Rafael Barbosa Pinto

TL;DR: The classification of the legume family proposed here addresses the long-known non-monophyly of the traditionally recognised subfamily Caesalpinioideae, by recognising six robustly supported monophyletic subfamilies and reflects the phylogenetic structure that is consistently resolved.

TL;DR: The taxonomy of the genus in extra-Amazonian Brazil is discussed and descriptions of five new species are presented, all of which are narrowly distributed in eastern Brazil in threatened Atlantic wet forest and coastal scrub habitats.

TL;DR: Dipterygeae presents a noticeable diversity of fruit, seed and embryo, Taralea being the most distinct of all, and an evolutive path for the diaspores in the clade is suggested, based on phylogenetic studies which showTaralea as sister to theClade constituted by Dipteryx and Pterodon.

TL;DR: A new species of Hymenaea from the Caatinga of northeastern Brazil, H. cangaceira is morphologically similar to H. martiana and H. longifolia, and its geographical distribution overlaps those of both species; however, it differs in the combination of glabrous, ovate to broadly-elliptic leaflets, aglabrous ovary, and relatively short, cylindrical fruit.