Painteria

{{Short description|Genus of legumes}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Contributions from the U.S. National Herbarium (1906) (20063933014).jpg |image_caption = ''Painteria revoluta'' |taxon = Painteria |authority = Britton & Rose (1928) |subdivision_ranks = Species |subdivision = 2; see text |subdivision_ref = <ref name = powo/> }}

'''''Painteria''''' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It includes two species of shrubs or small trees native to Mexico. Typical habitats include desert grassland and shrubland (matorral) on the Mexican Plateau, and in the lowlands of Tamaulipas in northeastern Mexico.<ref name = powo>[http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:296882-2 ''Painteria'' Britton & Rose]. ''Plants of the World Online'', Kew Science. Retrieved 13 September 2023.</ref> 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>

Species include:<ref name=powo/> *''Painteria elachistophylla'' {{small|(A.Gray ex S.Watson) Britton & Rose}} *''Painteria leptophylla'' {{small|(Rose) Britton & Rose}}

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Category:Mimosoideae Category:Fabaceae genera Category:Endemic flora of Mexico