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Diocleae

Diocleae
Crista-de-galo (Camptosema grandiflora), brazilian native. Sao Paulo Botanical garden7.jpg
Camptosema grandiflora
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
(unranked): Millettioids
Tribe: Diocleae
(Benth. 1865) Hutch. 1964
Genera

See text.

Synonyms
  • Diocleinae (Benth. 1865) Lackey 1981
  • Diocleinae (Benth. 1865) Schrire et al. 2005
  • Diocleinae (Benth. 1865) Taub. 1894
  • Diocleae Benth. 1865
  • Galactieae (Benth. 1865) Hutch. 1964
  • Galactieae Benth. 1865

See text.

The tribe Diocleae is one of the subdivisions of the plant family Fabaceae.

The Diocleae can be distinguished from other members of Fabaceae by

[A] combination of features involving the woody vine or shrub habit, stipellate trifoliolate leaves, nodose pseudoraceme inflorescence, flowers with a distinct hypanthium, and calyx with lanceolate lobes, the lower lobe longer than the remaining (except in the specialized resupinate flowers of Canavalia).

Diocleae contains the following genera:



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