Biology:Carrissoa

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Short description: Genus of legumes

Carrissoa
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Tribe: Phaseoleae
Subtribe: Cajaninae
Genus: Carrissoa
Baker f. (1933)
Species:
C. angolensis
Binomial name
Carrissoa angolensis
Baker f. (1933)

Carrissoa is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae. The genus has a single species, Carrissoa angolensis, a subshrub endemic to Angola.[1] It grows in seasonally-dry tropical open bushland and scrub and along watercourses, and forms woody rootstocks in fire-prone environments.[2]

The genus takes its name from Portuguese botanist Luís Wittnich Carrisso.

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