Calophaca Explained

Calophaca is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It includes nine species, which range from Ukraine through southern Russia and Central Asia to Xinjiang and Pakistan. It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae and is closely related to the genus Caragana.^[1] Nine species are accepted:

• Calophaca chinensis
• Calophaca grandiflora
• Calophaca pskemica
• Calophaca reticulata
• Calophaca sericea
• Calophaca soongorica
• Calophaca tianschanica
• Calophaca tomentosa
• Calophaca wolgarica

Caragana lidou, formerly known as Calophaca sinica, was economically profitable historically, but as an effect of overexploitation is becoming less profitable.^[2]

Notes and References

1. Zhang M, Fritsch PW, Cruz BC . 2009 . Phylogeny of Caragana (Fabaceae) based on DNA sequence data from rbcL, trnS–trnG, and ITS. . Mol Phylogenet Evol . 50 . 3 . 547–59 . 10.1016/j.ympev.2008.12.001 . 19100848. 2009MolPE..50..547Z .
2. Guo. Bin. Zheng. Zhi-Li. Gao. Kai. Ma. Jia-Lin. Wang. Jian-Yi. Yang. Fei. An. Xin-Min. 2020-01-02. Characterization of the complete chloroplast genome of Calophaca sinica Rehd.. Mitochondrial DNA Part B. 5. 1. 614–615. 10.1080/23802359.2019.1710608. 7748687. 33366671.