Advances in Legume Systematics 14. Classification of Caesalpinioideae. Part 2: Higher-level classification
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Bruneau, Anne
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Institut de recherche en biologie vegetale and Departement de Sciences biologiques, Universite de Montreal, 4101 Sherbrooke E., Montreal (QC) H 1 X 2 B 2, Canada
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de Queiroz, Luciano Paganucci
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Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Departamento de Ciencias Biologicas, Av. Transnordestina s / n, Campus, Novo Horizonte. 44036 - 900, Feira de Santana, BA, Brazil
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Ringelberg, Jens J.
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Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Zurich, Zollikerstrasse 107, 8008 Zurich, Switzerland & School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, Old College, South Bridge, Edinburgh EH 8 9 YL, UK
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Borges, Leonardo M.
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Bortoluzzi, Roseli Lopes da Costa
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Programa de Pos-graduacao em Producao Vegetal, Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina, Centro de Ciencias Agroveterinarias, Avenida Luiz de Camoes 2090, 88520 - 000, Lages, Santa Catarina, Brazil
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Brown, Gillian K.
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Queensland Herbarium and Biodiversity Science, Department of Environment and Science, Toowong, Queensland, 4066, Australia
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Cardoso, Domingos B. O. S.
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Clark, Ruth P.
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Accelerated Taxonomy Department, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, TW 9 3 AE, UK
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Conceicao, Adilva de Souza
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Programa de Pos-graduacao em Diversidade Vegetal, Universidade do Estado da Bahia, Herbario HUNEB, Campus VIII, Rua do Gangorra 503, 48608 - 240, Paulo Afonso, Bahia, Brazil
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Cota, Matheus Martins Teixeira
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Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Departamento de Ciencias Biologicas, Av. Transnordestina s / n, Campus, Novo Horizonte. 44036 - 900, Feira de Santana, BA, Brazil
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Demeulenaere, Else
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Center for Island Sustainability and Sea Grant, University of Guam, UOG Station, Mangilao, 96923, Guam
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de Stefano, Rodrigo Duno
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Centro de Investigacion Cientifica de Yucatan, A. C. (CICY), Calle 43 No. 130 x 32 y 34, Chuburna de Hidalgo; CP 97205, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico
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Ebinger, John E.
Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL 61920, USA
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Ferm, Julia
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Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, 10691, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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Fonseca-Cortes, Andres
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Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Departamento de Ciencias Biologicas, Av. Transnordestina s / n, Campus, Novo Horizonte. 44036 - 900, Feira de Santana, BA, Brazil
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Gagnon, Edeline
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Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Road, Guelph (ON) N 1 G 2 W 1, Canada & Chair of Phytopathology, Technical University Munich, 85354 Freising, Germany & Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 20 A Inverleith Row, Edinburgh, EH 3 5 LR, UK
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Grether, Rosaura
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Guerra, Ethiene
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Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Programa de Pos-Graduacao em Botanica, Av. Bento Goncalves 9500, Bloco IV - Predio 43433, Porto Alegre, RS, 91501 - 970, Brazil
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Haston, Elspeth
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Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 20 A Inverleith Row, Edinburgh, EH 3 5 LR, UK
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Herendeen, Patrick S.
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Chicago Botanic Garden, 1000 Lake Cook Road, Glencoe, IL 60022, USA
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Hernandez, Hector M.
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Departamento de Botanica, Instituto de Biologia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Cd. Universitaria, 04510 Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico
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Hopkins, Helen C. F.
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Accelerated Taxonomy Department, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, TW 9 3 AE, UK
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Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, Isau
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Herbario Alwyn Gentry (HAG), Universidad Nacional Amazonica de Madre de Dios (UNAMAD), AV. Jorge Chavez N ° 1160, Madre de Dios, Peru
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Hughes, Colin E.
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Ickert-Bond, Stefanie M.
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Iganci, Joao
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Koenen, Erik J. M.
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Evolutionary Biology & Ecology, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Faculte des Sciences, Campus du Solbosch - CP 160 / 12, Avenue F. D. Roosevelt, 50, 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium
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Lewis, Gwilym P.
