''Cynometra'' is genus of tropical forest trees with a pantropical distribution. It is particularly important as a forest component in west

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Cynometra alexandri ''Cynometra alexandri'', the Uganda ironwood or muhimbi, is a species of legume that occurs in tropical lowland forests of central and east Africa. They grow gregariously in drier forest types and as a constituent of swamp forests. They reach so ...

'' (muhimbi) is a familiar timber tree of central and east Africa. The genus is a member of the subfamily Detarioideae. It has been suggested that ''Cynometra'' is polyphyletic and is in need of revision. In 2019, beside description of 4 new species (i.e. ''

Cynometra cerebriformis ''Cynometra'' is genus of tropical forest trees with a pantropical distribution. It is particularly important as a forest component in west Africa and the neotropics. ''Cynometra alexandri'' (muhimbi) is a familiar timber tree of central and eas ...

'', '' C. dwyeri'', '' C. steyermarkii'' and '' C. tumbesiana''), suggested that the species formerly recognized as ''

Maniltoa ''Maniltoa'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It contains the following species: * '' Maniltoa floribunda'' * '' Maniltoa grandiflora'' * '' Maniltoa lenticellata'' * '' Maniltoa minor'' * '' Maniltoa rosea'' * '' Maniltoa ...

'' should be included in this genus and some of the mainland tropical African species (those with asterisk in the list below) excluded from this genus because of their jointed

pedicels In botany, a pedicel is a stem that attaches a single flower to the inflorescence. Such inflorescences are described as ''pedicellate''. Description Pedicel refers to a structure connecting a single flower to its inflorescence. In the absenc ...

and

dehiscent Dehiscence is the splitting of a mature plant structure along a built-in line of weakness to release its contents. This is common among fruits, anthers and sporangia. Sometimes this involves the complete detachment of a part; structures that op ...

fruits (he has not yet published any new combination for them, though).

Species

The list below is based on

Plants of the World Online Plants of the World Online (POWO) is an online database published by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. It was launched in March 2017 with the ultimate aim being "to enable users to access information on all the world's known seed-bearing plants by ...

POWO (2019). "Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:22178-1 Retrieved 11 May 2021." and . * ''

Cynometra abrahamii ''Cynometra'' is genus of tropical forest trees with a pantropical distribution. It is particularly important as a forest component in west Africa and the neotropics. ''Cynometra alexandri'' (muhimbi) is a familiar timber tree of central and eas ...

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Cynometra americana ''Cynometra'' is genus of tropical forest trees with a pantropical distribution. It is particularly important as a forest component in west Africa and the neotropics. ''Cynometra alexandri'' (muhimbi) is a familiar timber tree of central and eas ...

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Cynometra ananta ''Cynometra ananta'' is a perennial large tree within the Fabaceae family. Its timber is traded under the name ''Apome'' in Ivory Coast and ''Ananta'' in Ghana. Taxonomy The genus Cynometra is composed of pantropical species of which 25 is na ...

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Cynometra ankaranensis ''Cynometra'' is genus of tropical forest trees with a pantropical distribution. It is particularly important as a forest component in west Africa and the neotropics. ''Cynometra alexandri'' (muhimbi) is a familiar timber tree of central and eas ...

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Cynometra aurita ''Cynometra'' is genus of tropical forest trees with a pantropical distribution. It is particularly important as a forest component in west Africa and the neotropics. ''Cynometra alexandri'' (muhimbi) is a familiar timber tree of central and eas ...

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Cynometra bauhiniifolia ''Cynometra'' is genus of tropical forest trees with a pantropical distribution. It is particularly important as a forest component in west Africa and the neotropics. ''Cynometra alexandri'' (muhimbi) is a familiar timber tree of central and eas ...

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Cynometra beddomei ''Cynometra beddomei'' is a species of tree in the family Fabaceae. It was described from a single tree in the Kerala Western Ghats of India. In 1998 it was declared extinct as it had never been seen again since 1870. Trees of the species have ...

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Cynometra bourdillonii ''Cynometra bourdillonii'' is a species of plant in the family Fabaceae. It is found only in Karnataka and Kerala in India. It is threatened by habitat loss Habitat destruction (also termed habitat loss and habitat reduction) is the proces ...

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Cynometra brachymischa ''Cynometra'' is genus of tropical forest trees with a pantropical distribution. It is particularly important as a forest component in west Africa and the neotropics. ''Cynometra alexandri'' (muhimbi) is a familiar timber tree of central and eas ...

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Cynometra brachyrrhachis ''Cynometra brachyrrhachis'' is a species of plant in the family Fabaceae. It is found only in Tanzania. It is threatened by habitat loss Habitat destruction (also termed habitat loss and habitat reduction) is the process by which a natural ...

''* * ' * ' * '' Cynometra capuronii'' * ''

Cynometra cauliflora ''Cynometra cauliflora'' is a small, cauliflorous tree with a thick, heavily branched stem, and rather small flowers, about across, that appear on the stem in clusters. It is known in Indonesian as ''namu-namu'', after the flattened, crescent s ...

