Mimozyganthus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It includes a single species, Mimozyganthus carinatus, a tree native to Bolivia, Paraguay, and northwestern Argentina, where it is known by the common names iscayante and lata.[1] It belongs to the mimosoid clade of the subfamily Caesalpinioideae.[2]

Mimozyganthus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Caesalpinioideae
Clade: Mimosoid clade
Genus: Mimozyganthus
Burkart (1939)
Species:
M. carinatus
Binomial name
Mimozyganthus carinatus
(Griseb.) Burkart (1939)
Synonyms[1]

Mimosa carinata Griseb. (1879)

References edit

  1. ^ a b Mimozyganthus carinatus (Griseb.) Burkart. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 7 September 2023.
  2. ^ The Legume Phylogeny Working Group (LPWG). (2017). "A new subfamily classification of the Leguminosae based on a taxonomically comprehensive phylogeny". Taxon. 66 (1): 44–77. doi:10.12705/661.3. hdl:10568/90658.