| Tylosema | |
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| Marama bean | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Subfamily: | Cercidoideae |
| Tribe: | Bauhinieae |
| Genus: | Tylosema (Schweinf.) Torre & Hillc. |
| Type species | |
| Tylosema fassoglensis (Kotschy ex Schweinf.) Torre & Hillc.
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| Species | |
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4–5; see text | |
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| The range of Tylosema. | |
The genus Tylosema is in the plant family Fabaceae and encompasses four accepted species of perennial legumes native to southern and central Africa. These are semi-woody viniferous plants broadly distributed from Sudan and Ethiopia south to Angola and South Africa.[1] Coetzer and Ross[2] originally described four Tylosema species:
- ^ Hartley ML, Tshamekeng E, Thomas SM (2002). "Functional Heterostyly in Tylosema esculentum (Caesalpinioideae)". Annals of Botany. 89 (1): 67–76. doi:10.1093/aob/mcf006. PMC 4233773. PMID 12096820.
- ^ Coetzer, L. A., and J. H. Ross. 1977. Tylosema. In Ross, J. H., ed., Fl. Southern Africa 16(2):61-64