''Nissolia'', the yellowhoods,
is a genus of
liana
A liana is a long-Plant stem, stemmed Woody plant, woody vine that is rooted in the soil at ground level and uses trees, as well as other means of vertical support, to climb up to the Canopy (biology), canopy in search of direct sunlight. T ...
s in the
legume
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family,
Fabaceae
Fabaceae () or Leguminosae,[International Code of Nomen ...](_blank)
. It includes 32 species native to the tropical and subtropical Americas, ranging from Arizona and Texas through Mexico, Central America, and South America to northern Argentina.
[ It belongs to the subfamily ]Faboideae
The Faboideae are a subfamily of the flowering plant family Fabaceae or Leguminosae. An acceptable alternative name for the subfamily is Papilionoideae, or Papilionaceae when this group of plants is treated as a family.
This subfamily is widely ...
, and was recently assigned to the informal monophyletic
In biological cladistics for the classification of organisms, monophyly is the condition of a taxonomic grouping being a clade – that is, a grouping of organisms which meets these criteria:
# the grouping contains its own most recent co ...
''Adesmia'' clade of the Dalbergieae
The tribe Dalbergieae is an early-branching clade within the flowering plant subfamily Faboideae (or Papilionaceae). Within that subfamily, it belongs to an unranked clade called the dalbergioids. It was recently revised to include many genera ...
.
32 species are accepted:[
*'' Nissolia acutifolia''
*'' Nissolia blanchetiana''
*'' Nissolia bracteosa''
*'' Nissolia brasiliensis''
*'' Nissolia chacoensis''
*'' Nissolia chiapensis''
*'' Nissolia fruticosa''
*'' Nissolia gentryi''
*'' Nissolia hintonii''
*'' Nissolia klugii''
*'' Nissolia latisiliqua''
*'' Nissolia laxior''
*'' Nissolia leiogyne''
*'' Nissolia longiflora''
*'' Nissolia longiloba''
*'' Nissolia microptera''
*'' Nissolia montana''
*'' Nissolia nigricans''
*'' Nissolia peruviana''
*'' Nissolia platycalyx''
*'' Nissolia platycarpa''
*'' Nissolia pringlei''
*'' Nissolia rondonensis''
*'' Nissolia ruddiae''
*'' Nissolia schottii''
*'' Nissolia setosa''
*'' Nissolia stipulata''
*'' Nissolia subulata''
*'' Nissolia tomentosa''
*'' Nissolia vincentina''
*'' Nissolia weberbaueri''
*'' Nissolia wislizeni''
]
References
Dalbergieae
Fabaceae genera
Flora of the Americas
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