Parapiptadenia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It includes six species of trees and shrubs native to eastern and southern Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, and northern Argentina. Typical habitats include tropical coastal and dune forest (restinga), woodland, scrub, and secondary growth forest.[1] It belongs to the mimosoid clade of the subfamily Caesalpinioideae.[2]

Parapiptadenia
Parapiptadenia rigida
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Caesalpinioideae
Clade: Mimosoid clade
Genus: Parapiptadenia
Brenan (1963)
Species[1]

6; see text

Synonyms[1]

Piptadenia Benth. (1841), nom. illeg.

Species

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Six species are accepted:[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d Parapiptadenia Brenan. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 13 September 2023.
  2. ^ The Legume Phylogeny Working Group (LPWG). (2017). "A new subfamily classification of the Leguminosae based on a taxonomically comprehensive phylogeny". Taxon. 66 (1): 44–77. doi:10.12705/661.3. hdl:10568/90658.