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Accelerated Taxonomy Department, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, TW 9 3 AE, UK
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de Lima, Haroldo Cavalcante
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Instituto de Pesquisas Jardim Botanico do Rio de Janeiro, Pacheco Leao 915, 22460 - 030, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil & Instituto Nacional da Mata Atlantica / INMA-MCTI, Av. Jose Ruschi, 4, Centro, 29650 - 000, Santa Teresa, Espirito Santo, Brazil
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de Lima, Alexandre Gibau
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Instituto de Pesquisas Jardim Botanico do Rio de Janeiro, Pacheco Leao 915, 22460 - 030, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil & Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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Luckow, Melissa
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School of Integrative Plant Science, Plant Biology Section, Cornell University, 215 Garden Avenue, Roberts Hall 260, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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Marazzi, Brigitte
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Natural History Museum of Canton Ticino, Viale C. Cattaneo 4, 6900 Lugano, Switzerland
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Maslin, Bruce R.
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Western Australian Herbarium, Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, Locked Bag 104, Bentley Delivery Centre, Western Australia, 6983, Australia & Singapore Herbarium, 1 Cluny Road, Singapore, Singapore
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Morales, Matias
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Instituto de Recursos Biologicos, CIRN-CNIA, INTA. N. Repetto & Los Reseros s. n., Hurlingham, Buenos Aires, Argentina & Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas (CONICET), Godoy Cruz 2290 (C 1425 FQB), Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Morim, Marli Pires
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Instituto de Pesquisas Jardim Botanico do Rio de Janeiro, Pacheco Leao 915, 22460 - 030, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
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Murphy, Daniel J.
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Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, 3004, Australia
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O'Donnell, Shawn A.
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Geography and Environmental Sciences, Northumbria University, Ellison Place, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE 1 8 ST, UK
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Oliveira, Filipe Gomes
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Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Departamento de Ciencias Biologicas, Av. Transnordestina s / n, Campus, Novo Horizonte. 44036 - 900, Feira de Santana, BA, Brazil
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Oliveira, Ana Carla da Silva
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Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Departamento de Ciencias Biologicas, Av. Transnordestina s / n, Campus, Novo Horizonte. 44036 - 900, Feira de Santana, BA, Brazil
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Rando, Juliana Gastaldello
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Programa de Pos-graduacao em Ciencias Ambientais, Universidade Federal do Oeste da Bahia, Rua Professor Jose Seabra Lemos 316, 47800 - 021, Barreiras, Bahia, Brazil
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Ribeiro, Petala Gomes
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Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Departamento de Ciencias Biologicas, Av. Transnordestina s / n, Campus, Novo Horizonte. 44036 - 900, Feira de Santana, BA, Brazil
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Ribeiro, Carolina Lima
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Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Departamento de Ciencias Biologicas, Av. Transnordestina s / n, Campus, Novo Horizonte. 44036 - 900, Feira de Santana, BA, Brazil
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Santos, Felipe da Silva
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Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Departamento de Ciencias Biologicas, Av. Transnordestina s / n, Campus, Novo Horizonte. 44036 - 900, Feira de Santana, BA, Brazil
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Seigler, David S.
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Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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da Silva, Guilherme Sousa
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Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, 13083 - 876, Sao Paulo / SP, Brazil
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Simon, Marcelo F.
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Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuaria (Embrapa) Recursos Geneticos e Biotecnologia, Parque Estacao Biologica, Caixa Postal 02372, 70770 - 917, Brasilia / DF, Brazil
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Soares, Marcos Vinicius Batista
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Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Programa de Pos-Graduacao em Botanica, Av. Bento Goncalves 9500, Bloco IV - Predio 43433, Porto Alegre, RS, 91501 - 970, Brazil
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Terra, Vanessa
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Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, 97105 - 900, Santa Maria / RS, Brazil
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Tribe
Mimoseae Bronn, Form. Pl. Legumin.: 78, 127, 130. 1822.
Mimosaceae
R. Br., in M. Flinders, Voy. Terra Austral. 2: 551. 1814, nom. cons. Type:
Mimosa
L.
