Guianodendron

Taxobox
name = "Guianodendron"
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Fabales
familia = Fabaceae
subfamilia = Faboideae
tribus = Sophoreae
genus = "Guianodendron"
genus_authority = Sch. Rodr. & A.M.G. Azevedo
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = "Guianodendron praeclarum"

"Guianodendron" Sch. Rodr. & A.M.G. Azevedo is a South American monospecific genus endemic to the Guiana Shield. It has been segregated from "Acosmium" based on its unique combination of vegetative and floral traits, and it is putatively related to "Diplotropis".

References

* Rodrigues, Rodrigo Schütz, Tozzi, Ana Maria Goulart de Azevedo. (2006). Guianodendron, a new genus of Leguminosae from South America. "Novon" 16(1): 130-133.
* Rodrigues, Rodrigo Schütz, Tozzi, Ana Maria Goulart de Azevedo. (2007). "Morphological analysis and re-examination of the taxonomic circumscription of Acosmium (Leguminosae, Papilionoideae, Sophoreae)". "Taxon" 56(2): 439-452.

External links

* [http://www.freewebs.com/angiospermas/index.htm] Grupo de Pesquisas Sistemática e Morfologia de Angiospermas - Universidade Federal de Roraima, Boa Vista, Roraima, Brazil.