Amorpheae
The tribe Amorpheae is an early-branching clade within the flowering plant subfamily Faboideae or Papilionaceae. It is found from Mexico to Argentina. It was recently found to belong in a larger clade known informally as the dalbergioids sensu lato. This tribe is consistently resolved as monophyletic in molecular phylogenetic analyses. It is estimated to have arisen 36.9 ± 3.0 million years ago (in the Eocene). A node-based definition for Amorpheae is: "the MRCA of Psorothamnus arborescens...
10 branches of this tribe, most-observed first
prairie clovers
genusDalea
False Indigos
genusAmorpha
Psorodendron
genusPsorodendron
Kidneywoods
genusEysenhardtia
Indigobushes and Smoke Trees
genusPsorothamnus
Marina
genusMarina
Errazurizia
genusErrazurizia
Parryella
genusParryella
Apoplanesia
genusApoplanesia
Pictarena
genusPictarena
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 737817.