Mimosoideae
DC., Prodr. [A.P. de Candolle] 2: 424. 1825. Type:
Mimosa
L.
Acacieae
Dumort., Anal. Fam. Pl.: 40. 1829. Type:
Acacia
Mill., nom. cons.
Acaciinae
Wight & Arn., Prodr. Fl. Ind. Orient.: 267. 1834. Type:
Acacia
Mill., nom. cons.
Parkiinae
Wight & Arn., Prodr. Fl. Ind. Orient.: 279. 1834. Type:
Parkia
R. Br.
Acaciaceae
E. Mey., Comm. Pl. Afr. Austr. 1: 164. 1836. Type:
Acacia
Mill., nom. cons.
Desmanthinae
Benth., J. Bot. (Hooker) 2: 128. 1840. Type:
Desmanthus
Willd.
Parkieae
Endl., Gen. Pl.: 1323. 1840. Type:
Parkia
R. Br.
Adenantherinae
Benth., J. Bot. (Hooker) 4: 331. 1841. Type:
Adenanthera
L.
Mimosineae
J. Presl,
Nowoceska
Bibl. [
Wsobecny
Rostl.] 7: 346: 421. 1846. Type:
Mimosa
L.
Adenanthereae Benth. & Hook.f., Gen. Pl. 1: 437. 1865. Type:
Adenanthera
L.
Ingeae Benth. & Hook.f., Gen. Pl. 1: 437. 1865. Type:
Inga
Mill.
Piptadenieae
Benth., Trans. Linn. Soc. London 30: 343, 358. 1875. Type:
Piptadenia
Benth.
Desmantheae Kuntze, in von Post & Kuntze, Lex. Gen. Phan.: 646. 1903. Type:
Desmanthus
Willd.
Mimozygantheae Burkart, Darwiniana 3: 447. 1939. Type:
Mimozyganthus
Burkart
Albizieae
Nakai, Chosakuronbun Mokuroku [Ord. Fam. Trib. Nov.]: 251. 1943. Type:
Albizia
Durazz.
Affonseeae Nakai, Chosakuronbun Mokuroku [Ord. Fam. Trib. Nov.]: 251. 1943. Type:
Affonsea
A. St.-Hil. [=
Inga
Mill.]
Type
.
Mimosa
L.
Description.
Trees, shrubs, lianas, suffruticose or herbs, occasionally aquatic; unarmed or armed with prickles, spines or thorns.
Stipules
lateral and free or absent.
Leaves
bipinnate, less frequently paripinnate or modified into phyllodes (many
Acacia
, some
Mimosa
), rarely absent; pinnae and leaflets mostly opposite, rarely alternate; paraphyllidia (reduced basal leaflet pair on the pinnae) present or absent; specialised extrafloral nectaries often present on the petiole and/or on the primary and secondary rachides.
Inflorescence
globose, ellipsoid, umbelliform or corymbiform capitula, spikes or spiciform racemes; arising singly, paired or many from axillary fascicles, more frequently clustered in diversely arranged synflorescences.
Flowers
bisexual or frequently bisexual flowers combined with unisexual and/or sterile flowers in heteromorphic inflorescences, radially symmetrical; hypanthium mostly lacking; sepals and petals (3) 5 (6-8), mostly fused, sepals valvate in bud, rarely imbricate (
Mimozyganthus
,
Parkia
,
Pentaclethra
), petal aestivation valvate, rarely imbricate (
Chidlowia
,
Sympetalandra
), frequently the base of petals and stamens joined into a tube (stemonozone); stamens diplostemonous, haplostemonous or polystemonous, sometimes modified into showy staminodia, free or the filaments fused, anthers basifixed or dorsifixed, dehiscing via longitudinal slits, often with a stipitate or sessile apical gland; pollen commonly in tetrads, bitetrads or polyads, rarely in monads; gynoecium uni- or rarely polycarpellate, 1-many ovulate.
Fruits
1-many-seeded, indehiscent or dehiscent along one or both sutures, often explosively or elastically dehiscent, also often lomentum or craspedium, the endocarp indistinct or separate and fragmented into 1-seeded envelopes.
