# Peltophorum

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{{Short description|Genus of legumes}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Peltophorum pterocarpum1.JPG
| image_caption = ''[Peltophorum pterocarpum](/source/Peltophorum_pterocarpum)''
| taxon = Peltophorum 
| authority = ([Vogel](/source/Julius_Rudolph_Theodor_Vogel)) [Benth.](/source/George_Bentham)
| type_species = ''[Peltophorum vogelianum](/source/Peltophorum_dubium)''
| type_species_authority = [Benth.](/source/George_Bentham) [''[nom. illegit.](/source/nomen_illegitimum)'']
| synonyms = ''Baryxylum'' <small>[Lour.](/source/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 plant](/source/flowering_plant)s in the family [Fabaceae](/source/Fabaceae), subfamily [Caesalpinioideae](/source/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](/source/Taxon_(journal)) | 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](/source/Tropics) regions across the world, including northern South America, central and southern Africa, Indochina, southeastern China, [Malesia](/source/Malesia), New Guinea, and northern Australia.<ref name = powo/> The species are medium-sized to large [tree](/source/tree)s growing up to 15–25&nbsp;m tall, rarely 50&nbsp;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](/source/pelt%C4%93)"), with the interfix {{wikt-lang|la|-o-}}, ''-phor(os)'' ("bearing") and [Neo-Latin](/source/Neo-Latin) suffix {{wikt-lang|la|-um}}.

It is a reference to the [peltate](/source/peltate) (shield-like) form of the plant's [stigma](/source/stigma_(botany)).<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](/source/stigma_(botany)).}}</ref>

==Species==
{{As of|2023|September}}, the following species were accepted by ''[Plants of the World Online](/source/Plants_of_the_World_Online)'':<ref name=powo/>
*''[Peltophorum africanum](/source/Peltophorum_africanum)'' <small>Sond.</small>
*''[Peltophorum dasyrhachis](/source/Peltophorum_dasyrhachis)'' <small>(Miq.) Kurz</small>
*''[Peltophorum dubium](/source/Peltophorum_dubium)'' <small>(Spreng.) Taub.</small>
*''[Peltophorum grande](/source/Peltophorum_grande)'' <small>Prain</small>
*''[Peltophorum pterocarpum](/source/Peltophorum_pterocarpum)'' <small>(DC.) K.Heyne</small>
*''[Peltophorum racemosum](/source/Peltophorum_racemosum)'' <small>Merr.</small>
*''[Peltophorum venezuelense](/source/Peltophorum_venezuelense)'' <small>L.Cardenas, Rodr.-Rodr. & Varela</small>

==References==
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==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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