Parkia Explained

Parkia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It belongs to the mimosoid clade of the subfamily Caesalpinioideae.^[1] Several species are known as African locust bean.

In 1995, about 31 species were known.^[2] Four more species were outlined in 2009.^[3]

Parkia species are found throughout the tropics, with four species in Africa, about ten in Asia, and about 20 in the neotropics. The neotropical species were revised in 1986.^[4]

Species

, Plants of the World Online (POWO) recognised the following species:^[5]

• Parkia bahiae
• Parkia balslevii
• Parkia barnebyana
• Parkia bicolor – African locust-bean
• Parkia biglandulosa
• Parkia biglobosa
• Parkia cachimboensis
• Parkia decussata
• Parkia discolor
• Parkia filicina
• Parkia filicoidea
• Parkia gigantocarpa
• Parkia igneiflora
• Parkia insignis
• Parkia intermedia
• Parkia javanica
• Parkia korom
• Parkia leiophylla
• Parkia lutea
• Parkia madagascariensis
• Parkia multijuga
• Parkia nana
• Parkia nitida
• Parkia panurensis
• Parkia paraensis
• Parkia parrii
• Parkia parvifoliola
• Parkia paya
• Parkia pendula
• Parkia platycephala
• Parkia reticulata
• Parkia sherfeseei
• Parkia singularis
• Parkia speciosa – twisted cluster bean, stink bean
• Parkia sumatrana
• Parkia timoriana – tree bean
• Parkia truncata
• Parkia ulei
• Parkia velutina
• Parkia versteeghii

Notes and References

1. The Legume Phylogeny Working Group (LPWG). . 2017 . A new subfamily classification of the Leguminosae based on a taxonomically comprehensive phylogeny . . 66 . 1 . 44–77 . 10.12705/661.3. free . 10568/90658 . free .
2. Melissa Luckow and Helen C.F. Hopkins. 1995. "A cladistic analysis of Parkia". American Journal of Botany 82(10):1300-1320.
3. David A. Neill. 2009. "Parkia nana (Leguminosae, Mimosoideae), a New Species from the Sub-Andean Sandstone Cordilleras of Peru". Novon 19(2):204-208.
4. Helen C.F. Hopkins and Marlene Freitas Da Silva. 1986. "Parkia (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae) (Flora Neotropica Monograph No. 43) with Dimorphandra (Caesalpiniaceae) (FN Monograph No. 44)". In: Flora Neotropica (series). The New York Botanical Garden Press.
5. Web site: Parkia . . . 27 March 2020.