{{Short description|Genus of legumes}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Coulteria platyloba imported from iNaturalist photo 4279987 on 14 March 2024.jpg |image_caption = ''Coulteria platyloba'', Mazatlán, Mexico |taxon = Coulteria |authority = (Kunth 1824) E. Gagnon, Sotuyo & G. P. Lewis 2016 |type_species = ''Coulteria mollis'' |type_species_authority = Kunth 1824 |subdivision_ranks = Species |subdivision = 10; see text |subdivision_ref = <ref name = powo>[https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:22104-1 ''Coulteria'' Kunth]. ''Plants of the World Online''. Retrieved 13 August 2023.</ref> |synonyms = * ''Adenocalyx'' {{small|Bertero ex Kunth (1824)}} * ''Brasilettia'' {{small|(DC.) Kuntze (1891)}} * ''Guaymasia'' <small>Britton & Rose (1930)</small> |synonyms_ref = <ref name = powo/> }}
'''''Coulteria''''' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It belongs to the subfamily Caesalpinioideae. It includes ten species native the tropical Americas, from northern Mexico through Central America to Colombia and Venzezuela, including Cuba and Jamaica.<ref name = powo/>
==Species== '''''Coulteria''''' comprises the following species:<ref name = powo/><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Sotuyo S, Contreras JL, Gagnon E, Lewis GP | year = 2017 | title = A synopsis of ''Coulteria'' (Leguminosae), including new names and synonyms | journal = Phytotaxa | volume = 291 | issue = 1 | pages = 33–42 | doi = 10.11646/phytotaxa.291.1.3| url = https://zenodo.org/record/896629 }}</ref> <!-- Coulteria africana was reclassified as Prosopis africana. --> <!-- Coulteria chilensis was reclassified as Tara spinosa. --> * ''Coulteria cubensis'' <small>(Greenm. 1897) S. Sotuyo & G.P. Lewis 2017</small> – Cuba, Jamaica, southeastern Mexico, Belize, and Honduras * ''Coulteria delgadoana'' {{small|Sotuyo & J.L.Contr.}} – southwestern Mexico (Michoacán and Guerrero) * ''Coulteria glabra'' <small>(Britton & Rose 1930) J.L. Contreras, S. Sotuyo & G.P. Lewis 2017</small> – western Mexico <!-- Coulteria horrida was reclassified as Tara spinosa. --> * ''Coulteria lewisii'' {{small|Sotuyo & J.L.Contr.}} – southwestern Mexico (Michoacán and Guerrero) <!-- Coulteria linnaei was reclassified as Coulteria cubensis. --> <!-- Coulteria mexicana was reclassified as Tara vesicaria. --> * ''Coulteria mollis'' <small>Kunth</small> – eastern Mexico to Colombia and Venezuela * ''Coulteria platyloba'' <small>(S.Watson) N.Zamora</small> – Mexico, Guatemala, and Costa Rica * ''Coulteria pringlei'' <small>(Britton & Rose 1930) J.L. Contreras, S. Sotuyo & G.P. Lewis 2017</small> – northeastern Mexico * ''Coulteria pumila'' <small>(Britton & Rose 1930) S. Sotuyo & G.P. Lewis 2017</small> – northwestern Mexico (Sonora) * ''Coulteria rosalindamedinae'' {{small|R.Torres, Saynes & Tenorio}} – south-central Mexico Puebla and Oaxaca) <!-- Coulteria tinctoria was reclassified as Tara spinosa. --> * ''Coulteria velutina'' <small>(Britton & Rose 1930) S. Sotuyo & G.P. Lewis 2017</small> – northwestern Mexico to Nicaragua
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Category:Caesalpinieae Category:Fabaceae genera Category:Flora of the Neotropical realm
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