''Amicia'' is a genus of
flowering plant
Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. The term "angiosperm" is derived from the Greek words ('container, vessel') and ('seed'), and refers to those plants th ...
s in the
legume
A legume () is a plant in the family Fabaceae (or Leguminosae), or the fruit or seed of such a plant. When used as a dry grain, the seed is also called a pulse. Legumes are grown agriculturally, primarily for human consumption, for livestock f ...
family,
, and was recently assigned to the informal
monophyletic
In cladistics for a group of organisms, monophyly is the condition of being a clade—that is, a group of taxa composed only of a common ancestor (or more precisely an ancestral population) and all of its lineal descendants. Monophyletic gro ...
''Adesmia'' clade. It belongs to the subfamily
Faboideae. It is named in honor of the Italian astronomer, mathematician and microscopist
Giovanni Battista Amici (1786–1863).
[Genaust H. (1976). ''Etymologisches Wörterbuch der botanischen Pflanzennamen'' ]
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Dalbergieae
Fabaceae genera
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