{{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'' <small>(Gillies ex Hook. & Arn.) Burkart</small> * ''Geoffroea spinosa'' <small>Jacq.</small> * ''Geoffroea subtropicalis'' {{small|(Lillo) Mart.Carr.}} | subdivision_ref = <ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.ildis.org/LegumeWeb?version~10.01&genus~Geoffroea&species~ | title = ILDIS LegumeWeb entry for ''Geoffroea'' | author = <!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> | website = International Legume Database & Information Service | publisher = Cardiff School of Computer Science & Informatics | accessdate = 10 February 2014 }}</ref><ref name = powo>[https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:22478-1 ''Geoffroea'' Jacq.] ''Plants of the World Online''. Retrieved 31 August 2023.</ref><ref name="Ireland">{{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 }}</ref> | synonyms = * ''Geoffraea'' {{small|L. (1763), orth. var.}} * ''Gourliea'' {{small|Gillies ex Hook. & Arn.(1833)}} * ''Umari'' {{small|Adans. (1763)}} | synonyms_ref = <ref name = powo/> | range_map = Geoffroea distribution.svg | range_map_caption = '''Key:'''<ref name="Ireland" /> {{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.<ref name="Lavin">{{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 }}</ref><ref name="Cardoso">{{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 }}</ref>
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Category:Dalbergieae Category:Fabaceae genera Category:Flora of Southern America Category:Taxa named by Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin
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