Geoffroea

Geoffroea
Flowering Geoffroea decorticans in detail
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Rosids
Order:	Fabales
Family:	Fabaceae
Subfamily:	Faboideae
Tribe:	Dalbergieae
Genus:	Geoffroea Jacq.
Type species
Geoffroea spinosa Jacq.
Species
Geoffroea decorticans (Gillies ex Hook. & Arn.) Burkart Geoffroea spinosa Jacq.
Key:   Range of Geoffroea decorticans.   Range of Geoffroea spinosa.
Synonyms
Geoffraea Jacq. Geoffroya L. Geoffrea Stokes Gourliea Gillies ex Hook. & Arn.

Geoffroea is a rather small genus of wild spiny shrubs or small trees of tropical and subtropical South America. Although it gathers few species, they are highly extended geographically throughout the subcontinent. Each species is well known in its local area, as seen from the varied (and mostly domestic) usage of these trees as food, timber, or fuel. It was recently assigned to the informal monophyletic Pterocarpus clade within the Dalbergieae.