Harpalyce (plant)

Harpalyce
Harpalyce brasiliana
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Tribe: Brongniartieae
Genus: Harpalyce
Moç. & Sessé ex DC. (1827)
Species

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Range of Harpalyce[1]

Harpalyce is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae. It includes 35 species of shrubs and small trees native to the tropical Americas. Their distribution is disjunct, ranging from Mexico to Nicaragua, Cuba, and northern to southeastern Brazil and Bolivia. Typical habitats include seasonally-dry tropical forest, warm-temperate humid forest, woodland, bushland and thicket, shrubland, and grassland. Most species are evergreen and flower during the dry season.[2]

  1. ^ Thompson IR, Ladiges PY, Ross JH (2001). "Phylogenetic studies of the tribe Brongniartieae (Fabaceae) using nuclear DNA (ITS-1) and morphological data". Syst Bot. 26 (3): 557–570. doi:10.1043/0363-6445-26.3.557 (inactive 1 November 2024). JSTOR 3093981.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024 (link)
  2. ^ Harpalyce Moc. & Sessé ex DC. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 1 September 2023.