Macroptilium

{{Short description|Genus of legumes}}

{{Automatic_taxobox

| image = Starr 040324-0024 Macroptilium lathyroides.jpg

| image_caption = Macroptilium lathyroides

| display_parents = 3

| taxon = Macroptilium

| authority = (Benth.) Urb.

| type_species = Macroptilium lathyroides

| type_species_authority = (L.) Urb.

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = See text.

}}

Macroptilium is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae.

Species

Macroptilium is made up of 19 species segregated into two monophyletic sections.{{cite journal |vauthors=Espert SM, Drewes SI, Burghardt AD | year = 2007 | title = Phylogeny of Macroptilium (Leguminosae): morphological, biochemical and molecular evidence | journal = Cladistics | volume = 23 | issue = 2 | pages = 119–129 | doi = 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2006.00140.x | s2cid = 85112562 | doi-access = free | pmid = 34905850 | hdl = 11336/29387 | hdl-access = free }}{{cite journal |vauthors=Delgado-Salinas A, Lewis GP | year = 2008 | title = A new species of Macroptilium (Benth.) Urb. (Leguminosae: Papilionoideae: Phaseolinae) from North-Eastern Brazil | journal = Kew Bull | volume = 63 | issue = 1 | pages = 151–154 | doi = 10.1007/s12225-007-9010-x | bibcode = 2008KewBu..63..151D | s2cid = 11603199 }}

=Section ''Macroptilium''=

=Section ''Microcochle''=

References

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