Berlinia Explained

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.

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.

Fossil pollen attributable to the genus is known from the Eocene (Ypresian) of Africa.[1]

Species

21 species accepted by the Plants of the World Online as of August 2023:

Notes and References

  1. 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. en. 117. 45. 28496–28505. 10.1073/pnas.2007324117. free . 0027-8424. 7668113. 33097671. 2020PNAS..11728496R .