Baphiastrum Explained

Baphiastrum is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family (Fabaceae). It includes a single species, Baphiastrum brachycarpum, a liana native to west-central Africa.^[1] It grows in Guineo-Congolian forest in Cameroon, Gabon, Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic, and Democratic Republic of the Congo.

It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae. Baphiastrum was traditionally assigned to the tribe Sophoreae;^[2] however, recent molecular phylogenetic analyses reassigned Baphiastrum to the Baphieae tribe.^{[3] [4]}

Notes and References

1. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:21776-1 Baphiastrum Harms
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. 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 .
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 .