Seeds
usually with an open (U-shaped) or closed (O-shaped) pleurogram on both faces, sometimes with a fleshy aril or sarcotesta; sometimes winged, hilum usually apical, lens usually inconspicuous; embryo straight. Root nodules present, indeterminate, and always symbiosome-type, or absent (at least 7 genera).
Included genera
(100).
Abarema
Pittier (2 species),
Acacia
Mill. (1082),
Acaciella
Britton & Rose (15),
Adenanthera
L. (12),
Adenopodia
C. Presl (7),
Afrocalliandra
E.R. Souza & L.P. Queiroz (2),
Alantsilodendron
Villiers (11),
Albizia
Durazz. (ca. 90),
Amblygonocarpus
Harms (1),
Anadenanthera
Speg. (2-4),
Anonychium
(Benth.) Schweinf. (1),
Archidendron
F. Muell. (ca. 120),
Archidendropsis
I.C. Nielsen (11),
Aubrevillea
Pellegr. (2),
Blanchetiodendron
Barneby & J.W. Grimes (1),
Boliviadendron
E.R. Souza & C.E. Hughes (1),
Calliandra
Benth. (140),
Calliandropsis
H.M. Hern. & P. Guinet (1),
Calpocalyx
Harms (11),
Cedrelinga
Ducke (1),
Chidlowia
Hoyle (1),
Chloroleucon
(Benth.) Britton & Rose (10),
Cojoba
Britton & Rose (13-19),
Cylicodiscus
Harms (1),
Desmanthus
Willd. (23),
Dichrostachys
(DC.) Wight & Arn. (13-14),
Ebenopsis
Britton & Rose (3),
Entada
Adans. (40),
Enterolobium
Mart. (8),
Faidherbia
A. Chev. (1),
Falcataria
(I.C. Nielsen) Barneby & J.W. Grimes (3),
Fillaeopsis
Harms (1),
Gagnebina
Neck. ex DC. (7),
Gretheria
R. Duno & Torke (2),
Gwilymia
A.G. Lima, Paula-Souza & Scalon (7),
Havardia
Small (3),
Heliodendron
Gill.K. Br. & Bayly (3),
Hesperalbizia
Barneby & J.W. Grimes (1),
Hydrochorea
Barneby & J.W. Grimes (10),
Indopiptadenia
Brenan (1),
Inga
Mill. (ca. 300),
Jupunba
Britton & Rose (37),
Kanaloa
Lorence & K.R. Wood (1),
Lachesiodendron
P.G. Ribeiro, L.P. Queiroz & Luckow (1),
Lemurodendron
Villiers & Guinet (1),
Leucaena
Benth. (24),
Leucochloron
Barneby & J.W. Grimes (4),
Lysiloma
Benth. (8),
Macrosamanea
Britton & Rose ex Britton & Killip (12),
Mariosousa
Seigler & Ebinger (14),
Marlimorimia
L.P. Queiroz, L.M. Borges, Marc.F. Simon & P.G. Ribeiro (6),
Mezcala
C.E. Hughes & J.L. Contr. (1),
Microlobius
C. Presl (1),
Mimosa
L. (615),
Mimozyganthus
Burkart (1),
Naiadendron
A.G. Lima, Paula-Souza & Scalon (1),
Neltuma
Raf. (30),
Neptunia
Lour. (22),
Newtonia
Baill. (11),
Osodendron
E.J.M. Koenen (3),
Painteria
Britton & Rose (2),
Parapiptadenia
Brenan (6),
Pararchidendron
I.C. Nielsen (1),
Parasenegalia
Seigler & Ebinger (11),
Paraserianthes
I.C. Nielsen (1),
Parkia
R. Br. (ca. 35),
Pentaclethra
Benth. (3),
Piptadenia
Benth. (28),
Piptadeniastrum
Brenan (1),
Piptadeniopsis
Burkart (1),
Pithecellobium
Mart. (19),
Pityrocarpa
(Benth.) Britton & Rose (7),
Plathymenia
Benth. (1),
Prosopidastrum
Burkart (ca. 6),
Prosopis
L. (3),
Pseudalbizzia
Britton & Rose (17),
Pseudoprosopis
Harms (7),
Pseudosamanea
Harms (3),
Pseudosenegalia
Seigler & Ebinger (2),
Punjuba
Britton & Rose (5),
Ricoa
R. Duno & Torke (1),
Robrichia
(Barneby & J.W. Grimes) A.R.M. Luz & E.R. Souza (3),
Samanea
(Benth.) Merr. (3),
Sanjappa
E.R. Souza & M.V. Krishnaraj (1),
Schleinitzia
Warb. ex J.C. Willis (4),
Senegalia
Raf. (219),
Serianthes
Benth. (18),
Sphinga
Barneby & J.W. Grimes (3),
Strombocarpa
Engelm. & A. Gray (10),
Stryphnodendron
Mart. (28),
Sympetalandra
Stapf (5),
Tetrapleura
Benth. (2),
Thailentadopsis
Kosterm. (3),
Vachellia
Wight & Arn. (164),
Viguieranthus
Villiers (18),
Wallaceodendron
Koord. (1),
Xerocladia
Harv. (1),
Xylia
Benth. (9),
Zapoteca
H.M. Hern. (22),
Zygia
P. Browne (ca. 60).
