Berlinia

Berlinia
Temporal range: Ypresian–Recent
Flower of Berlinia confusa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Embryophytes
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Spermatophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Detarioideae
Tribe: Amherstieae
Genus: Berlinia
Sol. ex Hook.f. & Benth. (1849), nom. cons.
Species[1]

21; see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Macroberlinia (Harms) Hauman (1952)
  • Westia Vahl (1810), nom. rej.

Berlinia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It includes 21 species of trees native to sub-Saharan Africa, ranging from Guinea to Chad, Tanzania, Mozambique, and Angola.[1] All species of Berlinia have "explosive" pods,[2] casting the seeds, in the case of the recently discovered Berlinia korupensis, up to 50 metres away.[3]

Species of Berlina grow in the Guineo–Congolian forest of equatorial western and central Africa, and in the transitional forest–savanna mosaic belts north and south of the forest region.[1]

Fossil pollen attributable to the genus is known from the Eocene (Ypresian) of Africa.[4]

Species

21 species accepted by the Plants of the World Online as of August 2023:[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Berlinia". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2021. Retrieved 13 August 2023.
  2. ^ Allen, O.N. and Ethel K. (1981). The Leguminosae - A Sourcebook of Characteristics, Uses and Nodulation. Madison, Wisconsin: Univ. Wisc. Press. p. 100. ISBN 0-299-08400-0.
  3. ^ "New to Nature No 11: Berlinia korupensis" The Observer 20 June 2010 Retrieved 20 June 2010
  4. ^ Romero, Ingrid C.; Kong, Shu; Fowlkes, Charless C.; Jaramillo, Carlos; Urban, Michael A.; Oboh-Ikuenobe, Francisca; D’Apolito, Carlos; Punyasena, Surangi W. (2020-11-10). "Improving the taxonomy of fossil pollen using convolutional neural networks and superresolution microscopy". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117 (45): 28496–28505. Bibcode:2020PNAS..11728496R. doi:10.1073/pnas.2007324117. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 7668113. PMID 33097671.


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