Dorycnopsis Abyssinica
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''Dorycnopsis'' is a genus of
flowering plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (). The term angiosperm is derived from the Ancient Greek, Greek words (; 'container, vessel') and (; 'seed'), meaning that the seeds are enclosed with ...
s in the
legume Legumes are plants in the pea family Fabaceae (or Leguminosae), or the fruit or seeds of such plants. When used as a dry grain for human consumption, the seeds are also called pulses. Legumes are grown agriculturally, primarily for human consum ...
family
Fabaceae Fabaceae () or Leguminosae,International Code of Nomen ...
. 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 ...
. It includes two species of subshrubs, one native to southwestern Europe and Morocco, and the other native to the
Horn of Africa The Horn of Africa (HoA), also known as the Somali Peninsula, is a large peninsula and geopolitical region in East Africa.Robert Stock, ''Africa South of the Sahara, Second Edition: A Geographical Interpretation'', (The Guilford Press; 2004), ...
and
Yemen Yemen, officially the Republic of Yemen, is a country in West Asia. Located in South Arabia, southern Arabia, it borders Saudi Arabia to Saudi Arabia–Yemen border, the north, Oman to Oman–Yemen border, the northeast, the south-eastern part ...
. *'' Dorycnopsis abyssinica'' – northeastern tropical Africa (Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Sudan) and Yemen *'' Dorycnopsis gerardi'' – southwestern Europe (Italy, Sardinia, France, Corsica, Spain, and Portugal) and Morocco


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Loteae Fabaceae genera Taxa named by Pierre Edmond Boissier {{Loteae-stub