Trischidium

Trischidium is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It includes five species of trees and shrubs native to northern South America. All species are native to Brazil, with one species (Trischidium molle) extending to Bolivia, and another (T. alternum) to Bolivia, Colombia, Guyana, and Peru. Two species are native to tropical non-inundated Amazonian rain forest, one to coastal forest, and two to seasonally-dry cerrado (savanna and woodland) and caatinga (thorny bushland).[1]

Trischidium
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Tribe: Swartzieae
Genus: Trischidium
Tul.
Type species
Trischidium vestitum
Tul. (1843)
Species[1]
  • Trischidium alternum (Benth.) H.E.Ireland
  • Trischidium decipiens (A.Lyons) H.E.Ireland
  • Trischidium limae (R.S.Cowan) H.E.Ireland
  • Trischidium molle (Benth.) H.E.Ireland
  • Trischidium racemulosum (Huber) H.E.Ireland
Synonyms[1]

Dithyria Benth. (1840), nom. provis.

It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae. It was recently reinstated after existing for some time as a junior synonym of Bocoa.[2] It is closely related to the genera Ateleia and Cyathostegia.[1]

References
  1. Trischidium Tul. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 22 September 2023.
  2. Ireland HE (2007). "Taxonomic changes in the South American genus Bocoa (Leguminosae–Swartzieae): Reinstatement of the name Trischidium, and a synopsis of both genera". Kew Bull. 62 (2): 333–350. JSTOR 20443359.
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