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Tachigali
Flowering T. paniculata in Bonfinópolis de Minas, Brazil
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Caesalpinioideae
Clade: Tachigali clade
Genus: Tachigali
Aubl. (1775)
Species

Several, see text

Synonyms [1]
  • Cuba Scop. (1777)
  • Cubaea Schreb. (1789)
  • Sclerolobium Vogel (1837)
  • Tachia Pers. (1805), nom. illeg.
  • Valentinia Neck. (1790), opus utique oppr.

Tachigali is a flowering plant genus in the legume family ( Fabaceae). It includes 74 species of trees native to the tropical Americas, ranging from Nicaragua to Bolivia, Paraguay, and southern Brazil. Typical habitats include tropical rain forest, lower montane forest, seasonally-flooded and non-flooded evergreen lowland forest and woodland, gallery and riparian forest, sometimes on white sands, cerrado and other dry woodland, and rocky grassland. [1] [2]

Species

As of April 2023, Plants of the World Online accepted the following species: [1]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Tachigali Aubl." Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 2023-04-17.
  2. ^ van der Werff, Henk (2008). "A Synopsis of the Genus Tachigali (Leguminosae: Caesalpinioideae) in Northern South America". Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 95 (4): 618–661. doi: 10.3417/2007159.

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