Caesalpinieae
| Caesalpinieae | |
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| Caesalpinia sappan | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Subfamily: | Caesalpinioideae |
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Caesalpinieae Rchb. 1832 |
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Caesalpinia (L. 1753) E. Gagnon & G. P. Lewis 2016 |
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| Genera | |
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The tribe Caesalpinieae is one of the subdivisions of the plant family Fabaceae.
Caesalpinieae once included many more genera, but modern molecular phylogenetics indicated that these should be transferred to other clades. Caesalpinieae currently comprises the following genera:
Caesalpinia, as traditionally circumscribed, was paraphyletic, so it was recently recircumscribed to produce many new genera:
Caesalpinia sensu stricto
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