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Clitoriopsis
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Tribe: Phaseoleae
Subtribe: Clitoriinae
Genus: Clitoriopsis
R.Wilczek (1954)
Species:
C. mollis
Binomial name
Clitoriopsis mollis
R.Wilczek (1954)

Clitoriopsis is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. [1] It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae. The genus contains a single species, Clitoriopsis mollis, a subshrub native to South Sudan and Democratic Republic of the Congo. [2] [3] It grows in seasonally-dry tropical forest margins, woodland, and wooded grassland. [2]

References

  1. ^ FANTZ, PAUL R. (1996). "Resegregation of "Barbieria" from "Clitoria" (Leguminosae: Phaseoleae: Clitoriinae)". SIDA, Contributions to Botany. 17 (1): 55–68. ISSN  0036-1488. JSTOR  41960950.
  2. ^ a b Clitoriopsis R.Wilczek. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 16 August 2023.
  3. ^ de Queiroz, Luciano Paganucci; Pastore, José Floriano B.; Cardoso, Domingos; Snak, Cristiane; de C. Lima, Ana Luísa; Gagnon, Edeline; Vatanparast, Mohammad; Holland, Ailsa E.; Egan, Ashley N. (2015-09-01). "A multilocus phylogenetic analysis reveals the monophyly of a recircumscribed papilionoid legume tribe Diocleae with well-supported generic relationships". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 90: 1–19. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2015.04.016. ISSN  1055-7903. PMID  25934529.