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Caesalpinioideae

(Subfamily)

Overview

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Mostly trees or shrubs. Leaves mostly pinnate, sometimes bipinnate, rarely apparently simple. Corolla usually showy, zygomorphic , the petals imbricate, posterior (upper or banner) petal innermost in bud. Stamens 10 or fewer, distinct, usually not showy, some commonly reduced to staminodes. Pollen released in monads. Seeds with u-shaped line (pleurogram) usually lacking. [Carr]

Taxonomy

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The Subfamily Caesalpinioideae is a member of the Family Leguminosae. Here is the complete "parentage" of Caesalpinioideae:

The Subfamily Caesalpinioideae is further organized into finer groupings including:

Genera

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Acrocarpus

Acrocarpus is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It belongs to the sub family Caesalpinioideae. [more]

Afzelia

Afzelia is a genus in the subfamily Caesalpinioideae of the family Fabaceae (legumes). The thirteen species all are trees, native to tropical Africa or Asia. [more]

Amherstia

Amherstia nobilis (Burmese: Pride of Burma, in the Fabaceae family) is a tropical tree with exceptionally beautiful[peacock term] flowers. It is the only member of the genus Amherstia. It is widely cultivated for ornament in the humid tropics, but is very rare in the wild and has only been collected from its native habitat a few times. It is native to Burma (Myanmar), hence the common name. The scientific name commemorates Lady Amherst, as does Lady Amherst's Pheasant. Another common name, the Orchid Tree, is otherwise reserved for members of the genus Bauhinia. [more]

Anthonotha

Anthonotha is a genus of legume in the Fabaceae family. It contains the following species: [more]

Aphanocalyx

Aphanocalyx is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It belongs to the sub family Caesalpinioideae. [more]

Apuleia

Apuleia is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It belongs to the sub family Caesalpinioideae. [more]

Arapatiella

Arapatiella is a genus of legume in the Fabaceae family. It contains the following species: [more]

Baikiaea

Baikiaea is a genus of legume in the Fabaceae family. It contains the following species: [more]

Balsamocarpon

Balsamocarpon is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It belongs to the sub family Caesalpinioideae. [more]

Batesia

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Bauhinia

Bauhinia is a genus of more than 200 species of flowering plants in the subfamily Caesalpinioideae of the large flowering plant family Fabaceae, with a pantropical distribution. The genus was named after the Bauhin brothers, Swiss-French botanists. [more]

Berlinia

Berlinia is a genus of in the Fabaceae family. It contains the following species: [more]

Brachystegia

Brachystegia is genus of tree of the sub-family that is native to tropical Africa. Trees of the genus are commonly known as Miombo, and are the predominant tree in the Miombo woodlands of central and southern Africa. [more]

Brenierea

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Brodriguesia

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Brownea

Brownea is a genus of about 30 species in the family Fabaceae, subfamily Caesalpinioideae. The genus is native to tropical regions of the Americas. The species are shrubs and trees growing to 20 m tall. [more]

Caesalpinia

Caesalpinia is the name of a genus of controversial size (different publications including between 70 and 165 species), consisting of tropical and subtropical woody plants. It is named after the botanist Andrea Cesalpino. [more]

Campsiandra

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Cassia

Cassia (Cinnamomum aromaticum, synonym C. cassia) is an evergreen tree native to southern China and Vietnam. Like its close relative, Cinnamon (Cinnamomum zeylanicum, also known as "true cinnamon" or "Ceylon cinnamon"), it is used primarily for its aromatic bark, which is used as a spice, often under the culinary name of "cinnamon". The buds are also used as a spice, especially in India and in Ancient Rome. [more]

Cenostigma

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Ceratonia

Ceratonia () is genus of flowering trees in the pea family, Fabaceae, that is endemic to the Mediterranean region. It belongs to the subfamily Caesalpinioideae, tribe Caesalpinieae. [more]

Cercis

Cercis (), is a genus of about 10 species in the subfamily Caesalpinioideae of the pea family Fabaceae, native to warm-temperate regions. It contains small deciduous trees or large shrubs commonly known as Redbuds. They are characterised by simple, rounded to heart-shaped leaves and pinkish-red flowers borne in the early spring on bare leafless shoots, on both branches and trunk ("cauliflory"). The name is derived from the Greek word ?e???? (kerkis), which was applied by Theophrastus to C. siliquastrum. [more]

