Havardia
Appearance
Havardia | |
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Havardia mexicana | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Fabales |
Family: | Fabaceae |
Subfamily: | Caesalpinioideae |
Clade: | Mimosoid clade |
Genus: | Havardia Small (1901) |
Species | |
five; see text |
Havardia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It belongs to the mimosoid clade of the subfamily Caesalpinioideae.[1] It includes five species of trees native to the Americas, ranging from Texas and northern Mexico through Central America to Colombia and Venezuela. Typical habitats include warm-temperate and tropical seasonally-dry woodland, wooded grassland, and desert thorn scrub, typically below 450 meters elevation.[2]
Species
Five species are accepted:[2]
- Havardia acatlensis (Benth.) Britton & Rose – western and central Mexico
- Havardia albicans (Kunth) Britton & Rose – southern Mexico and Belize
- Havardia mexicana (Rose) Britton & Rose – northern Mexico
- Havardia pallens (Benth.) Britton & Rose – Huajillo – Mexico and Texas
- Havardia platyloba (Bertero ex DC.) Britton & Rose – southern Mexico to Colombia and Venezuela
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b Havardia Small. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 1 September 2023.
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