Geoffroea
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| Flowering Geoffroea decorticans in detail | |
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Geoffroea
Jacq.
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| Geoffroea spinosa Jacq. |
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Range of Geoffroea decorticans.
Range of Geoffroea spinosa.
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Geoffroea is a rather small genus of wild spiny shrubs or small trees of tropical and subtropical South America. Although it gathers few species, they are highly extended geographically throughout the subcontinent. Each species is well known in its local area, as seen from the varied (and mostly domestic) usage of these trees as food, timber, or fuel. It was recently was recently assigned to the informal monophyletic Pterocarpus clade within the Dalbergieae.[1][2]
References
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See also
- Burkart, A. E. Las leguminosas Argentinas - silvestres y cultivadas 2nd Edition. 1952
- Howard, R. A. The Enumeratio and Selectarum of Nicolaus von Jacquin 1973
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