# Vatairea

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***Vatairea*** is a genus of [flowering plants](/source/Flowering_plant) in the [legume](/source/Legume) family, [Fabaceae](/source/Fabaceae). It includes eight species of tall trees native to the tropical Americas, ranging from southern Mexico to Bolivia and southern Brazil. Seven species are native to northern South America, with the center of diversity in [Amazonia](/source/Amazon_rainforest). *[Vatairea lundellii](/source/Vatairea_lundellii)* ranges from southern Mexico to Panama. Most species grow in tropical rain forest, often in the inundated forests known as igapó and varzea, where they are emergent trees, growing above the forest canopy. *[V. macrocarpa](/source/Vatairea_macrocarpa)* grows in seasonally-dry forest, [cerrado](/source/Cerrado) (savanna and woodland), and [caatinga](/source/Caatinga) (scrub forest).[1]

It belongs to the subfamily [Faboideae](/source/Faboideae). It was traditionally assigned to the tribe [Dalbergieae](/source/Dalbergieae), mainly on the basis of flower morphology;[2] recent [molecular phylogenetic](/source/Molecular_phylogenetic) analyses [assigned](/source/Circumscription_(taxonomy)) *Vatairea* into an informal, monophyletic clade called the "[vataireoids](/source/Vataireoids)".[3][4]

## References

1. [*Vatairea* Aubl.](https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:23763-1) *[Plants of the World Online](/source/Plants_of_the_World_Online)*. Retrieved 23 September 2023.

1. Polhill RM (1981). ["Dalbergieae"](https://web.archive.org/web/20130723234652/http://www.kewbooks.com/asps/ShowDetails.asp?id=318). *Advances in Legume Systematics, Part 1*. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. pp. 233–242. ISBN 9780855212247. Archived from [the original](http://www.kewbooks.com/asps/ShowDetails.asp?id=318) on 2013-07-23. Retrieved 2013-11-25.

1. Cardoso D, Pennington RT, de Queiroz LP, Boatwright JS, Van Wyk BE, Wojciechowskie MF, Lavin M (2013). "Reconstructing the deep-branching relationships of the papilionoid legumes". *S Afr J Bot*. **89**: 58–75. [doi:10.1016/j.sajb.2013.05.001](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sajb.2013.05.001). [hdl:10566/3193](https://hdl.handle.net/10566/3193)

1. Cardoso D, Paganucci de Queiroz L, Cavalcante de Lima H, Suganuma E, van den Berg C, Lavin M (2013). "A molecular phylogeny of the vataireoid legumes underscores floral evolvability that is general to many early-branching papilionoid lineages". *[Am J Bot](/source/American_Journal_of_Botany)*. **100** (2): 403–21. [doi:10.3732/ajb.1200276](https://doi.org/10.3732/ajb.1200276). [PMID 23378491](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23378491)

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