'' * '' Cynometra cebuensis'' * ' * '' Cynometra commersoniana'' * '' Cynometra congensis'' * '' Cynometra copelandii'' * '' Cynometra craibii'' * '' Cynometra crassifolia'' * '' Cynometra cubensis'' * '' Cynometra cuneata'' * ' * '' Cynometra dauphinensis'' * ' * ' * ' * ' * '' Cynometra engleri''* * '' Cynometra falcata'' * '' Cynometra filifera''* * '' Cynometra fissicuspis'' * '' Cynometra floretii'' * ' * '' Cynometra gillmanii''* * '' Cynometra glomerulata'' * '' Cynometra grandiflora'' (syn. ''

Maniltoa grandiflora ''Maniltoa grandiflora'' is a species of plant in the family Fabaceae. Common names includes handkerchief tree and pokok sapu tangan. This plant has a synonym ''Maniltoa brawneodes''. It can grow from 5 m to 15 m. The stem is straight, round, bro ...

'' ) * '* * '* * '' Cynometra hemitomophylla'' * ' * '' Cynometra hostmanniana'' * '' Cynometra humboldtiana'' * ''

Cynometra inaequifolia ''Cynometra inaequifolia'' is a species of plant in the family Fabaceae. It is found in Malaysia, the Philippines, and possibly Thailand. It is threatened by habitat loss Habitat destruction (also termed habitat loss and habitat reduction) ...

'' * '' Cynometra insularis'' * '' Cynometra iripa'' * '' Cynometra katikii'' * ' (syn. ''

Maniltoa lenticellata ''Maniltoa lenticellata'' is a flowering tropical tree in the family Fabaceae. It is native to tropical semi-deciduous rainforest and gallery forests in northern Queensland, some of the Torres Strait Islands, and New Guinea New Guinea ( ...

'' ) * '* * ' * '' Cynometra longicuspis'' * '' Cynometra longifolia'' * '' Cynometra longipedicellata''* * '' Cynometra lujae''* * '' Cynometra lukei'' * '' Cynometra lyallii'' * '' Cynometra macrocarpa'' * '' Cynometra madagascariensis'' * ' * '' Cynometra mannii'' * '' Cynometra marginata'' * ' * '' Cynometra marleneae'' * '' Cynometra mayottensis'' * ' * '' Cynometra megalophylla'' * ' * ' (syn. ''

Maniltoa minor ''Maniltoa minor'' is a species of plant in the family Fabaceae. It is found only in Fiji. References minor Minor may refer to: * Minor (law), a person under the age of certain legal activities. ** A person who has not reached the age of ...

'' ) * '' Cynometra minutiflora'' * ' * ' * '' Cynometra nyangensis''* * '' Cynometra oaxacana'' * '' Cynometra oddonii''* * '* * '' Cynometra parvifolia'' * '' Cynometra pedicellata''* * '' Cynometra pervilleana'' * '' Cynometra phaselocarpa'' * ' * '' Cynometra polyandra'' * '' Cynometra portoricensis'' * ' * ''

Cynometra ramiflora A tree in the family Fabaceae, ''Cynometra ramiflora'' is found in mangroves and flooded forests from New Caledonia in the western Pacific west to Queensland in Australia, New Guinea, Maritime Southeast Asia, Island Southeast Asia, and Tropical A ...

'' * '' Cynometra retusa'' * ' (syn. ''

Maniltoa rosea ''Maniltoa rosea'' is a species of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae The Fabaceae or Leguminosae,Cynometra roseiflora'' * '' Cynometra sakalava'' * ' * ' * '' Cynometra schlechteri'' * '' Cynometra schottiana'' * '* * '' Cynometra simplicifolia'' * '' Cynometra sphaerocarpa'' * ' * ' * ' * '' Cynometra suaheliensis''* * '' Cynometra travancorica'' * '' Cynometra trinitensis'' * ' * '' Cynometra ulugurensis''* * ' (syn. ''

Maniltoa vestita ''Maniltoa vestita'' is a species of plant in the family Fabaceae. It is found only in Fiji Fiji ( , ,; fj, Viti, ; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, ''Fijī''), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oc ...

'' ) * ' (syn. ''

Maniltoa floribunda ''Maniltoa floribunda'' is a species of plant in the family Fabaceae. It is found only in Fiji Fiji ( , ,; fj, Viti, ; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, ''Fijī''), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of ...

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Cynometra vogelii ''Cynometra'' is genus of tropical forest trees with a pantropical distribution. It is particularly important as a forest component in west Africa and the neotropics. ''Cynometra alexandri'' (muhimbi) is a familiar timber tree of central and eas ...

'' * '' Cynometra warburgii'' * '' Cynometra webberi''* * ' * '' Cynometra zeylanica''

References

* Fabaceae genera {{Detarioideae-stub