Zygia

Zygia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It belongs to the mimosoid clade of the subfamily Caesalpinioideae.[2]

Zygia
Zygia latifolia
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Caesalpinioideae
Clade: Mimosoid clade
Genus: Zygia
P.Browne[1]
Species

See text

Synonyms
  • Marmaroxylon Killip


Selected species

Formerly placed here

  • Albizia adianthifolia (Schumach.) W.Wight (as Z. fastigiata E.Mey.)
  • Albizia petersiana (Bolle) Oliv. (as Z. petersiana Bolle)
  • Albizia zygia (DC.) J. F. Macbr. (as Z. brownei Walp.)
  • Ebenopsis ebano (Berland.) Barneby & J.W.Grimes (as Z. flexicaulis (Benth.) Sudw.)
  • Havardia pallens (Benth.) Britton & Rose (as Z. brevifolia (Benth.) Sudw.)
  • Pithecellobium unguis-cati (L.) Benth. (as Z. unguis-cati (L.) Sudw.)[3]

References

  1. "Genus: Zygia P. Browne". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 1999-03-05. Retrieved 2013-04-26.
  2. The Legume Phylogeny Working Group (LPWG). (2017). "A new subfamily classification of the Leguminosae based on a taxonomically comprehensive phylogeny". Taxon. 66 (1): 44–77. doi:10.12705/661.3.
  3. "GRIN Species Records of Zygia". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 2013-04-26.
  • Media related to Zygia at Wikimedia Commons
  • Data related to Zygia at Wikispecies


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