Koompassia

Koompassia is a genus of legume in the family Fabaceae. It includes three species with range across southeast Asia, from Thailand to New Guinea. It belongs to the subfamily Dialioideae.^[2] They are tall tropical forest trees; K. excelsa is one of the tallest tree species in the tropics.

Koompassia
Koompassia excelsa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Fabales
Family:	Fabaceae
Subfamily:	Dialioideae
Genus:	Koompassia Maingay ex Benth. (1873)
Synonyms[1]
Abauria Becc. (1877)

Species

Plants of the World Online includes:^[1]

1. Koompassia excelsa (Becc.) Taub. – Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, and Philippines
2. Koompassia grandiflora Kosterm. – New Guinea
3. Koompassia malaccensis Maingay – Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, and Borneo

References

1. Koompassia Maingay ex Benth. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 1 August 2023.
2. The Legume Phylogeny Working Group (LPWG). (2017). "A new subfamily classification of the Leguminosae based on a taxonomically comprehensive phylogeny". Taxon. 66 (1): 44–77. doi:10.12705/661.3. hdl:10568/90658.

External links

• Media related to Koompassia at Wikimedia Commons