Distribution.
Pantropical, with a few species extending marginally into warm temperate regions in North America and Asia, and extratropical South America, southern Africa and Australia.
Clade-based definition.
The most inclusive crown clade containing
Mimosa sensitiva
L. and
Pentaclethra macrophylla
Benth., but not
Pachyelasma tessmannii
(Harms) Harms,
Dimorphandra conjugata
(Splitg.) Sandwith or
Delonix decaryi
(R. Vig.) Capuron (Fig.
5
).
Notes.
Tribe
Mimoseae
as circumscribed here broadly coincides with the limits of the old sense subfamily
Mimosoideae
as adopted in several classical works (e.g.,
Bentham 1865
;
Taubert 1894
;
Hutchinson 1964
;
Polhill and Raven 1981
;
Lewis et al. 2005
). The
Mimosoideae
then comprised a morphologically distinct subfamily defined by a syndrome of morphological traits including bipinnate leaves mostly with specialised extrafloral nectaries, flowers relatively small usually packed in dense inflorescences, corolla with valvate aestivation, the relatively long and showy stamens as the most conspicuous part of the flowers, and seeds usually with a pleurogram. Despite having scattered exceptions to almost all of these traits, it was relatively easy to recognise species as being members of the subfamily (here treated as a tribe).
Phylogenetic studies have since shown that most of the genera included in the
Mimosoideae
comprise a monophyletic group, but nested in a paraphyletic old-sense subfamily
Caesalpinioideae
(
LPWG 2013
,
2017
). The morphological links between the two then accepted subfamilies were exemplified by a series of mimosoid-like genera with bipinnate leaves and small flowers clustered in dense spicate inflorescence, such as
Dimorphandra
Schott and
Erythrophleum
Afzel. ex R. Br., then classified in the
Dimorphandra
group of tribe
Caesalpinieae
(
Caesalpinioideae
;
Polhill and Vidal 1981
). This morphological transition was also observed in the genus
Dinizia
, then placed in tribe
Mimoseae
of subfamily
Mimosoideae
, but which has the imbricate ascending petal aestivation typical of the non-mimosoid
Caesalpinioideae
.
When revising the subfamilial classification for the
Leguminosae
, the Legume Phylogeny Working Group (
LPWG 2013
) acknowledged that one of the central problems was how to deal with the large clade that included several (old-sense)
Caesalpinioideae
lineages and which had the
Mimosoideae
nested within it. The proposed solution was to subsume subfamily
Mimosoideae
into a re-circumscribed subfamily
Caesalpinioideae
that recognised the mimosoid clade in an integrated clade-based phylogenetic classification system (
LPWG 2017
). This option was considered more likely to remain stable through time and is the classification system proposed here, in which, within subfamily
Caesalpinioideae
, a tribal rank is formally ascribed to the entire mimosoid clade (sensu
LPWG 2017
). Tribe
Mimoseae
, as circumscribed here, thus broadly corresponds to the old sense subfamily
Mimosoideae
with three
Hoffmannseggia minor
changes in generic attribution. The genus
Dinizia
, once placed in tribe
Mimoseae
(
Lewis and Elias 1981
), has been resolved outside of the mimosoid clade in all phylogenetic analyses (
Luckow et al. 2000
,
2003
;
Wojciechowski et al. 2004
;
Bruneau et al. 2008
;
LPWG 2017
), but shown only recently to group with the genus
Campsiandra
(tribe
Campsiandreae
, page 187) based on phylogenomic data (
Zhang et al. 2020
;
Ringelberg et al. 2022
).
