Ormosieae
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| Ormosieae | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Subfamily: | Faboideae |
| Clade: | Meso-Papilionoideae |
| Clade: | Genistoids |
| Tribe: | Ormosieae Yakovlev |
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The tribe Ormosieae is one of the subdivisions of the plant family Fabaceae, primarily found in tropical regions of the Americas, but also in southeast Asia and northern Australia.[1][3] The members of this tribe were formerly included in tribe Sophoreae,[4] but were recently circumscribed into a new tribe.[2][1][5] The members of this tribe consistently form a monophyletic clade in molecular phylogenetic analyses.[1][6][7][8][9][10][11] The tribe does not currently have a node-based definition, but morphological synapomorphies have been tentatively identified: "mostly dehiscent pods with woody valves"[1] and "tufts of minute colleter-like glands in the axils of bract and bracteoles".[1] Like other genistoids, members of tribe Ormosieae are known to produce quinolizidine alkaloids.[12]
