''Platycelyphium voense'' is a species of
flowering plant
Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. The term "angiosperm" is derived from the Greek words ('container, vessel') and ('seed'), and refers to those plants th ...
in the family
. It is a tree native to Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Tanzania in eastern Africa. It grows in bushland and thicket in the Somali-Masai region.
[ It is the only member of the genus ''Platycelyphium''.]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 wide ...
.
References
Sophoreae
Monotypic Fabaceae genera
Taxa named by Adolf Engler
Taxa named by Hermann Harms
Flora of Ethiopia
Flora of Kenya
Flora of Somalia
Flora of Tanzania
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