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Pterocarpus dubius

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Pterocarpus dubius is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae native to Venezuela, Guyana, and northern Brazil in northern South America.[2]

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Pterocarpus dubius
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Tribe: Dalbergieae
Genus: Pterocarpus
Species:
P. dubius
Binomial name
Pterocarpus dubius
(Kunth) Spreng. (1827)
Synonyms[2]
  • Ecastaphyllum dubium Kunth (1824)
  • Etaballia dubia (Kunth) Rudd in Phytologia 20: 427 (1970)
  • Etaballia guianensis Benth. (1840)
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Pterocarpus dubius is a tree which grows up to 30 meters tall. It grows in semi-deciduous and evergreen lowland tropical forests.[1]

It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae.[3][4] It was formerly classed as the sole species in genus Etaballia.[5][6]

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