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.[2]

Moldenhawera
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Caesalpinioideae
Genus: Moldenhawera
Schrad. (1821)
Species[1]

12; see text

Synonyms[1]

Dolichonema Nees (1821)

References edit

  1. ^ a b Moldenhawera Schrad. 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.