Lecointea

Lecointea is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It contains the following species:[1][2]

  • Lecointea amazonica Ducke
  • Lecointea ovalifolia J.F. Macbr.
  • Lecointea peruviana J.F. Macbr.
  • Lecointea tango (Standl.) Emygdio & A.G. Andrade

Lecointea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Tribe: Exostyleae
Genus: Lecointea
Ducke
Species

See text

Synonyms
  • Beliceodendron Lundell

Its native range stretches from south-eastern Mexico to Southern Tropical America. It is found in Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela.[3]

The genus name of Lecointea is in honour of Paul Georges Aimé Le Cointe (1870–1956), a French botanist who worked in Brazil. He was also the director of a museum in Belém.[4] It was first described and published in Arch. Jard. Bot. Rio de Janeiro Vol.3 on page 128 in 1922.[3]

References

  1. "ILDIS LegumeWeb entry for Lecointea". International Legume Database & Information Service. Cardiff School of Computer Science & Informatics. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
  2. USDA; ARS; National Genetic Resources Program. "GRIN species records of Lecointea". Germplasm Resources Information Network—(GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
  3. "Lecointea Ducke | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 7 November 2021.
  4. Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. Retrieved 1 January 2021.


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