The tribeOrmosieae is one of the subdivisions of the plant familyFabaceae, primarily found in tropical regions of the Americas, but also in southeast Asia and northern Australia.[1][3] The members of this tribe were formerly included in tribe Sophoreae,[4] but were recently circumscribed into a new tribe.[2][1][5] The members of this tribe consistently form a monophyletic clade in molecular phylogenetic analyses.[1][6][7][8][9][10][11] The tribe does not currently have a node-based definition, but morphological synapomorphies have been tentatively identified: "mostly dehiscent pods with woody valves"[1] and "tufts of minute colleter-like glands in the axils of bract and bracteoles".[1] Like other genistoids, members of tribe Ormosieae are known to produce quinolizidine alkaloids.[12]
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^Polhill RM. (1981). "Sophoreae". In Polhill RM, Raven PH (eds.). Advances in Legume Systematics, Parts 1 and 2. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. pp. 213–230. ISBN9780855212247. Archived from the original on 2013-07-23. Retrieved 2014-05-20.