Camoensia (plant) explained

Camoensia is a genus of 2 species of lianas in the family Fabaceae, subfamily Faboideae, native to the Gulf of Guinea, Africa. C. scandens is cultivated as an ornamental plant; it has one of the largest leguminous flowers, up to 20 cm across.^[1] The genus has classically been assigned to the tribe Sophoreae,^[2] but was recently assigned to its own monophyletic tribe, Camoensieae, on the basis of molecular phylogenetic evidence.^{[3] [4]} Species of Camoensia are known to produce quinolizidine alkaloids, consistent with their placement in the genistoid clade.^[5]

Notes and References

1. Book: Mabberley DJ . David Mabberley . 1997 . The Plant-Book: A Portable Dictionary of Plants, their Classifications, and Uses . 2nd . Cambridge University Press, UK . 858 . 0-521-41421-0 . registration .
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 .
3. Book: Crisp MD, Gilmore S, Van Wyk BE . 2000 . Molecular phylogeny of the genistoid tribes of papilionoid legumes . Herendeen PS, Bruneau A . Advances in Legume Systematics, Part 9 . http://www.kewbooks.com/asps/ShowDetails.asp?id=52 . Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . 249–276 . 184246017X .
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 .
5. Waterman PG, Faulkner DF . 1982 . Quinolizidine/indolizidine alkaloids from the seed of Camoensia brevicalyx . . 21 . 215–218 . 10.1016/0031-9422(82)80046-0 .