Stryphnodendron

Stryphnodendron is a genus of flowering plant in the legume family, Fabaceae. It includes 28 species of trees and suffrutices native to the tropical Americas, ranging from Nicaragua to Bolivia, Paraguay, and southern Brazil. Typical habitats include tropical rain forest and riparian forest, seasonally dry forest, cerrado (open woodland and savanna), and caatinga (thorn scrub). It belongs to the mimosoid clade of the subfamily Caesalpinioideae.

Stryphnodendron
Stryphnodendron adstringens
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Caesalpinioideae
Clade: Mimosoid clade
Genus: Stryphnodendron
Mart. (1837)
Species

28; see text

Synonyms

Folianthera Raf. (1838)

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