Chamaecrista

Chamaecrista is a genus of flowering plants in the pea family, Fabaceae, subfamily Caesalpinioideae. Members of the genus are commonly known as sensitive pea. Several species are capable of rapid plant movement. [more]

Colvillea

Colvillea is a genus of legume in the Fabaceae family. It is named for Sir Charles Colville, an ex Governor of Mauritius. It contains the following species: [more]

Copaifera

Copaifera is a of plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. [more]

Cordeauxia

Cordeauxia edulis, also known as the ye'eb (yicib in Somali), yeheb or jeheb nut is a species of tree from the monotypic genus Cordeauxia. The tree is native to the Horn of Africa where it is found in semi-desert bushland in Somalia and Ethiopia. It is also grown as a cultivated species in Kenya and Sudan for food and the extraction of a purple-colored dye. The native populations of the species are threatened with extinction due to animal grazing and the use of the nutritious seed as a food source, which prevents the development of new trees. [more]

Cornus

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Crudia

Crudia is a of legume in the Fabaceae family. It contains the following species: [more]

Cynometra

Cynometra is genus of tropical forest trees with a pantropical distribution. It is particularly important as a forest component in west and the neotropics. Cynometra alexandri (muhimbi) is a familiar timber tree of central and east Africa. The genus is a member of the sub-family Caesalpinioideae. [more]

Daniellia

Daniellia is a genus of in the Fabaceae family, named after William Freeman Daniell. It contains the following species: [more]

Delonix

The Delonix forms part of the subfamily Caesalpinioideae of the pea family Fabaceae. The members of the genus are flowering trees, native to Madagascar and east Africa. By far the best known in the Royal Poinciana, Delonix regia. [more]

Detarium

Detarium is a plant genus of the family Fabaceae (legume family). It contains 3 species of tree in west African forests. [more]

Dialium

Dialium is a genus of in the Fabaceae family. It contains the following species: [more]

Dicorynia

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Dicymbe

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Dimorphandra

Dimorphandra is a genus of in the Fabaceae family. It includes the following species: [more]

Diptychandra

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Elizabetha

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Eperua

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Erythrophleum

Erythrophleum is a genus of in the Fabaceae family. A partial list of species includes: [more]

Gilbertiodendron

Gilbertiodendron is a genus of in the Fabaceae family. It contains the following species: [more]

Gleditsia

Gleditsia () is a genus of locust trees in the family Fabaceae, subfamily Caesalpinioideae, native to North America and Asia. The Latin name commemorates Johann Gottlieb Gleditsch, director of the Berlin Botanical Gardens, who died in 1786. [more]

Goniorrhachis

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Guibourtia

Guibourtia is a flowering plant genus in the family Fabaceae (legume family). It contains 16 species, native to tropical regions of Africa (13 species) and South America (3 species). They occur in swampy or periodically inundated forests, as well as near rivers or at lakeshores. [more]

Gymnocladus

Gymnocladus (Neo-Latin, from Greek ??????, gymnos, naked + ???d??, klados, branch) is a small genus of leguminous trees. [more]

Haematoxylum

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Heterostemon

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Hoffmannseggia

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Humboldtia

Humboldtia is a genus of in the Fabaceae family. It contains the following species: [more]

Hymenaea

Hymenaea L. is a genus in the flowering plant family Fabaceae (legume family). Of fourteen living species in the genus, all but one are native to the tropics of the Americas, with one additional species () on the east coast of Africa. Some authors place the African species in a separate monotypic genus, Trachylobium. In the neotropics, Hymenaea is distributed through the Caribbean islands, and from southern Mexico to Brazil. Linnaeus named the genus in 1753 in Species Plantarum for Hymenaios, the Greek god of marriage ceremonies. The name is a reference to the paired leaflets. [more]

Intsia

Intsia is a genus of in the Fabaceae family. It contains the following species: [more]

