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Hoffmannseggia

Hoffmannseggia
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Hoffmannseggia glauca
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Caesalpinioideae
Tribe: Caesalpinieae
Genus: Hoffmannseggia
Cav. 1798
Type species
Hoffmannseggia glauca
(Ortega) Eifert.
Species

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Synonyms
  • Hoffmanseggia Cav., orth. var.
  • Hoffmannsegia orth. var.
  • Larrea Ortega 1797, nom. rejec.
  • Moparia Britton & Rose 1930
  • Schrammia Britton & Rose

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Hoffmannseggia is a genus of flowering plants in the pea family, Fabaceae, known generally as rushpeas. These are pod-bearing herbs and subshrubs native to the Americas and southern Africa. The generic name honors Johann Centurius, Count of Hoffmannsegg, a nineteenth-century German nobleman and botanist.

Hoffmannseggia comprises the following species:



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