Macropsychanthus is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It belongs to the tribe Diocleae, subfamily Faboideae.[3] The genus has 47 species with a pantropical distribution, ranging through the tropical Americas from southern Mexico to northeastern Argentina, west and central Africa, Madagascar, Indochina, Malesia, Papuasia, and Queensland.[2]

Macropsychanthus
Macropsychanthus edulis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Tribe: Diocleae
Genus: Macropsychanthus
Harms[1]
Species

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Synonyms[2]

Luzonia Elmer (1907)

Taxonomy

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Many species of Dioclea were transferred to the genus Macropsychanthus as a result of a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2020.[4]

Species

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As of August 2021, Plants of the World Online accepted the following species:[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Macropsychanthus Harms", Plants of the World Online, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, retrieved 2021-08-28
  2. ^ a b Macropsychanthus Harms. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 17 August 2023.
  3. ^ de Queiroz LP, Pastore JF, Cardoso D, Snak C, de C Lima AL, Gagnon E, Vatanparast M, Holland AE, Egan AN (2015). "A multilocus phylogenetic analysis reveals the monophyly of a recircumscribed papilionoid legume tribe Diocleae with well-supported generic relationships". Mol Phylogenet Evol. 90: 1–19. Bibcode:2015MolPE..90....1D. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2015.04.016. PMID 25934529.
  4. ^ de Queiroz, Luciano Paganucci & Snak, Cristiane (2020). "Revisiting the taxonomy of Dioclea and related genera (Leguminosae, Papilionoideae), with new generic circumscriptions". PhytoKeys (164): 67–114. doi:10.3897/phytokeys.164.55441. PMC 8359005. PMID 34531697.