Poecilanthe is a genus of
flowering plants in the family
Fabaceae. It includes 9 species of trees and shrubs native to eastern, southern, and west-central Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, and northeastern Argentina. They grow in seasonally-dry tropical forest, woodland, thicket, and riverine forest.[1]
Several
Amazonian species formerly classed in Poelicanthe were reclassified into the new genera Amphiodon and Limadendron based on a 2014 molecular and morphogenetic analysis.[2]
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abMeireles JE, Azevedo-Tozzi AMG, Lavin M (2014). "A phylogenetic analysis of molecular and morphological data reveals a paraphyletic Poecilanthe (Leguminosae, Papilionoideae)". Syst Bot. 39 (4): 1142–1149.
doi:
10.1600/036364414X683912.
^"ILDIS LegumeWeb entry for Poecilanthe". International Legume Database & Information Service. Cardiff School of Computer Science & Informatics. Retrieved 21 February 2014.
^Meireles JE, Azevedo-Tozzi AMG (2014). "Limadendron: a new genus of Leguminosae (Papilionoideae, Brongniartieae) from South America". Plant Syst Evol. 301 (2): 701–707.
doi:
10.1007/s00606-014-1108-7.