Tachigali is a flowering plant genus in the legume family (Fabaceae). It includes 74 species of trees native to the tropical Americas, ranging from Nicaragua to Bolivia, Paraguay, and southern Brazil. Typical habitats include tropical rain forest, lower montane forest, seasonally-flooded and non-flooded evergreen lowland forest and woodland, gallery and riparian forest, sometimes on white sands, cerrado and other dry woodland, and rocky grassland.[1][2]

Tachigali
Flowering T. paniculata in Bonfinópolis de Minas, Brazil
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Caesalpinioideae
Clade: Tachigali clade
Genus: Tachigali
Aubl. (1775)
Species

Several, see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Cuba Scop. (1777)
  • Cubaea Schreb. (1789)
  • Sclerolobium Vogel (1837)
  • Tachia Pers. (1805), nom. illeg.
  • Valentinia Neck. (1790), opus utique oppr.

Species

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As of April 2023, Plants of the World Online accepted the following species:[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Tachigali Aubl." Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 2023-04-17.
  2. ^ van der Werff, Henk (2008). "A Synopsis of the Genus Tachigali (Leguminosae: Caesalpinioideae) in Northern South America". Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 95 (4): 618–661. doi:10.3417/2007159.

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