 22 September 2023.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Gagnon E, Bruneau A, Hughes CE, de Queiroz LP, Lewis GP. (2016). "A new generic system for the pantropical Caesalpinia group (Leguminosae)". PhytoKeys (71): 1–160. doi:10.3897/phytokeys.71.9203. PMID 28814915. 
  3. The Legume Phylogeny Working Group (LPWG). (2017). "A new subfamily classification of the Leguminosae based on a taxonomically comprehensive phylogeny". Taxon 66 (1): 44–77. doi:10.12705/661.3. 

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