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Newtonia
Newtonia is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It includes 16 species of trees native to sub-Saharan Africa. It belongs to subfamily Caesalpinioideae and the Mimosoid clade or tribe. The genus is known from the early Miocene (21.73 Ma) of Ethiopia based on compressions of its diagnostic, winged seeds.
16 extant species are accepted.
8 branches of this genus, most-observed first
lowveld newtonia
speciesNewtonia hildebrandtii
Forest Newtonia
speciesNewtonia buchananii
Newtonia duparquetiana
speciesNewtonia duparquetiana
Newtonia aubrevillei
speciesNewtonia aubrevillei
Newtonia griffoniana
speciesNewtonia griffoniana
Newtonia erlangeri
speciesNewtonia erlangeri
Newtonia camerunensis
speciesNewtonia camerunensis
Newtonia paucijuga
speciesNewtonia paucijuga
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 141530.