Baphiopsis Explained

Baphiopsis parviflora is an African species of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae.^[1] It is the sole species in genus Baphiopsis. It is a shrub or tree which ranges from Cameroon to Tanzania and Angola.

It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae. It is the only member of the genus Baphiopsis.^{[2] [3] [4]} It was traditionally assigned to the tribe Swartzieae;^[5] however, recent molecular phylogenetic analyses reassigned Baphiopsis parviflora into the Baphieae tribe.^{[6] [7]}

Notes and References

1. Web site: Baphiopsis . Legumes of the World . . November 3, 2016.
2. Web site: ILDIS LegumeWeb entry for Baphiopsis . . International Legume Database & Information Service . Cardiff School of Computer Science & Informatics . 3 November 2016.
3. Web site: GRIN species records of Baphiopsis . 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.
4. Web site: The Plant List entry for Baphiopsis . 2013 . . . 3 November 2016.
5. Book: Cowan RS . 1981 . Swartzieae . Polhill RM, Raven PH . Advances in Legume Systematics, Part 1 . http://www.kewbooks.com/asps/ShowDetails.asp?id=318 . Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . 209–212 . 9780855212247 . 2016-11-03 . 2013-12-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131203004324/http://www.kewbooks.com/asps/ShowDetails.asp?id=318 . dead .
6. 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 .
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 .