Sympetalandra
and
Chidlowia
, classified in tribe
Caesalpinieae
by
Polhill and Vidal (1981)
, are now clearly supported as members of
Mimoseae
, even though their respective positions within the tribe are not well resolved. Since
LPWG (2017)
was published, 19 genera have been newly described or re-instated and four have been reduced into synonymy based on newly available phylogenetic data. Recent phylogenies suggest that nine genera (
Alantsilodendron
,
Archidendron
,
Calliandra
1,
Calpocalyx
,
Dichrostachys
,
Parasenegalia
,
Senegalia
,
Xylia
,
Zygia
) are non-monophyletic and require taxonomic revision to recognise only monophyletic genera (
Ringelberg et al. 2022
). As newly circumscribed, tribe
Mimoseae
currently includes 100 genera and ca. 3510 species.
In Advances in Legume Systematics Part 1, five tribes were recognised in subfamily
Mimosoideae
:
Parkieae
,
Mimoseae
, Mimozygantheae,
Acacieae
and Ingeae (
Elias 1981a
). The small tribe
Parkieae
was shown to be non-monophyletic, with both genera
Parkia
and
Penthaclethra
, as well as the monospecific tribe Mimozygantheae, found to be nested in different positions within
Mimoseae
(
Luckow et al. 2003
,
2005
). Similarly, the two large tribes
Acacieae
and Ingeae (
Elias 1981a
;
Lewis 2005c
; Lewis and Rico Arce 2005), which grouped the polystemonous mimosoid legumes, have also been shown to be non-monophyletic in several phylogenetic analyses (e.g.,
Miller et al. 2003
;
Brown et al. 2008
;
Bouchenak-Khelladi et al. 2010
). Genera of tribe Ingeae were grouped in five informal alliances by
Barneby and Grimes (1996)
, a system that was later elaborated to six alliances by Lewis and Rico Arce (2005), but which have all also been shown to be non-monophyletic except one. The recognition at the generic level of isolated lineages and segregates of
Pithecellobium
initiated by
Nielsen (1981a)
and
Barneby and Grimes (1996
,
1997
), and pursued in Advances in Legume Systematics 14, Part 1 (
Hughes et al. 2022a
), has resolved many issues of generic non-monophyly. Even though the classification of
Mimosoideae
has been known to be unsatisfactory for the last two decades, lack of support and conflicting hypotheses of relationships between studies using different molecular markers and taxonomic sampling (e.g.,
Luckow et al. 2003
, 2007;
Miller et al. 2003
;
Brown et al. 2008
;
Bouchenak-Khelladi et al. 2010
;
LPWG 2017
) meant that no new taxonomic arrangement could be proposed. The phylogenomic analyses of
Koenen et al. (2020a)
, subsequently confirmed by
Ringelberg et al. (2022)
with broader taxon sampling, have enhanced resolution, prompting recognition of two nested higher-level clades subtended by relatively long internodes. The core mimosoid clade groups the majority of the
Mimoseae
, including all of the larger genera, and almost all of the armed mimosoids (genera and species with stipular spines, spinescent shoots, and/or prickles) (
Koenen et al. 2020a
). The ingoid clade includes all genera of tribes Ingeae and
Acacieae
(sensu
Elias 1981a
;
Lewis 2005c
; Lewis and Rico Arce 2005), except
Vachellia
, and thus recognises as a clade all genera with polystemonous flowers (except
Vachellia
) and a synandrous androecium (
Koenen et al. 2020a
), although neither of these characters are universal within the clade. However, relationships amongst the lineages of the ingoid clade remain difficult to resolve even with large phylogenomic datasets, likely the consequence of rapid speciation leading to low phylogenetic signal and a putative hard polytomy comprising six or seven lineages (
Koenen et al. 2020a
).
