''Paramachaerium'' 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 family

Fabaceae Fabaceae () or Leguminosae,International Code of Nomen ...

native to

Amazonia The Amazon rainforest, also called the Amazon jungle or Amazonia, is a moist broadleaf tropical rainforest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the Amazon basin of South America. This basin encompasses , of which are covered by the rainf ...

. It 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 ...

''Pterocarpus'' clade within 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 ...

Species

''Paramachaerium'' comprises the following species: * '' Paramachaerium gruberi'' Brizicky * '' Paramachaerium krukovii'' Rudd * '' Paramachaerium ormosioides'' (Ducke) Ducke * '' Paramachaerium schomburgkii'' (Benth.) Ducke * '' Paramachaerium schunkei'' Rudd

References

Dalbergieae Fabaceae genera Taxa named by Adolpho Ducke Flora of Southern America Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Dalbergieae-stub