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Guilandina
Guilandina bonduc
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Fabales
Family:	Fabaceae
Subfamily:	Caesalpinioideae
Tribe:	Caesalpinieae
Genus:	Guilandina L. (1753)
Type species
Guilandina bonduc L. (1753)
Synonyms
Bonduc Adans. (1763) Caesalpinia subgen. Guilandina (L. 1753) Gillis & Proctor (1974)

Guilandina is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It belongs to the subfamily Caesalpinioideae and tribe Caesalpinieae.

The genus was named after Melchior Wieland (1515–1589), a Prussian naturalist who "Italianized" his name as "Guilandini" upon moving to Italy.

Species

The genus Guilandina comprises the following species:

• Guilandina barkeriana (Urb. & Ekman) Britton (Cuba and Haiti)
• Guilandina bonduc L. 1753 – grey nicker, knicker nut (pantropical)
• Guilandina caymanensis (Millsp.) Britton & Rose (Cayman Islands)
• Guilandina ciliata Bergius ex Wikstrom – broadpad nicker (Caribbean)
• Guilandina culebrae Britton & Wilson ex Britton & Rose – smooth yellow nicker (Puerto Rico)
• Guilandina delphinensis (Du Puy & R.Rabev.) G.P.Lewis (southeastern Madagascar)
• Guilandina glaucophylla (Urb.) Britton & Rose (Cuba, Swan Islands)
• Guilandina intermedia (Urb.) Britton & Rose (Cuba and Jamaica)
• Guilandina major (DC.) Small – yellow nicker (pantropical)
• Guilandina minax (Hance) G.P.Lewis (eastern Himalayas, Indochina, and southern China)
• Guilandina murifructa (Gillis & Proctor) G.P.Lewis (Bahamas)
• Guilandina portoricensis Britton & Wilson – brown nicker (Puerto Rico)
• Guilandina robusta (C.T.White) G.P.Lewis (Cook region of Queensland)
• Guilandina solomonensis (Hattink) G.P.Lewis (New Georgia in the Solomon Islands)
• Guilandina sphaerosperma (Urb. & Ekman) Britton (Hispaniola)
• Guilandina urophylla (Donn. Sm.) Britton & Rose (Costa Rica)
• Guilandina volkensii (Harms) G.P.Lewis (Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania)
• Guilandina wrightiana (Urb.) Britton & Rose (Cayman Islands, Cuba, and Jamaica)

• Leaves of Guilandina bonduc
• Fruits of G. bonduc

References

1. ^ "Guilandina L." Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanical Gardens Kew. Retrieved 1 September 2023.
2. The Legume Phylogeny Working Group (LPWG) (2017). "A new subfamily classification of the Leguminosae based on a taxonomically comprehensive phylogeny". Taxon. 66 (1): 44–77. doi:10.12705/661.3. hdl:10568/90658.
3. ^ Gagnon E, Bruneau A, Hughes CE, de Queiroz LP, Lewis GP (2016). "A new generic system for the pantropical Caesalpinia group (Leguminosae)". PhytoKeys (71): 1–160. doi:10.3897/phytokeys.71.9203. PMC 5558824. PMID 28814915.

External links

• [REDACTED] Media related to Guilandina at Wikimedia Commons

• Caesalpinieae
• Fabaceae genera
• Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus