Recordoxylon
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Caesalpinioideae
Tribe: Cassieae
Genus: Recordoxylon
Ducke (1934)
Species[1]
  • Recordoxylon pulcherrimum Barneby
  • Recordoxylon speciosum (Benoist) Gazel ex Barneby
  • Recordoxylon stenopetalum Ducke
Recordoxylon speciosum - MHNT

Recordoxylon is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It includes three species of trees native to the tropical Amazon rainforest of northern South America, and the species' range includes northern Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, and Venezuela. Habitats include non-flooded rain forest on terra firme, seasonally-flooded riverine forest (várzea), and montane forest.[1]

It belongs to subfamily Caesalpinioideae.[2] It was first described and published in Trop. Woods Vol.39 on page 16 in 1934.[1] The genus name of Recordoxylon is in honour of Samuel J. Record (1881–1945), an American botanist who played a prominent role in the study of trees and wood.[3]

Currently there is no commercial use for it, not as decoration nor for its nutritive properties.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Recordoxylon Ducke | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 17 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.
  3. ↑ Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
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