Airyantha Explained

Airyantha is a small genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae. It was named after the botanist Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw.^[1] It was traditionally assigned to the tribe Sophoreae;^[2] however, recent molecular phylogenetic analyses reassigned Airyantha into the Baphieae tribe.^{[3] [4] [5]}

The genus contains two accepted species:

• Airyantha borneensis (Oliv.) Brummitt – Borneo and Philippines
• Airyantha schweinfurthii (Taub.) Brummitt – western and west-central tropical Africa, from Côte d'Ivoire to Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Airyantha . Legumes of the World . . November 3, 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161104021500/http://www.kew.org/science-conservation/research-data/resources/legumes-of-the-world/genus/airyantha . 2016-11-04 . dead .
2. Book: Polhill RM . 1981 . Sophoreae . Polhill RM, Raven PH . Advances in Legume Systematics, Part 1 . http://www.kewbooks.com/asps/ShowDetails.asp?id=318 . Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . 213–230 . 9780855212247 . 2016-11-03 . 2013-12-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131203004324/http://www.kewbooks.com/asps/ShowDetails.asp?id=318 . dead .
3. Pennington RT, Lavin M, Ireland H, Klitgaard B, Preston J, ((Hu J-M)) . 2001 . Phylogenetic relationships of basal papilionoid legumes based upon sequences of the chloroplast trnL intron . . 55 . 5 . 818–836 . 10.1043/0363-6445-26.3.537 . 31 January 2024 . 3093980 .
4. Cardoso D, de Queiroz LP, Pennington RT, de Lima HC, Fonty É, Wojciechowski MF, Lavin M . 2012 . Revisiting the phylogeny of papilionoid legumes: new insights from comprehensively sampled early-branching lineages . . 99 . 12 . 1991–2013 . 10.3732/ajb.1200380 . 23221500 .
5. Cardoso D, Pennington RT, de Queiroz LP, Boatwright JS, ((Van Wyk B-E)), Wojciechowski MF, Lavin M . 2013 . Reconstructing the deep-branching relationships of the papilionoid legumes . . 89 . 58–75 . 10.1016/j.sajb.2013.05.001 .