Andira clade

The Andira clade is a predominantly Neotropical, monophyletic clade of the flowering plant subfamily Faboideae (or Papilionaceae).^[1][2] The members of this clade were formerly included in tribe Dalbergieae,^[4] but this placement was questioned due to differences in wood anatomy and fruit, seed, seedling, floral, and vegetative characters.^[5][6][7][8] Recent molecular phylogenetic evidence has shown that they belong to a unique evolutionary lineage.^{[1][2][9][10][11][12]} It is predicted to have diverged from the other legume lineages in the late Eocene).^[13]

Andira clade
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Fabales
Family:	Fabaceae
Subfamily:	Faboideae
Clade:	Meso-Papilionoideae
Clade:	Andira clade Cardoso et al. 2012[1][2]
Genera
Andira Lam. Hymenolobium Benth. Aldina Endl.[3]

Description

The name of this clade is informal and is not assumed to have any particular taxonomic rank like the names authorized by the ICBN or the ICPN.^[14] The clade does not currently have a node-based definition, but several morphological synapomorphies have been identified: "mostly fascicled leaves and densely flowered paniculate inflorescences at distal branch ends, [...] truly papilionate flowers involving petal differentiation and stamen connation", and "divergent fruit morphologies" (drupaceous in Andira and laterally compressed samaras in Hymenolobium).^[1][2][7][8]