Brownea

{{Short description|Genus of legumes}} {{automatic taxobox |image = Brownea ariza0.jpg |image_caption = ''Brownea ariza'' |taxon = Brownea |authority = Jacq. (1760), nom. cons. |display_parents = 2 |subdivision_ranks = Species |subdivision = 22; see text |subdivision_ref = <ref name = powo>[https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:331429-2 ''Brownea'' Jacq.] ''Plants of the World Online''. Retrieved 14 August 2023.</ref> |synonyms = * ''Brownaea'' <small>Jacq.</small> * ''Hermesias'' <small>Loefl. (1758)</small><ref name = powo/> }}

'''''Brownea''''' is a genus of flowering plants in the pea family (Fabaceae), subfamily Detarioideae. The genus includes about 22 species native to tropical regions of the Americas.<ref name = powo/> The species are shrubs and trees growing to 20 m tall.<ref name=ildis>LegumeWeb: [http://www.ildis.org/LegumeWeb?version~10.01&LegumeWeb&genus~Brownea&species~% ''Brownea'']</ref><ref name=grin>Germplasm Resources Information Network: [http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?1738 ''Brownea''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081015051110/http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?1738 |date=2008-10-15 }}</ref><ref name=rhs>Huxley, A., ed. (1992). ''New RHS Dictionary of Gardening''. Macmillan {{ISBN|0-333-47494-5}}.</ref> Species range from Honduras through southern Central America and northern South America to Peru and northern Brazil, and to Trinidad and Tobago and the Windward Islands in the Caribbean. Species are typically understorey trees or shrubs in lowland tropical rain forest.<ref name = powo/>

;Species: 22 species are accepted:<ref name = powo/> *''Brownea angustiflora'' {{small|Little}} *''Brownea ariza'' {{small|Benth.}} *''Brownea birschellii'' {{small|Hook.f.}} *''Brownea bolivarensis'' {{small|Pittier}} *''Brownea chocoana'' {{small|Quiñones}} *''Brownea coccinea'' {{small|Jacq.}} *''Brownea enricii'' {{small|Quiñones}} *''Brownea gladisrojasiae'' {{small|D.Velásquez & G.Agostini}} *''Brownea grandiceps'' {{small|Jacq.}} *''Brownea hermesias'' {{small|Mutis}} *''Brownea jaramilloi'' {{small|Á.J.Pérez & Klitg.}} *''Brownea leucantha'' {{small|Jacq.}} *''Brownea longipedicellata'' {{small|Huber}} *''Brownea macrophylla'' {{small|Linden ex Mast.}} *''Brownea multijuga'' {{small|Britton & Killip}} *''Brownea negrensis'' {{small|Benth.}} *''Brownea puberula'' {{small|Little}} *''Brownea rosa-de-monte'' {{small|P.J.Bergius}} *''Brownea santanderensis'' {{small|Quiñones}} *''Brownea similis'' {{small|R.S.Cowan}} *''Brownea stenantha'' {{small|Britton & Killip}} *''Brownea tillettiana'' {{small|D.Velásquez & G.Agostini}}

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Category:Brownea Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Category:Fabaceae genera Category:Flora of Southern America Category:Taxa named by Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin