Berlinia

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Berlinia
Temporal range: Ypresian–Recent
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Flower of Berlinia confusa
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
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)
  • WestiaVahl (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]

Contents

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. [2]

Species

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

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Berlinia". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2021. Retrieved 13 August 2023.
  2. ↑ 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. doi:10.1073/pnas.2007324117. ISSN   0027-8424. PMC   7668113 . PMID   33097671.
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