''Christia'' 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,

Fabaceae The Fabaceae or Leguminosae,International Code of Nomenc ...

. It belongs to the subfamily

Faboideae The Faboideae are a subfamily of the flowering plant family Fabaceae or Leguminosae. An acceptable alternative name for the subfamily is Papilionoideae, or Papilionaceae when this group of plants is treated as a family. This subfamily is wide ...

Geographical distribution

Tropical & Subtropical Asia, including *

Ryukyu Island The , also known as the or the , are a chain of Japanese islands that stretch southwest from Kyushu to Taiwan: the Ōsumi, Tokara, Amami, Okinawa, and Sakishima Islands (further divided into the Miyako and Yaeyama Islands), with Yonagun ...

* Taiwan *

Indochina Mainland Southeast Asia, also known as the Indochinese Peninsula or Indochina, is the continental portion of Southeast Asia. It lies east of the Indian subcontinent and south of Mainland China and is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the west an ...

* Malaysia * Indonesia * Vietnam * Laos * Cambodia * Thailand * India * China * Northern Australia The genus is also

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in Fiji and on some Caribbean islands such as St. Vincent, Martinique, Jamaica and St. Kitts.

Species

* ''Christia australasica'' (Schindl.) Bakh.f * ''Christia constricta'' (Schindl.) T.C.Chen * ''Christia convallaria'' (Schindl.) Ohashi * ''Christia hainanensis'' Yen C.Yang & P.H.Huang * ''Christia lychnucha'' (Schindl.) Ohashi * '' Christia obcordata'' (Poir.) Bakh.f. * ''Christia paniculata'' (Wall. ex Benth.) Thoth. * ''Christia parviflora'' (Schindl.) Bakh.f. * ''Christia pierrei'' (Schindl.) Ohashi * ''Christia vespertilionis'' (L.f.) Bakh.f. * ''Christia zollingeri'' (Schindl.) Bakh.f.

References

Desmodieae Fabaceae genera {{Faboideae-stub