Luetzelburgia Explained

Luetzelburgia (common names include sucupira and angelim) is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It includes 14 species of trees and shrubs native to Brazil, Bolivia, and Colombia. Typical habitat is seasonally-dry tropical lowland woodland and wooded grassland, and occasionally lowland rain forests. The genus belongs to the subfamily Faboideae. It was traditionally assigned to the tribe Sophoreae, mainly on the basis of flower morphology;^[1] recent molecular phylogenetic analyses assigned Luetzelburgia into an informal, monophyletic clade called the "vataireoids".^{[2] [3]} Keys for the different species of Luetzelburgia have been published.^[4]

Notes and References

1. Book: Polhill RM. . 1981 . Sophoreae . Polhill RM, Raven PH . Advances in Legume Systematics, Part 1 . http://www.kewbooks.com/asps/ShowDetails.asp?id=318 . Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . 213–230 . 9780855212247 .
2. Cardoso D, Pennington RT, de Queiroz LP, Boatwright JS, Van Wyk BE, Wojciechowskie MF, Lavin M . 2013 . Reconstructing the deep-branching relationships of the papilionoid legumes . S Afr J Bot . 89 . 58–75 . 10.1016/j.sajb.2013.05.001 . free .
3. Cardoso D, de Queiroz LP, de Lima HC, Suganuma E, van den Berg C, Lavin M . 2013 . A molecular phylogeny of the vataireoid legumes underscores floral evolvability that is general to many early-branching papilionoid lineages. . Am J Bot . 100 . 2 . 403–21 . 10.3732/ajb.1200276 . 23378491 .
4. Cardoso DBOS . de Queiroz LP . de Lima HC. . 2014 . A taxonomic revision of the South American papilionoid genus Luetzelburgia (Fabaceae). . . 175 . 3 . 328–375 . 10.1111/boj.12153 . free .