Chapmannia Explained

Chapmannia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It contains seven species with a scattered distribution – Mexico, Guatemala, Florida, and Venezuela in the Americas, and Somalia and Socotra in eastern Africa.^[1] The genus was recently assigned to the informal monophyletic Pterocarpus clade of the Dalbergieae.

Species

Chapmannia comprises the following species:^{[2] [3] [1]}

• Chapmannia floridana Torr. & A. Gray – Florida
• Chapmannia gracilis (Balf. f.) Thulin – north-central and northeastern Socotra
• Chapmannia prismatica (Sessé & Moc.) Thulin – eastern, central, and southwestern Mexico, Guatemala, and north-central Venezuela
• Chapmannia reghidensis Thulin – northern Socotra
• Chapmannia sericea Thulin – western and southwestern Socotra
• Chapmannia somalensis (Hillc. & J.B. Gillett) Thulin – central Somalia
• Chapmannia tinireana Thulin – north-central Somalia

Notes and References

1. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:21988-1 Chapmannia Torr. & A.Gray
2. Web site: ILDIS LegumeWeb entry for Chapmannia . . International Legume Database & Information Service . Cardiff School of Computer Science & Informatics . 10 February 2014 .
3. Web site: GRIN species records of Chapmannia . 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/20150924114918/http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?2407 . 24 September 2015 . dead .