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Caesalpinioideae is a botanical name
Botanical name

A botanical name is a formal scientific name conforming to the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature and, if the plant is a cultigen, the additional cultivar and/or Group epithets must conform to the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants....
 at the rank of subfamily, placed in the large family Fabaceae
Fabaceae

Fabaceae or Leguminosae is a large and economically important family of flowering plants, which is commonly known as the legume family, pea family, bean family or pulse family....
 or Leguminosae. Its name is formed from the generic name Caesalpinia
Caesalpinia

Caesalpinia is the name of a genus of controversial size , consisting of tropical and subtropical woody plants. It is named after the botanist Andrea Cesalpino....
.

The Caesalpinioideae are mainly trees distributed in the moist tropics
Tropics

The Tropics, seated in the equatorial regions of the world, are limited in latitude by the Tropic of Cancer in the northern hemisphere at approximately 23?26' N latitude, and the Tropic of Capricorn in the southern hemisphere at 23?26' S latitude....
. Their flowers are zygomorphic, but are very variable. Nodulation is rare in this subfamily, and where it does occur nodules have a primitive structure.

Because the Papilionoideae and Mimosoideae
Mimosoideae

Mimosoideae is a subfamily of the flowering plant family Fabaceae characterized by flowers with small petals and numerous prominent stamens. This subfamily is subdivided into five tribes: Acacieae, Ingeae, Mimoseae, Mimozygantheae, and Parkieae....
 arose from within the Caesalpinioideae, the Caesalpinioideae is paraphyletic.






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Caesalpinioideae is a botanical name
Botanical name

A botanical name is a formal scientific name conforming to the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature and, if the plant is a cultigen, the additional cultivar and/or Group epithets must conform to the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants....
 at the rank of subfamily, placed in the large family Fabaceae
Fabaceae

Fabaceae or Leguminosae is a large and economically important family of flowering plants, which is commonly known as the legume family, pea family, bean family or pulse family....
 or Leguminosae. Its name is formed from the generic name Caesalpinia
Caesalpinia

Caesalpinia is the name of a genus of controversial size , consisting of tropical and subtropical woody plants. It is named after the botanist Andrea Cesalpino....
.

The Caesalpinioideae are mainly trees distributed in the moist tropics
Tropics

The Tropics, seated in the equatorial regions of the world, are limited in latitude by the Tropic of Cancer in the northern hemisphere at approximately 23?26' N latitude, and the Tropic of Capricorn in the southern hemisphere at 23?26' S latitude....
. Their flowers are zygomorphic, but are very variable. Nodulation is rare in this subfamily, and where it does occur nodules have a primitive structure.

Because the Papilionoideae and Mimosoideae
Mimosoideae

Mimosoideae is a subfamily of the flowering plant family Fabaceae characterized by flowers with small petals and numerous prominent stamens. This subfamily is subdivided into five tribes: Acacieae, Ingeae, Mimoseae, Mimozygantheae, and Parkieae....
 arose from within the Caesalpinioideae, the Caesalpinioideae is paraphyletic. Therefore, it is likely to be split into several subfamilies, although it is not yet clear what those subfamilies should be.

In some classifications, for example the Cronquist system
Cronquist system

A list of systems of plant taxonomy, the Cronquist system is a scheme for the classification of flowering plants . This system was developed by Arthur Cronquist in his texts An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants and The Evolution and Classification of Flowering Plants ....
, the group is recognized at the rank of family, Caesalpiniaceae.

The genera may be classified in four tribes, Caesalpinieae, Cassieae, Cercideae and Detarieae. The tribe Cercideae has sometimes been included in the subfamily Faboideae
Faboideae

Faboideae is a subfamily of the flowering plant family Fabaceae or Leguminosae. An acceptable alternative name for the subfamily is Papilionoideae....
 (aka Papilionoideae) in the past.

Tribe Caesalpinieae


Tribe Cassieae


Tribe Cercideae

  • Adenolobus
  • Barklya
  • Baudouinia
  • Bauhinia
    Bauhinia

    Bauhinia is a genus of more than 200 species of flowering plants in the subfamily Caesalpinioideae of the large flowering plant family Fabaceae, with a pantropical distribution....
  • Cercis
    Cercis

    Cercis, or Redbuds, is a genus of about 6-10 species in the subfamily Caesalpinioideae of the pea family Fabaceae, native to warm-temperate regions....
  • Gigasiphon
    Gigasiphon

    Gigasiphon is a genus of legume in the Fabaceae family.It contains the following species:* Gigasiphon macrosiphon...
  • Griffonia
  • Lysiphyllum
  • Piliostigma
  • Tylosema
    Tylosema

    The genus Tylosema is in the plant family Fabaceae.There are four documented species within the genus Tylosema:*T. esculentum , Schreiber - Marama bean...


Tribe Detarieae
Detarieae

The tribe Detarieae is one of the subdivisions of the plant family Fabaceae . This tribe includes many tropical trees including some that are used for timber or that are ecologically important....

About 81 genera of predominantly African distribution. See main article
Detarieae

The tribe Detarieae is one of the subdivisions of the plant family Fabaceae . This tribe includes many tropical trees including some that are used for timber or that are ecologically important....
 for details.