Berlinia
Temporal range:
Flower of Berlinia confusa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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)
  • 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]

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]

  • Berlinia auriculata Benth. – Benin to Central African Republic and Republic of the Congo
  • Berlinia bracteosa Benth. – southern Nigeria to Chad and Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Berlinia bruneelii (De Wild.) Torre & Hillc. – Cameroon and Central African Republic to Democratic Republic of the Congo and Angola
  • Berlinia confusa Hoyle – Sierra Leone to Cameroon and Republic of the Congo
  • Berlinia congolensis (Baker f.) Keay – Nigeria to Democratic Republic of the Congo and Angola
  • Berlinia coriacea Keay – Nigeria to Central African Republic
  • Berlinia craibiana Baker f. – Nigeria to Central African Republic and northern Angola
  • Berlinia delevoyi De Wild. – Democratic Republic of the Congo and northeastern Angola
  • Berlinia giorgii De Wild. – Nigeria and Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, and Zambia
  • Berlinia grandiflora (Vahl) Hutch. & Dalziel – Guinea to Niger, Central African Republic, and Angola
  • Berlinia hollandii Hutch. & Dalziel – southern Nigeria and Cameroon
  • Berlinia immaculata Mackinder & Wieringa – Cameroon and Gabon
  • Berlinia korupensis Mackinder & Burgt – western Cameroon
  • Berlinia occidentalis Keay – Sierra Leone to Ghana
  • Berlinia orientalis Brenan – Tanzania and Mozambique
  • Berlinia phenacoa Mackinder – Republic of the Congo and Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Berlinia rabiensis Mackinder – Gabon
  • Berlinia razzifera Mackinder & Wieringa – Gabon
  • Berlinia sapinii De Wild. – Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Berlinia tomentella Keay – Sierra Leone to Ghana and Cameroon
  • Berlinia viridicans Baker f. – Gabon, Republic of the Congo, and Democratic Republic of the Congo

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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