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Zygia
Zygia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It includes 60 species of tres and shrubs native to the tropical Americas, from Southern Mexico and Cuba to northern Argentina. Typical habitats are tropical forest and coastal zones, generally below 900 meters elevation with a few species extending up to 2800 meters. It belongs to the mimosoid clade of the subfamily Caesalpinioideae.
37 branches of this genus, most-observed first
pichinde
speciesZygia longifolia
Zygia cognata
speciesZygia cognata
Zygia latifolia
speciesZygia latifolia
Zygia conzattii
speciesZygia conzattii
Zygia racemosa
speciesZygia racemosa
Zygia gigantifoliola
speciesZygia gigantifoliola
Zygia cataractae
speciesZygia cataractae
Zygia basijuga
speciesZygia basijuga
Zygia morongii
speciesZygia morongii
Zygia coccinea
speciesZygia coccinea
Zygia tetragona
speciesZygia tetragona
Zygia inaequalis
speciesZygia inaequalis
Zygia hernandezii
speciesZygia hernandezii
Zygia brenesii
speciesZygia brenesii
Zygia lehmannii
speciesZygia lehmannii
Zygia unifoliolata
speciesZygia unifoliolata
Zygia heteroneura
speciesZygia heteroneura
Zygia rubiginosa
speciesZygia rubiginosa
Zygia englesingii
speciesZygia englesingii
Zygia selloi
speciesZygia selloi
Zygia cauliflora
speciesZygia cauliflora
Zygia peckii
speciesZygia peckii
Zygia pithecolobioides
speciesZygia pithecolobioides
Zygia confusa
speciesZygia confusa
Zygia paucijugata
speciesZygia paucijugata
Zygia trunciflora
speciesZygia trunciflora
Zygia biflora
speciesZygia biflora
Zygia ampla
speciesZygia ampla
Zygia macbridei
speciesZygia macbridei
Zygia multipunctata
speciesZygia multipunctata
Zygia garcia-barrigae
speciesZygia garcia-barrigae
Zygia codonocalyx
speciesZygia codonocalyx
Zygia andaquiensis
speciesZygia andaquiensis
Zygia turneri
speciesZygia turneri
Zygia steyermarkii
speciesZygia steyermarkii
Zygia transamazonica
speciesZygia transamazonica
Zygia odoratissima
speciesZygia odoratissima
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 138526.