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Ormosia
Ormosia is a genus of legumes (family Fabaceae), with 130 living species. They are mostly trees or large shrubs, and are native to the tropical Americas, from southwestern Mexico to Bolivia and southern Brazil, to southern, southeastern, and eastern Asia, and to New Guinea and Queensland. Most are tropical, while some extend into temperate regions of China. A few species are threatened by habitat destruction, while the Hainan ormosia (Ormosia howii) is probably extinct already.
Plants in this genus are commonly known as horse-eye beans or simply ormosias, and in Spanish by the somewhat ambiguous term "chocho". The scientific name Ormosia is a nomen conservandum, overruling Toulichiba which is formally rejected under the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants.
Ormosia amazonica · Ormosia coccinea · Ormosia cruenta · Ormosia excelsa · Ormosia gracilis · Ormosia grandistipulata · Ormosia henryi · Ormosia hosiei · Ormosia howii · Ormosia jamaicensis · Ormosia nobilis · Yellow bean
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