Biology:Vataireopsis

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Short description: Genus of legumes

Vataireopsis
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Clade: Vataireoids
Genus: Vataireopsis
Ducke (1932)
Species
  • Vataireopsis araroba (Aguiar) Ducke
  • Vataireopsis iglesiasii Ducke
  • Vataireopsis speciosa (Aguiar) Ducke
  • Vataireopsis surinamensis H.C.Lima

Vataireopsis is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It includes four species of small to emergent trees, native to northern South America, ranging from Colombia, Venezuela, and the Guianas to Bolivia and southern Brazil. They grow in tropical lowland rain forest, in both the Amazon and Atlantic Forest.[1]

It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae. It was traditionally assigned to the tribe Dalbergieae, mainly on the basis of flower morphology;[2] recent molecular phylogenetic analyses assigned Vataireopsis into an informal, monophyletic clade called the "vataireoids".[3][4]

References

  1. Vataireopsis Ducke. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
  2. Polhill RM (1981). "Dalbergieae". Advances in Legume Systematics, Part 1. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. pp. 233–242. ISBN 9780855212247. http://www.kewbooks.com/asps/ShowDetails.asp?id=318. 
  3. "Reconstructing the deep-branching relationships of the papilionoid legumes". S Afr J Bot 89: 58–75. 2013. doi:10.1016/j.sajb.2013.05.001. http://repository.uwc.ac.za/xmlui/bitstream/10566/3193/1/Cardoso_Reconstructing-the_2013.pdf. 
  4. "A molecular phylogeny of the vataireoid legumes underscores floral evolvability that is general to many early-branching papilionoid lineages.". Am J Bot 100 (2): 403–21. 2013. doi:10.3732/ajb.1200276. PMID 23378491. 

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