Cascaronia Explained

Cascaronia astragalina is a species of flowering plant in the legume family, Fabaceae. It is the only member of the genus Cascaronia.[1] It is a spindly shrub or multi-stemmed tree native to southern Bolivia and northwestern Argentina. It grows in seasonally-dry subtropical forests, at forest margins and along rivers.[2]

Cascaronia belongs to the subfamily Faboideae, and was recently assigned to the informal monophyletic Pterocarpus clade of the Dalbergieae.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: ILDIS LegumeWeb entry for Cascaronia . . International Legume Database & Information Service . Cardiff School of Computer Science & Informatics . 10 February 2014 .
  2. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:21945-1 Cascaronia Griseb.