16; see text Newtonia is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae.

It includes 16 species of trees native to sub-Saharan Africa.

[1] It belongs to subfamily Caesalpinioideae[2] and the Mimosoid clade[2] or tribe.

The genus is known from the early Miocene (21.73 Ma) of Ethiopia based on compressions of its diagnostic, winged seeds.

[1][4][3] This article on a tree of the Fabaceae family is a stub.