Havardia Explained

Havardia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It belongs to the mimosoid clade of the subfamily Caesalpinioideae.^[1] It includes five species of trees native to the Americas, ranging from Texas and northern Mexico through Central America to Colombia and Venezuela. Typical habitats include warm-temperate and tropical seasonally-dry woodland, wooded grassland, and desert thorn scrub, typically below 450 meters elevation.^[2]

Species

Five species are accepted:^[2]

• Havardia acatlensis – western and central Mexico
• Havardia albicans (Kunth) Britton & Rose – southern Mexico and Belize
• Havardia mexicana (Rose) Britton & Rose – northern Mexico
• Havardia pallens (Benth.) Britton & Rose – Huajillo – Mexico and Texas
• Havardia platyloba – southern Mexico to Colombia and Venezuela

External links

• • ITIS

Notes and References

1. The Legume Phylogeny Working Group (LPWG). . 2017 . A new subfamily classification of the Leguminosae based on a taxonomically comprehensive phylogeny . . 66 . 1 . 44–77 . 10.12705/661.3. free . 10568/90658 . free .
2. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:298190-2 Havardia Small