Mimozyganthus | |
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Scientific classification
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Fabales |
Family: | Fabaceae |
Subfamily: | Caesalpinioideae |
Clade: | Mimosoid clade |
Genus: |
Mimozyganthus Burkart (1939) |
Species: | M. carinatus
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Binomial name | |
Mimozyganthus carinatus (
Griseb.) Burkart (1939)
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Synonyms [1] | |
Mimosa carinata Griseb. (1879) |
Mimozyganthus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It includes a single species, Mimozyganthus carinatus, a tree native to Bolivia, Paraguay, and northwestern Argentina, where it is known by the common names iscayante and lata. [1] It belongs to the mimosoid clade of the subfamily Caesalpinioideae. [2]