{{Short description|Genus of legumes}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Peltophorum pterocarpum1.JPG | image_caption = ''Peltophorum pterocarpum'' | taxon = Peltophorum | authority = (Vogel) Benth. | type_species = ''Peltophorum vogelianum'' | type_species_authority = Benth. [''nom. illegit.''] | synonyms = ''Baryxylum'' <small>Lour.</small> | synonyms_ref = <ref name = powo>{{cite web |title=''Peltophorum'' (Vogel) Benth.. |work=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew|url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1166529-2 |access-date=14 September 2023}}</ref> }}
'''''Peltophorum''''' is a genus of 5–15 species of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae, 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> The genus is native to certain tropical regions across the world, including northern South America, central and southern Africa, Indochina, southeastern China, Malesia, New Guinea, and northern Australia.<ref name = powo/> The species are medium-sized to large trees growing up to 15–25 m tall, rarely 50 m.<ref name=grin>Germplasm Resources Information Network: [http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?9007 ''Peltophorum''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081014142510/http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?9007 |date=2008-10-14 }}</ref><ref name=rhs>Huxley, A., ed. (1992). ''New RHS Dictionary of Gardening''. Macmillan {{ISBN|0-333-47494-5}}.</ref>
== Etymology == ''Peltophorum'' literally means "shield-bearing": from Greek {{transliteration|grc|pelt(ē)}} ({{wikt-lang|grc|πέλτη}}, "''peltē'' shield"), with the interfix {{wikt-lang|la|-o-}}, ''-phor(os)'' ("bearing") and Neo-Latin suffix {{wikt-lang|la|-um}}.
It is a reference to the peltate (shield-like) form of the plant's stigma.<ref>{{cite book |title=Some beautiful Indian Trees |last=Blatter |first=Ethelbert |author2=Millard, Walter Samuel |year=1977 |publisher=Bombay natural History Society |location=Mumbai |edition=2|orig-year=1937|pages=109–111 | quote = The generic name ''Peltophorum'' means "shield-bearing" (from the ancient Greek word {{lang|grc|πέλτη}} [{{transliteration|grc|pĕltē}}] "a small light shield") and refers to the peltate stigma.}}</ref>
==Species== {{As of|2023|September}}, the following species were accepted by ''Plants of the World Online'':<ref name=powo/> *''Peltophorum africanum'' <small>Sond.</small> *''Peltophorum dasyrhachis'' <small>(Miq.) Kurz</small> *''Peltophorum dubium'' <small>(Spreng.) Taub.</small> *''Peltophorum grande'' <small>Prain</small> *''Peltophorum pterocarpum'' <small>(DC.) K.Heyne</small> *''Peltophorum racemosum'' <small>Merr.</small> *''Peltophorum venezuelense'' <small>L.Cardenas, Rodr.-Rodr. & Varela</small>
==References== {{Reflist|32em}}
==External links== *{{Commons category-inline|Peltophorum|''Peltophorum''}} *{{Wikispecies-inline|Peltophorum|''Peltophorum''}}
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Category:Peltophorum Category:Fabaceae genera Category:Caesalpinioideae Category:Taxa named by George Bentham
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