Geoffroea

{{Short description|Genus of legumes}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Geoffroea_decorticans2.jpg

| image_caption = Flowering Geoffroea decorticans in detail

| taxon = Geoffroea

| authority = Jacq. (1760)

| type_species = Geoffroea spinosa

| type_species_authority = Jacq.

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

• Geoffroea decorticans (Gillies ex Hook. & Arn.) Burkart
• Geoffroea spinosa Jacq.
• Geoffroea subtropicalis {{small|(Lillo) Mart.Carr.}}

| subdivision_ref = {{cite web | url = http://www.ildis.org/LegumeWeb?version~10.01&genus~Geoffroea&species~ | title = ILDIS LegumeWeb entry for Geoffroea | author = | website = International Legume Database & Information Service | publisher = Cardiff School of Computer Science & Informatics | accessdate = 10 February 2014 }}[https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:22478-1 Geoffroea Jacq.] Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 31 August 2023.{{cite journal |vauthors=Ireland H, Pennington RT | year = 2013 | title = A revision of Geoffroea (Leguminosae: Papilionoideae) | journal = Edinb J Bot | volume = 56 | issue = 3 | pages = 329–347| doi = 10.1017/S0960428600001293 | doi-access = free }}

| synonyms =

• Geoffraea {{small|L. (1763), orth. var.}}
• Gourliea {{small|Gillies ex Hook. & Arn.(1833)}}
• Umari {{small|Adans. (1763)}}

| synonyms_ref =

| range_map = Geoffroea distribution.svg

| range_map_caption = Key:

{{Legend|#00FF00|Range of Geoffroea decorticans.}}

{{Legend|#008000|Range of Geoffroea spinosa.}}

}}

Geoffroea is a rather small genus of wild spiny shrubs or small trees of tropical and subtropical South America. Although it gathers few species, they are highly extended geographically throughout the subcontinent. Each species is well known in its local area, as seen from the varied (and mostly domestic) usage of these trees as food, timber, or fuel. It was recently assigned to the informal monophyletic Pterocarpus clade within the Dalbergieae.{{cite journal | vauthors = Lavin M, Pennington RT, Klitgaard BB, Sprent JI, de Lima HC, Gasson PE | year = 2001 | title = The dalbergioid legumes (Fabaceae): delimitation of a pantropical monophyletic clade | journal = Am J Bot | volume = 88 | issue = 3 | pages = 503–33 | pmid = 11250829 | doi = 10.2307/2657116 | jstor = 2657116 }}{{cite journal |vauthors=Cardoso D, Pennington RT, de Queiroz LP, Boatwright JS, Van Wyk BE, Wojciechowskie MF, Lavin M | year = 2013 | title = Reconstructing the deep-branching relationships of the papilionoid legumes | journal = S Afr J Bot | volume = 89 | pages = 58–75 | doi = 10.1016/j.sajb.2013.05.001 | doi-access = free | hdl = 10566/3193 | hdl-access = free }}