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  1. Family: Fabaceae Lindl.
    1. Genus: Leucaena Benth.
      1. Species: Leucaena leucocephala (Lam.) de Wit

        1. Leucaena leucocephala subsp. ixtahuacana C.E.Hughes

        This subspecies is accepted, and its native range is Mexico (Chiapas) to Guatemala.

    [ILDIS]

    International Legume Database and Information Service

    Conservation
    Not Threatened
    Habit
    Perennial, Not climbing, Tree
    Vernacular
    Guash Criollo

    Distribution

    Native to:

    Guatemala, Mexico Southeast

    Leucaena leucocephala subsp. ixtahuacana C.E.Hughes appears in other Kew resources:

    First published in Contr. Univ. Michigan Herb. 21: 285 (1997)

    Literature

    International Legume Database and Information Service
    • Hughes, C. (1998). Syst. Bot. Monographs 55. Monograph of Leucaena
    • Hughes, C. E. (1998). Tropical Forestry Papers 37. Leucaena. Genetic Res. Handbook

    Sources

    International Legume Database and Information Service
    International Legume Database and Information Service (ILDIS) V10.39 Nov 2011
    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

    Kew Backbone Distributions
    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2019. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

    Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2019. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0