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Macrosamanea
Macrosamanea is a genus of flowering plant in the legume family, Fabaceae. It includes 11 species of trees and shrubs native to northern South America. The genus is most diverse and numerous in the Amazon Basin, extending into the Orinoco basin and the Guianas. Typical habitat is tropical rain forest, mostly riparian and seasonally-flooded. Two species are native to seasonally-inundated wooded grassland (savanna) on sandy soils. The genus belongs to the mimosoid clade of the subfamily Caesalpinioideae.
6 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Macrosamanea pubiramea
speciesMacrosamanea pubiramea
Macrosamanea kegelii
speciesMacrosamanea kegelii
Macrosamanea spruceana
speciesMacrosamanea spruceana
Macrosamanea consanguinea
speciesMacrosamanea consanguinea
Macrosamanea macrocalyx
speciesMacrosamanea macrocalyx
Macrosamanea prancei
speciesMacrosamanea prancei
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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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 142424.