Fabaceae

Macrosamanea Britton & Rose

First published in Ann. New York Acad. Sci. 35: 131 (1936)
This genus is accepted
The native range of this genus is S. Tropical America.

Descriptions

Legumes of the World. Edited by G. Lewis, B. Schrire, B. MacKinder & M. Lock. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. (2005)

Habit
Trees and shrubs
Ecology
Tropical, mostly riparian and seasonally flooded forest, 2 spp. of seasonally wet sandy wooded grassland (savanna)
Distribution
S America, most diverse and numerous in the Amazon basin extending N into the Orinoco valley and the Guianas
Note
Largely equivalent to 'Genus D' of Nielsen (1981a); placed by Barneby & Grimes (1996) in their 'Inga-alliance'. Nectaries occur on floral bracts in most species and are unique to the genus in neotropical Ingeae
[LOWO]

Sources

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Legumes of the World Online

    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • World Checklist of Vascular plants (WCVP)

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0