Berlinia
| Berlinia Temporal range:
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| Flower of Berlinia confusa | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Subfamily: | Detarioideae |
| Tribe: | Amherstieae |
| Genus: | Sol. ex Hook.f. & Benth. (1849), nom. cons. |
| Species[1] | |
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21; see text | |
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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]
- 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
- ^ a b c d e "Berlinia". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2021. Retrieved 13 August 2023.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "New to Nature No 11: Berlinia korupensis" The Observer 20 June 2010 Retrieved 20 June 2010
- ^ 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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