Acosmium

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Acosmium is a South America genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. Three species are currently recognized.[1][2][3] Most Acosmium species have been recently transferred to Leptolobium[4] and one species to the South American Guianodendron[5] while the genus Acosmium itself has been transferred from the tribe Sophoreae to the tribe Dalbergieae[6] in a monophyletic clade informally known as the Pterocarpus clade.[7]

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Acosmium
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Tribe: Dalbergieae
Genus: Acosmium
Schott
Species
  • Acosmium cardenasii H.S. Irwin & Arroyo
  • Acosmium diffusissimum (Mohlenbr.) Yakovlev
  • Acosmium lentiscifolium Schott.
Key:[1]
  Range of Acosmium cardenasii.
  Range of Acosmium lentiscifolium.
  Range of Acosmium diffusissimum.
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