{{Short description|Genus of legumes}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Macrosamanea.jpg | image_caption = | taxon = Macrosamanea | authority = Britton & Rose (1936) | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = 11; see text | subdivision_ref = <ref name = powo>[https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:22865-1 ''Macrosamanea'' Britton & Rose]. ''Plants of the World Online''. Retrieved 13 September 2023.</ref> }}
'''''Macrosamanea''''' is a genus of flowering plant in the legume family, Fabaceae. It includes 11 species of trees and shrubs native to northern South America. The genus is most diverse and numerous in the Amazon Basin, extending into the Orinoco basin and the Guianas. Typical habitat is tropical rain forest, mostly riparian and seasonally-flooded. Two species are native to seasonally-inundated wooded grassland (savanna) on sandy soils.<ref name = powo/> The genus 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>
==Species== ''Macrosamanea'' includes the following species:<ref name = powo/> * ''Macrosamanea amplissima'' {{small|(Ducke) Barneby & J.W.Grimes}} * ''Macrosamanea consanguinea'' {{small|(R.S.Cowan) Barneby & J.W.Grimes}} * ''Macrosamanea discolor'' {{small|(Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Britton & Rose}} * ''Macrosamanea duckei'' {{small|(Huber) Barneby & J.W.Grimes}} * ''Macrosamanea froesii'' {{small|Barneby & J.W.Grimes}} * ''Macrosamanea kegelii'' {{small|(Meisn.) Kleinhoonte}} * ''Macrosamanea macrocalyx'' {{small|(Ducke) Barneby & J.W.Grimes}} * ''Macrosamanea prancei'' {{small|(Barneby) Barneby & J.W.Grimes}} * ''Macrosamanea pubiramea'' {{small|(Steud.) Barneby & J.W.Grimes}} * ''Macrosamanea simabifolia'' {{small|(Spruce ex Benth.) Pittier}} * ''Macrosamanea spruceana'' {{small|(Benth.) Killip ex Record}}
==References== {{Reflist}}
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Category:Mimosoideae Category:Macrosamanea Category:Fabaceae genera Category:Flora of Southern America Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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