Isoberlinia

Isoberlinia is a genus in the family Fabaceae (legume family) of five species of tree native to the hotter parts of tropical Africa. They are an important component of miombo woodlands. The leaves have three or four pairs of large leaflets and stout seed pods. [more]

Julbernardia

Julbernardia is a genus of in the Fabaceae family. There are eight species found in tropical Africa. They are medium-sized trees. It contains the following species: [more]

Kingiodendron

Kingiodendron is a genus of in the Fabaceae family. It contains the following species: [more]

Koompassia

Koompassia is a of legume in the Fabaceae family occurring in southeast Asia. They are tall tropical rainforest trees; K. excelsa is one of the tallest tree species in the tropics. The genus contains the following three species: [more]

Labichea

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Lemuropisum

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Lophocarpinia

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Macrolobium

Macrolobium is a legume genus in the subfamily Caesalpinioideae. [more]

Maniltoa

Maniltoa is a genus of in the Fabaceae family. It contains the following species: [more]

Martiodendron

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Melanoxylon

Acacia melanoxylon, commonly known as the Australian Blackwood, is an Acacia species native in eastern Australia. The species is also known as Sally Wattle, Lightwood, Hickory, Mudgerabah, Tasmanian Blackwood or Black Wattle (???????? in Tamil ). [more]

Microberlinia

Microberlinia is a genus in the family Fabaceae (legume family). It includes two species of tree native to Cameroon and Gabon in West Africa. The common name is zingana or zebrawood. [more]

Moldenhawera

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Monopetalanthus

Monopetalanthus is a genus of in the Fabaceae family. It contains the following species: [more]

Mora

A Genus in the Kingdom Animalia. [more]

Paloue

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Parkinsonia

Parkinsonia (), also Cercidium /s?r's?di?m/, is a genus of flowering plants in the pea family, Fabaceae. It contains about 12 species that are native to semi-desert regions of Africa and the Americas. The name of the genus honors English apothecary and botanist John Parkinson (1567?1650). [more]

Pellegriniodendron

Pellegriniodendron is a genus of in the Fabaceae family. It contains the following species: [more]

Peltogyne

Peltogyne, known as Purpleheart, is a genus of 23 species of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae, native to tropical regions of Central and South America, where they occur in tropical rainforests. [more]

Petalostylis

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Pineus

A Genus in the Kingdom Animalia.[1] [more]

Poeppigia

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Prioria

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Pterogyne

Pterogyne is a genus of in the Fabaceae family. It contains the following species: [more]

Pterolobium

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Recordoxylon

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Saraca

Saraca L. is a genus in the family Fabaceae (legume family) of about seventy plant species of tree native to the lands from India, China and Ceylon to Malaysia and Celebes. [more]

Schizolobium

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Schotia

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Sclerolobium

Sclerolobium is a genus of in the Fabaceae family. It contains the following species: [more]

Scorodophloeus

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Senna

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Sindora

Sindora is a genus of in the Fabaceae family. It contains the following species: [more]

Tachigali

Tachigali is a genus in the legume family (Fabaceae). [more]

Tamarindus

Tamarind (Tamarindus indica) (from Arabic: ?, romanized tamar hind, "Indian date") is a tree in the family Fabaceae indigenous to tropical Africa. The genus Tamarindus is a monotypic taxon, having only a single species. The tamarind tree produces edible, pod-like fruit which are used extensively in cuisines around the world. [more]

Tessmannia

Tessmannia is a genus of in the Fabaceae family. It contains the following species: [more]

Tetraberlinia

Tetraberlinia is a genus of in the Fabaceae family. It contains the following species: [more]

Tylosema

The Tylosema is in the plant family Fabaceae. [more]

Vouacapoua

Vouacapoua is a genus of in the Fabaceae family. It contains the following species: [more]

Zenkerella

Zenkerella is a genus of legume in the Fabaceae family. It contains the following species: [more]

Zuccagnia

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At least 6 species and subspecies belong to the Genus Zuccagnia.

More info about the Genus Zuccagnia may be found here.

Footnotes

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  1. http://bugguide.net/index.php?q=search&keys=Pineus&search=Search

Sources

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Last Revised: August 24, 2012
2012/08/24 20:04:54