Harpalyce (plant) explained

Harpalyce is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae. It includes 35 species of shrubs and small trees native to the tropical Americas. Their distribution is disjunct, ranging from Mexico to Nicaragua, Cuba, and northern to southeastern Brazil and Bolivia. Typical habitats include seasonally-dry tropical forest, warm-temperate humid forest, woodland, bushland and thicket, shrubland, and grassland. Most species are evergreen and flower during the dry season.^[1]

Species

Harpalyce comprises the following species:^{[1] [2] [3]}

• Harpalyce acunae Borhidi & O.Muñiz
• Harpalyce alainii Leon

• Harpalyce arborescens A.Gray
• Harpalyce baracoensis Borhidi & O.Muñiz
• Harpalyce borhidii O.Muñiz
• Harpalyce brasiliana Benth.
• Harpalyce correntina
• Harpalyce cristalensis Borhidi & O.Muñiz
• Harpalyce cubensis Griseb.
• Harpalyce ekmanii Urb.

• Harpalyce flexuosa León & Alain ex Borhidi & O.Muñiz (unplaced)

• Harpalyce formosa DC.

• Harpalyce greuteri

• Harpalyce hilariana Benth.
• Harpalyce lanata
• Harpalyce lepidota Taub.

• Harpalyce macedoi R.S.Cowan

• Harpalyce macrocarpa Britton & P.Wilson
• Harpalyce magnibracteata
• Harpalyce maisiana León & Alain
• Harpalyce mexicana Rose
• Harpalyce minor Benth.

• Harpalyce nipensis Urb.
• Harpalyce parvifolia H.S.Irwin & Arroyo
• Harpalyce pringlei Rose

• Harpalyce riparia São-Mateus, L.P.Queiroz & D.B.O.S.Cardoso^[4]
• Harpalyce robusta H.S.Irwin & Arroyo
• Harpalyce rupicola Donn.Sm.
• Harpalyce sousae Arroyo
• Harpalyce speciosa
• Harpalyce suberosa
• Harpalyce toaensis Borhidi & O.Muñiz
• Harpalyce tombadorensis
• Harpalyce torresii
• Harpalyce villosa Britton & P.Wilson
• Harpalyce yucatanense

Notes and References

1. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:22559-1 Harpalyce Moc. & Sessé ex DC.
2. Web site: ILDIS LegumeWeb entry for Harpalyce . . International Legume Database & Information Service . Cardiff School of Computer Science & Informatics . 21 February 2014 .
3. Web site: GRIN species records of Harpalyce . USDA . USDA . ARS . Agricultural Research Service . National Genetic Resources Program . Germplasm Resources Information Network—(GRIN) [Online Database] . National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland . 21 February 2014 .
4. São-Mateus WM, de Queiroz LP, Gomes Jardim J, Cardoso DB . 2018 . Harpalyce riparia (Leguminosae, Papilionoideae), a New Species from the Campos Rupestres of the Chapada Diamantina in Bahia, Brazil . Systematic Botany . 43 . 1 . 206–211 . 10.1600/036364418X697102. 89752990 .