Melanoxylum is genus of plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It includes a single species, Melanoxylum brauna, the yellow-flowered brauna tree. It is native to eastern Brazil.[2] The genus is part of subfamily Caesalpinioideae.[3]

Melanoxylum
Flowers and seed pods of the Brauna tree
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Caesalpinioideae
Genus: Melanoxylum
Schott (1822)
Species:
M. brauna
Binomial name
Melanoxylum brauna
Schott (1827)
Synonyms[1][2]
  • Perittium Vogel (1837)
  • Perittium ferrugineum Vogel (1837)
  • Recordoxylon irwinii R.S.Cowan (1973)

References

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  1. ^ Melanoxylum Schott. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 6 September 2023
  2. ^ a b Melanoxylum brauna Schott. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 6 September 2023.
  3. ^ 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.