Cladrastis clade
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| Cladrastis clade | |
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| Pickeringia montana | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Subfamily: | Faboideae |
| Clade: | Cladrastis clade (Wojciechowski et al. 2004[1]) Wojciechowski 2013[2] |
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The Cladrastis clade is a monophyletic clade of the flowering plant subfamily Faboideae (or Papilionaceae) that is found in eastern Asia and southern North America.[2][3][4] It is consistently resolved in molecular phylogenies and is sister to the Meso-Papilionoideae.[1][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] Evidence for the existence of this clade was first proposed based on morphological (floral), cytological, and biochemical evidence.[11][12] It is predicted to have diverged from the other legume lineages 47.4±2.6 million years ago (in the Eocene).[13]
