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Tetrapleura (plant)

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Tetrapleura
Tetrapleura tetraptera
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Caesalpinioideae
Clade: Mimosoid clade
Genus: Tetrapleura
Benth. (1841)

Tetrapleura is a genus of flowering plants in the mimosoid clade of the family Fabaceae.[1] It includes two species of trees native to sub-Saharan Africa, ranging from Senegal to Kenya and Tanzania, and south to Angola. They grow in tropical lowland rain forest, secondary thicket, and fringing forest in the Guineo-Congolian forest and Lake Victoria basin.[2]

Species in this genus include:[2]

References

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  1. ^ 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. hdl:10568/90658.
  2. ^ a b "Tetrapleura Benth". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanical Gardens Kew. Retrieved 22 September 2023.