Zenkerella (plant) explained

Zenkerella is a genus of plants in the family Fabaceae. It includes six species of evergreen trees native to tropical Africa. One species (Zenkerella citrina) is native to Nigeria, Cameroon, and Gabon in west-central tropical Africa, where it grows in lowland, riverine, or swamp Guineo-Congolian forest. The other five species grow in Afromontane or coastal Zanzibar–Inhambane forest in Tanzania.^[1]

It contains the following species:^[1]

• Zenkerella capparidacea ^[2]
• Zenkerella citrina
• Zenkerella egregia
• Zenkerella grotei ^[3]
• Zenkerella perplexa
• Zenkerella schliebenii ^[4] (also called Cynometra schliebenii)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Zenkerella Taub. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science . 23 September 2023.
2. Web site: Zenkerella capparidacea in Global Plants .
3. Web site: ZENKERELLA egregia J. Léon. [family LEGUMINOSAE-CAESALPINIOIDEAE] .
4. Web site: Cynometra schliebenii in Global Plants .