Pellegriniodendron [SEP] parent taxon
Gilbertiodendron
Gilbertiodendron is a genus of legume in the family Fabaceae. It consists of about 25 species of tree native to tropical Africa. Members of this genus were formerly considered to be in the genus "Macrolobium" but that genus is now restricted to species growing in tropical America. It is closely related to "Pellegriniodendron".
Species.
"Gilbertiodendron" includes the following species:
- "Gilbertiodendron bilineatum"
- "Gilbertiodendron brachystegioides"
- "Gilbertiodendron dewevrei"
- "Gilbertiodendron diphyllum"
Taxon in disguise
In bacteriology, a taxon in disguise is a species, genus or higher unit of biological classification whose evolutionary history reveals has evolved from another unit of similar or lower rank, making the parent unit paraphyletic. This happens when rapid evolution makes a new species appear radically different from the ancestral group, so that it is not (initially) recognised as belonging to the parent phylogenetic group, leaving the latter an evolutionary grade.
While the term is from bacteriology, parallel examples are found throughout the tree of