Tetrapleura (plant)

For Tetrapleura Parl., see Daucus.

Tetrapleura
Tetrapleura tetraptera
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Fabales
Family:	Fabaceae
Subfamily:	Caesalpinioideae
Clade:	Mimosoid clade
Genus:	Tetrapleura Benth. (1841)

Tetrapleura is a genus of flowering plants in the mimosoid clade of the family Fabaceae.[1] It includes two species of trees native to sub-Saharan Africa, ranging from Senegal to Kenya and Tanzania, and south to Angola. They grow in tropical lowland rain forest, secondary thicket, and fringing forest in the Guineo-Congolian forest and Lake Victoria basin.[2]

Species in this genus include:[2]

• Tetrapleura chevalieri (Harms) Baker f.
• Tetrapleura tetraptera (Schumach. & Thonn.) Taub. – Prekese tree

References

1. The Legume Phylogeny Working Group (LPWG). (2017). "A new subfamily classification of the Leguminosae based on a taxonomically comprehensive phylogeny". Taxon. 66 (1): 44–77. doi:10.12705/661.3. hdl:10568/90658.
2. "Tetrapleura Benth". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanical Gardens Kew. Retrieved 22 September 2023.