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Platysepalum is a genus of about 13 small African trees, shrubs and lianas in the pea family, mostly from West and West-Central African rainforests. They are rarely grown as garden or houseplants, so care advice is general and based on tropical forest understory conditions.
Platysepalum is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It includes 13 species of small trees, shrubs, or lianas native to tropical Africa, from Senegal to Tanzania and south to Angola and Mozambique. Most species are native to the Guineo-Congolian forests of west and west-central Africa, and one is native to the tropical Zanzibar-Inhambane coastal forests of Africa's eastern (Indian Ocean) coast. Habitats include tropical rain forest and seasonally-dry lowland forests, often in disturbed areas. It belongs to subfamily Faboideae.
Species in the genus include:
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