# Samanea

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{{Short description|Genus of legumes}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Samanea-saman.jpg
| image_caption = ''S. saman''
| taxon = Samanea
| authority = ([Benth.](/source/George_Bentham)) [Merr.](/source/Elmer_Drew_Merrill) (1916)
}}

'''''Samanea''''' is a genus of [flowering plant](/source/flowering_plant)s in the family [Fabaceae](/source/Fabaceae). It includes four species of trees native to the tropical Americas, ranging from Belize to Paraguay, and to the [Democratic Republic of the Congo](/source/Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo) in central Africa. Habitats include tropical moist evergreen and seasonally-dry deciduous forest, woodland, and wooded grassland.<ref name = powo/> It belongs to the [mimosoid clade](/source/Mimosoideae) of the 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 type species is ''[Samanea saman](/source/Samanea_saman)'' from South America.

== Taxonomy ==
The name Samanea comes from ''saman'' in [Spanish](/source/Spanish_language) derived from ''zamang'' used for ''[Samanea saman](/source/Samanea_saman)'',<ref name="The Leguminosae">{{cite book |last1=Allen |first1=O. N. |last2=Allen |first2=Ethel K. |author-link2=Ethel K. Allen |title=The Leguminosae, a source book of characteristics, uses, and nodulation |date=1981 |publisher=University of Wisconsin Press |location=Madison, Wisconsin, USA |isbn=978-0-299-08400-4 |pages=590 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6gUXRNc6sDoC&dq=samanea+zamang&pg=PA590}}</ref> this giant ''S. saman'' tree was seen by  [Alexander von Humboldt](/source/Alexander_von_Humboldt) near [Maracay](/source/Maracay), Venezuela in 1799 when he travelled to the Americas from that year to 1804.<ref name="The Leguminosae"/><ref>{{cite book|last1=von Humboldt |first1=Alexander |author-link=Alexander von Humboldt|last2=Bonpland |first2=Aimé |author-link2=Aimé Bonpland |year=1815 |title= Reise in die Aequinoctial-Gegenden des neuen Continents |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z0YJAAAAQAAJ |volume=3 |location=Stuttgart and Tübingen, Germany |publisher=J.G. Cotta}}</ref>

== Species ==
''[Plants of the World Online](/source/Plants_of_the_World_Online)'' lists the following accepted species:<ref name=powo>{{cite web |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:295968-2 |title=''Samanea'' (Benth.) Merr. |date=2023 |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher= Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |access-date=19 September 2023}}</ref>
* ''[Samanea guineensis](/source/Samanea_guineensis)'' <small>(G.C.C.Gilbert & Boutique) Brenan & Brummitt</small>
* ''[Samanea inopinata](/source/Samanea_inopinata)'' <small>(Harms) Barneby & J.W.Grimes</small>
* ''[Samanea saman](/source/Samanea_saman)'' <small>(Jacq.) Merr.</small>
* ''[Samanea tubulosa](/source/Samanea_tubulosa)'' <small>(Benth.) Barneby & J.W.Grimes</small>

== References ==
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Category:Mimosoideae
Category:Fabaceae genera
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