Despite this putative hard polytomy along the backbone of the ingoid clade, the phylogenomic backbone of the
Mimoseae
of
Koenen et al. (2020a)
and
Ringelberg et al. (2022)
(Fig.
5
) provides a solid framework for recognizing 17 lower-level clades that together include 86 of the 100 genera in tribe
Mimoseae
. Two of these clades were not recognised by
Koenen et al. (2020a)
nor
Ringelberg et al. (2022)
, and are added here following disintegration of the genus
Prosopis
proposed by
Hughes et al. (2022b)
. The phylogenetic positions of five genera were poorly or not resolved in terms of their closest relatives:
Chidlowia
and
Sympetalandra
with respect to the
Adenanthera
clade and the remainder of
Mimoseae
;
Cylicodiscus
relative to the
Prosopis
clade and the remainder of the core mimosoids; and
Cedrelinga
and
Pseudosamanea
with respect to their positions in the ingoid clade. A sixth taxon,
Lachesiodendron
, is resolved as sister to a big clade that includes the
Stryphnodendron
,
Mimosa
and ingoid clades (60 genera) and is considered here as an isolated lineage. In addition, eight genera are placed in sequential order in two grades rather than being resolved in one of the 17 clades. Four genera are part of a grade that subtends the core mimosoid clade and is here informally designated as the
Newtonia
grade and four genera, constituting the earliest-diverging lineages in the ingoid clade, are part of a grade that is here informally referred to as the
Senegalia
grade.
The alternative solution for classification of this group, that of recognising multiple tribes within the mimosoid clade, is untenable given the imbalanced,
"ladder-like"
phylogenomic backbone of the mimosoid legumes (Fig.
5
) (
Koenen et al. 2020a
;
Ringelberg et al. 2022
), with eight genera forming grades subtending large clades and several genera with unresolved or phylogenetically isolated positions. This alternative solution would result in a system of more than 30 tribes, of which more than one third would be monogeneric and many others would comprise only two to five genera, which would be impractical and cumbersome and lead to an unnecessary proliferation of supra-generic Linnean names. We thus chose to recognise the entire mimosoid clade as one tribe, the
Mimoseae
, with a circumscription roughly equivalent to the old-sense subfamily
Mimosoideae
. The following treatments provide formal descriptions and information for the 17 well-supported lower-level clades, each formally defined and named after a characteristic genus of the clade; sequentially ordered single genus lineages in two grades, these informally labelled also by a genus characteristic of the grade; and six monogeneric lineages whose phylogenetic placements are either unresolved or isolated in
Mimoseae
.
Thus, in the following taxonomic arrangement, 25 treatments are presented for tribe
Mimoseae
(the numbers between brackets refer to the number of genera):
Tribe
Mimoseae
13.
Adenanthera
clade (7 genera)
14.
Sympetalandra
(1)
15.
Chidlowia
(1)
16.
Entada
clade (3)
17.
Newtonia
grade (4)
Core mimosoid clade
18.
Cylicodiscus
(1)
19.
Prosopis
clade (2)
20.
Neltuma
clade (3)
21.
Dichrostachys
clade (14)
22.
Parkia
clade (3)
23.
Lachesiodendron
(1)
24.
Stryphnodendron
clade (7)
25.
Mimosa
clade (3)
Ingoid clade
26.
Senegalia
grade (4)
27.
Calliandra
clade (3)
28.
Zapoteca
clade (5)
29.
Cojoba
clade (3)
30.
Pithecellobium
clade (7)
31.
Archidendron
clade (9)
32.
Cedrelinga
(1)
33.
Pseudosamanea
(1)
34.
Jupunba
clade (4)
35.
Samanea
clade (2)
36.
Albizia
clade (3)
37.
Inga
clade (8)