Inocarpus Explained

Inocarpus is a small genus of flowering plants belonging to the subfamily Faboideae of the legume family, Fabaceae, and was recently assigned to the informal monophyletic Pterocarpus clade within the Dalbergieae.

Species

Inocarpus comprises four species distributed in Malesia and the South Pacific.^{[1] [2] [3]}

• Inocarpus ademanus – eastern New Guinea

• Inocarpus fagifer (Parkinson ex Zollinger) Fosberg — Tahitian chestnut – Malesia, Papuasia, and the South Pacific

• Inocarpus glabellus Adema – eastern New Guinea
• Inocarpus papuanus Kostermans – eastern New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago

Notes and References

1. Adema F. . 2007 . Notes on Malesian Fabaceae (Leguminosae–Papilionoideae) 13. The genus Inocarpus . . 52 . 2 . 401–407 . 10.3767/000651907X609133 .
2. Web site: ILDIS LegumeWeb entry for Inocarpus . . International Legume Database & Information Service . Cardiff School of Computer Science & Informatics . 10 February 2014 .
3. Web site: GRIN species records of Inocarpus . USDA . USDA . ARS . Agricultural Research Service . National Genetic Resources Program . Germplasm Resources Information Network—(GRIN) [Online Database] . National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland . 10 February 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150924122047/http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?6046 . 24 September 2015 . dead .