Moldenhawera Explained

Moldenhawera is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It includes 12 species of trees and shrubs endemic to eastern Brazil. They grow in diverse habitats, including restinga (tropical moist coastal forest, woodland, and scrub on podzolized sandy soils just above the beach line), coastal dunes, wooded grassland (cerrado), low mountain scrub on sandstone-derived soils, and rocky montane grassland (campo rupestre). It belongs to the subfamily Caesalpinioideae.^[1]

• Moldenhawera acuminata
• Moldenhawera blanchetiana
• Moldenhawera brasiliensis
• Moldenhawera congestiflora
• Moldenhawera emarginata
• Moldenhawera floribunda
• Moldenhawera intermedia
• Moldenhawera longipedicellata
• Moldenhawera lushnathiana
• Moldenhawera nutans
• Moldenhawera papillanthera
• Moldenhawera polysperma

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 .