''Nissolia'', the yellowhoods,
is a genus of
lianas in the
legume family,
Fabaceae. 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 widely ...
, and was recently assigned to the informal
monophyletic ''Adesmia'' clade of the
Dalbergieae
The tribe Dalbergieae is an early-branching clade within the flowering plant subfamily Faboideae (or Papilionaceae). Within that subfamily, it belongs to an unranked clade called the dalbergioids. It was recently revised to include many genera ...
.
References
Dalbergieae
Fabaceae genera
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