{{Short description|Genus of legumes}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Prosopidastrum globosum (8635454334).jpg | image_caption = ''Prosopidastrum globosum'' | taxon = Prosopidastrum | authority = Burkart (1964) | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = 7; see text | subdivision_ref = <ref name = powo>[https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:290909-2 ''Prosopidastrum'' Burkart]. ''Plants of the World Online''. Retrieved 17 September 2023.</ref> }}
'''''Prosopidastrum''''' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It includes seven species of shrubs native to the subtropical Americas, with six species native to Bolivia and Argentina, and one (''Prosopidastrum mexicanum'') native to Baja California. They grow in subtropical xerophytic bushland, thicket, grassland, and semi-desert.<ref name = powo/> 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== *''Prosopidastrum angusticarpum'' {{small|R.A.Palacios & Hoc}} *''Prosopidastrum benthamii'' {{small|(Chodat & Wilczek) R.A.Palacios & Hoc}} *''Prosopidastrum dehiscens'' {{small|R.A.Palacios & Hoc}} *''Prosopidastrum globosum'' {{small|(Gillies ex Hook. & Arn.) Burkart}} *''Prosopidastrum gracile'' {{small|R.A.Palacios & Hoc}} *''Prosopidastrum mexicanum'' {{small|(Dressler) Burkart}} *''Prosopidastrum striatum'' {{small|(Benth.) R.A.Palacios & Hoc}}
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Category:Mimosoideae Category:Fabaceae genera Category:Flora of the Americas
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