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Samanea

Samanea is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It includes four species of trees native to the tropical Americas, ranging from Belize to Paraguay, and to the Democratic Republic of the Congo in central Africa. Habitats include tropical moist evergreen and seasonally-dry deciduous forest, woodland, and wooded grassland. It belongs to the mimosoid clade of the subfamily Caesalpinioideae. The type species is Samanea saman from South America.

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4 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Monkey pod tree

speciesSamanea saman

Samanea tubulosa

speciesSamanea tubulosa

Samanea inopinata

speciesSamanea inopinata

Samanea dinklagei

speciesSamanea dinklagei

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 138599.