Collaea Explained

Collaea is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It belongs to subfamily Faboideae and tribe Diocleae.^[1] It includes five species native to the southern tropical South America, ranging from Peru to northeastern Brazil and northeastern Argentina.

• Collaea aschersoniana – scrambling subshrub or shrub native to southern Brazil
• Collaea cipoensis – a shrub native to southeastern Brazil
• Collaea insignis – a shrub native to west-central Brazil (northeastern Goiás and Brasília)
• Collaea speciosa – a shrub native to Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, eastern and southern Brazil, and northeastern Argentina
• Collaea stenophylla – a subshrub or shrub native to southeastern and southern Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, and northeastern Argentina

Notes and References

1. de Queiroz LP, Pastore JF, Cardoso D, Snak C, ((de C Lima AL)), Gagnon E, Vatanparast M, Holland AE, Egan AN . 2015 . A multilocus phylogenetic analysis reveals the monophyly of a recircumscribed papilionoid legume tribe Diocleae with well-supported generic relationships . Mol Phylogenet Evol . 90 . 1–19 . 10.1016/j.ympev.2015.04.016 . 25934529 . 2015MolPE..90....1D .