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 ...
Caesalpinioideae
Caesalpinioideae is a botanical name at the rank of subfamily, placed in the large family Fabaceae or Leguminosae. Its name is formed from the generic name ''Caesalpinia''. It is known also as the peacock flower subfamily. The Caesalpinioideae ...
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Selected species
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Zygia cataractae
''Zygia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It belongs to the mimosoid clade of the subfamily Caesalpinioideae.
Selected species
* '' Zygia cataractae'' (Kunth) L.Rico
* '' Zygia claviflora'' (Spruce ex Benth.) Barneby & J ...
'' (Kunth) L.Rico
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Zygia claviflora
''Zygia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It belongs to the mimosoid clade of the subfamily Caesalpinioideae.
Selected species
* ''Zygia cataractae'' (Kunth) L.Rico
* '' Zygia claviflora'' (Spruce ex Benth.) Barneby & J. ...
'' (Spruce ex Benth.) Barneby & J.W.Grimes
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Zygia cognata
''Zygia cognata'' is a tree species in the legume family (Fabaceae). It is found in Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras.
Junior synonyms are:ILDIS (2005)
* ''Feuilleea cognata'' (Schltdl.) Kuntze
* ''Inga cognata'' Schltdl.
* ''Inga stevensonii'' S ...
'' (Schltdl.) Britton & Rose (
Belize
Belize (; bzj, Bileez) is a Caribbean and Central American country on the northeastern coast of Central America. It is bordered by Mexico to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the east, and Guatemala to the west and south. It also shares a wate ...
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Guatemala
Guatemala ( ; ), officially the Republic of Guatemala ( es, República de Guatemala, links=no), is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the north and west by Mexico; to the northeast by Belize and the Caribbean; to the east by H ...
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Honduras
Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. The republic of Honduras is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Oce ...
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Zygia collina
''Zygia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It belongs to the mimosoid clade of the subfamily Caesalpinioideae.
Selected species
* '' Zygia cataractae'' (Kunth) L.Rico
* '' Zygia claviflora'' (Spruce ex Benth.) Barneby & J ...
'' (Sandwith) Barneby & J.W.Grimes
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Zygia dinizii
''Zygia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It belongs to the mimosoid clade of the subfamily Caesalpinioideae.
Selected species
* ''Zygia cataractae'' (Kunth) L.Rico
* ''Zygia claviflora'' (Spruce ex Benth.) Barneby & J.W ...
'' (Ducke) D.A.Neill et al.
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Zygia inaequalis
''Zygia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It belongs to the mimosoid clade of the subfamily Caesalpinioideae.
Selected species
* ''Zygia cataractae'' (Kunth) L.Rico
* ''Zygia claviflora'' (Spruce ex Benth.) Barneby & J.W ...
Zygia latifolia
''Zygia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It belongs to the mimosoid clade of the subfamily Caesalpinioideae.
Selected species
* '' Zygia cataractae'' (Kunth) L.Rico
* '' Zygia claviflora'' (Spruce ex Benth.) Barneby & J ...
'' (L.) Fawc. & Rendle
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Zygia lehmannii
''Zygia lehmannii'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. It is found only in Colombia
Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near ...
'' (Harms) Britton & Rose ex Britton & Killip (
Colombia
Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...
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Zygia oriunda
''Zygia oriunda'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. It is found only in Peru
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Peru
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, other_symbol = Great Seal of the State
, other_symbol_type = Seal (emblem), National seal
, national_motto = "Fi ...
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Zygia pithecolobioides
''Pithecellobium pithecolobioides'', known as the granadillo de río, is a tree species in the legume family (Fabaceae).
Found in Argentina and Paraguay, it is threatened by habitat destruction; whether it still exists in Brazil is at least doub ...
'' (Kuntze) Barneby & J.W.Grimes – Granadillo de Río (
Argentina
Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...
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Paraguay
Paraguay (; ), officially the Republic of Paraguay ( es, República del Paraguay, links=no; gn, Tavakuairetã Paraguái, links=si), is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to th ...
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Zygia racemosa
''Zygia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It belongs to the mimosoid clade of the subfamily Caesalpinioideae.
Selected species
* '' Zygia cataractae'' (Kunth) L.Rico
* '' Zygia claviflora'' (Spruce ex Benth.) Barneby & J ...
'' (Ducke) Barneby & J.W.Grimes
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Zygia selloi
''Zygia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It belongs to the mimosoid clade of the subfamily Caesalpinioideae.
Selected species
* '' Zygia cataractae'' (Kunth) L.Rico
* '' Zygia claviflora'' (Spruce ex Benth.) Barneby & J ...
'' (Benth.) L.Rico
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Zygia steyermarkii
''Zygia steyermarkii'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. It can only be found in Ecuador
Ecuador ( ; ; Quechua: ''Ikwayur''; Shuar: ''Ecuador'' or ''Ekuatur''), officially the Republic of Ecuador ( es, República ...
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Ecuador
Ecuador ( ; ; Quechua: ''Ikwayur''; Shuar: ''Ecuador'' or ''Ekuatur''), officially the Republic of Ecuador ( es, República del Ecuador, which literally translates as "Republic of the Equator"; Quechua: ''Ikwadur Ripuwlika''; Shuar: ''Eku ...
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Formerly placed here
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Albizia adianthifolia
''Albizia adianthifolia'' is a tree in the family Fabaceae. It is commonly known as the flat-crown. Its range extends from eastern South Africa to Tropical Africa.
Description
This is a large deciduous tree with a spreading, flat crown, growing ...
Albizia petersiana
''Albizia'' is a genus of more than 160 species of mostly fast-growing subtropical and tropical trees and shrubs in the subfamily Mimosoideae of the family Fabaceae. The genus is pantropical, occurring in Asia, Africa, Madagascar, America and A ...
Albizia zygia
''Albizia zygia'' is a fast growing medium-sized tree species within the Fabaceae family that is commonly found in West and Central Africa.
Description
The species grows up to 30 meters tall. Its branches are ascending and wide spreading form ...
'' (DC.) J. F. Macbr. (as ''Z. brownei'' Walp.)
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Ebenopsis ebano
''Ebenopsis ebano'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, that is native to the coastal plain of southern Texas in the United States and eastern Mexico. It is commonly known as Texas ebony or ''ebano'' (in Spanish language, Span ...