Baphia Explained

Baphia is a small genus of legumes that bear simple leaves.[1] Baphia is from the Greek word βάπτω (báptō-, "to dip" or "to dye"), referring to a red dye that is extracted from the heartwood of tropical species.[1] [2] The genus is restricted to the African tropics. Baphia was traditionally assigned to the tribe Sophoreae;[3] however, recent molecular phylogenetic analyses reassigned Baphia to the tribe Baphieae.[4] [5] [6] [7]

Species

Baphia comprises the following species:[8] [9] [10] [11]

Section Alata M.O.Soladoye

Section Baphia Lodd.

Series Baphia Lodd.

Series Contiguinae M.O.Soladoye

Series Spathaceae M.O.Soladoye

Section Bracteolaria (Hochst.) Benth.

Section Longibracteolatae (Lester-Garland) M.O.Soladoye

Series Chrysophyllae M.O.Soladoye

Series Macranthae M.O.Soladoye

Series Striatae (Lester Garland) M.O.Soladoye

Section Macrobaphia Harms emend. M.O.Soladoye

Incertae sedis

Species names with uncertain taxonomic status

The status of the following species is unresolved:

In 2023, a new species, Baphia arenicola was discovered growing in the deep sandy highland region of central Angola, part of the Kalahari sands, and was formally described to science. The floral characters most morphologically similar to Baphia massaiensis but with certain characters also comparable to Baphia bequaertii, with all three species found growing in the same region. Preliminary molecular analysis places the new taxon close to Baphia bequaertii. Whilst most Baphia form above ground shrubs and trees, Baphia arenicola grows as a geoxylic suffrutex (often described as "underground trees") with most of its woody tissue growing buried deep within the sand and its flowering parts just above ground level.[12] [13]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Pooley E. . Trees of Natal, Zululand and Transkei . 1997 . Natal Flora Publications Trust . Durban . 978-0-620-17697-2 . 160.
  2. Web site: Baphia . Legumes of the World . . November 3, 2016.
  3. 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 .
  4. 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 . free . 10566/3193 . free .
  5. 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 . 1 November 2024 .
  6. Wojciechowski MF, Lavin M, Sanderson MJ . 2004 . A phylogeny of legumes (Leguminosae) based on analysis of the plastid matK gene resolves many well-supported subclades within the family . . 91 . 11 . 1846–862 . 10.3732/ajb.91.11.1846 . 21652332 . free .
  7. 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 .
  8. Soladoye MO . 1985 . A revision of Baphia (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) . Kew Bulletin . 40 . 2 . 291–386 . 4108263 . 10.2307/4108263. 1985KewBu..40..291S .
  9. Web site: ILDIS LegumeWeb entry for Baphia . . International Legume Database & Information Service . Cardiff School of Computer Science & Informatics . 3 November 2016.
  10. Web site: GRIN species records of Baphia . USDA . USDA . ARS . Agricultural Research Service . National Genetic Resources Program . Germplasm Resources Information Network—(GRIN) [Online Database] . National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland . 3 November 2016.
  11. Web site: The Plant List entry for Baphia . 2013 . . . 3 November 2016.
  12. Goyder . David J. . Davies . Nina . Finckh . Manfred . Gomes . Amândio . Gonçalves . Francisco Maiato P. . Meller . Paulina . Paton . Alan J. . 2023-09-20 . New species of Asclepias (Apocynaceae), Baphia (Leguminosae), Cochlospermum (Bixaceae) and Endostemon (Lamiaceae) from the Kalahari sands of Angola and NW Zambia, with one new combination in Vangueria (Rubiaceae) . PhytoKeys . en . 232 . 145–166 . 10.3897/phytokeys.232.110110 . free . 37780180 . 10534249 . 1314-2003.
  13. Web site: Top 10 plant and fungal species named new to science in 2023 Kew . 2024-09-06 . www.kew.org . en.

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Baphia".

Except where otherwise indicated, Everything.Explained.Today is © Copyright 2009-2025, A B Cryer, All Rights Reserved. Cookie policy.