Brandzeia
| Brandzeia | |
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| Brandzeia filicifolia | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Tribe: | Detarieae |
| Genus: | Brandzeia Baill. (1869) |
| Species: | B. filicifolia
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| Binomial name | |
| Brandzeia filicifolia Baill. (1869)
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Brandzeia is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It belongs to the subfamily Detarioideae. It has only one species, Brandzeia filicifolia, a tree native to northern and western Madagascar.[2]
Brandzeia filicifolia is a large deciduous tree, growing to 20 to 25 meters tall. It grows in deciduous woodland, chiefly on limestone substrates including tsingy, and also on sand, basalt, and gneiss and in seasonally-inundated areas, from sea level up to 350 meters elevation.[1]
Wood from the trees is used non-commercially firewood and timber. The species' dry forest and woodland habitat is subject to habitat loss and fragmentation from forest clearance and over-exploitation of wood, and livestock grazing.[1]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c Ramanantsialonina, R.N. (2019). "Brandzeia filicifolia". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T19891793A104191198. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T19891793A104191198.en. Retrieved 14 August 2023.
- ^ a b Brandzeia filicifolia Baill. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 13 August 2023.
- ^ Brandzeia Baill. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 13 August 2023.
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