{{Short description|Genus of legumes}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Havardia mexicana - Palmengarten Frankfurt - DSC01730.JPG |image_caption = ''Havardia mexicana'' |taxon = Havardia |authority = Small (1901) |subdivision_ranks = Species |subdivision = five; see text }}
'''''Havardia''''' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It belongs to the mimosoid clade of the subfamily Caesalpinioideae.<ref name="6subfamilies">{{cite journal | author = The Legume Phylogeny Working Group (LPWG). | year = 2017 | title = A new subfamily classification of the Leguminosae based on a taxonomically comprehensive phylogeny | journal = Taxon | volume = 66 | issue = 1 | pages = 44–77 | doi = 10.12705/661.3| doi-access = free | hdl = 10568/90658 | hdl-access = free }}</ref> It includes five species of trees native to the Americas, ranging from Texas and northern Mexico through Central America to Colombia and Venezuela. Typical habitats include warm-temperate and tropical seasonally-dry woodland, wooded grassland, and desert thorn scrub, typically below 450 meters elevation.<ref name = powo>[https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:298190-2 ''Havardia'' Small]. ''Plants of the World Online''. Retrieved 1 September 2023.</ref>
==Species== Five species are accepted:<ref name = powo/> * ''Havardia acatlensis'' {{small|(Benth.) Britton & Rose}} – western and central Mexico * ''Havardia albicans'' <small>(Kunth) Britton & Rose</small> – southern Mexico and Belize * ''Havardia mexicana'' <small>(Rose) Britton & Rose</small> – northern Mexico * ''Havardia pallens'' <small>(Benth.) Britton & Rose</small> – Huajillo – Mexico and Texas * ''Havardia platyloba'' {{small|(Bertero ex DC.) Britton & Rose}} – southern Mexico to Colombia and Venezuela
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==External links== * {{Commons category-inline}} * [https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=500310 ITIS]
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Category:Havardia Category:Fabaceae genera Category:Flora of the Americas
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