Zygia
Zygia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It includes 60 species of tres and shrubs native to the tropical Americas, from Southern Mexico and Cuba to northern Argentina. Typical habitats are tropical forest and coastal zones, generally below 900 meters elevation with a few species extending up to 2800 meters. It belongs to the mimosoid clade of the subfamily Caesalpinioideae.
Species
56 species are accepted:- Zygia ampla
- Zygia andaquiensis
- Zygia bangii
- Zygia basijuga
- Zygia biflora
- Zygia bifoliola
- Zygia bisingula
- Zygia brenesii
- Zygia cataractae L.Rico
- Zygia cauliflora
- Zygia claviflora Barneby & J.W.Grimes
- Zygia coccinea
- * Zygia coccinea var. coccinea
- * Zygia coccinea var.macrophylla
- * Zygia coccinea var. oriunda
- Zygia codonocalyx
- Zygia cognata Britton & Rose
- Zygia collina Barneby & J.W.Grimes
- Zygia confusa
- Zygia conzattii
- Zygia cupirensis
- Zygia cuspidata
- Zygia dinizii D.A.Neill et al.
- Zygia dissitiflora
- Zygia engelsingii
- Zygia eperuetorum
- Zygia garcia-barrigae
- Zygia guinetii
- Zygia hernandezii
- Zygia heteroneura
- Zygia inaequalis Pittier
- Zygia juruana L.Rico
- Zygia lathetica
- Zygia latifolia Fawc. & Rendle
- Zygia lehmannii Britton & Rose ex Britton & Killip
- Zygia longifolia
- Zygia macbridei
- Zygia megistocarpa
- Zygia morongii
- Zygia multipunctata
- Zygia nubigena
- Zygia obolingoides
- Zygia ocumarensis
- Zygia odoratissima
- Zygia palustris
- Zygia paucijugata
- Zygia peckii
- Zygia picramnioides
- Zygia pithecolobioides Barneby & J.W.Grimes - Granadillo de Río
- Zygia potaroensis
- Zygia racemosa Barneby & J.W.Grimes
- Zygia rhytidocarpa
- Zygia rubiginosa
- Zygia selloi L.Rico
- Zygia steyermarkii Barneby & J.W.Grimes
- Zygia tetragona
- Zygia transamazonica
- Zygia trunciflora
- Zygia turneri
- Zygia unifoliolata
- ''Zygia vasquezii''
Formerly placed here
- Albizia adianthifolia W.Wight
- Albizia petersiana Oliv.
- Albizia zygia J. F. Macbr.
- Ebenopsis ebano Barneby & J.W.Grimes
- Havardia pallens Britton & Rose
- Ingopsis inundata
- Pithecellobium unguis-cati Benth.
- ''Pseudocojoba sabatieri''