Schleinitzia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It includes four species of trees and shrubs native to the Philippines, New Guinea, and the South Pacific. Typical habitats include tropical secondary rain forest, woodland, wooded grassland, coastal plain, and beaches.[1] It belongs to the mimosoid clade of the subfamily Caesalpinioideae.[2]

Schleinitzia
Schleinitzia fosbergii
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: Schleinitzia
Warb. ex Nevling & Niezgoda (1919)
Species[1]

four; see text

Synonyms[1]

Schleinitzia Warb. (1891), not accepted by the author.

References edit

  1. ^ a b c Schleinitzia Warb. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 19 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.