Coursetia

Coursetia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Tribe: Robinieae
Genus: Coursetia
DC.[1]
Species[2][3]

See text

Synonyms

Benthamantha Alef.
Callistylon Pittier
Chiovendaea Speg.
Cracca Benth.
Humboldtiella Harms
Neocracca Kuntze[1]

Coursetia is a large genus of flowering plants in the pea family, Fabaceae. Members of the genus, commonly known as babybonnets,[2] are shrubs and small trees native to the Southwestern United States, Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America, and South America as far south as Brazil and Peru. The genus is named for French botanist Georges Louis Marie Dumont de Courset (1746–1824).[4]

Selected species

  • Coursetia andina
  • Coursetia apantensis
  • Coursetia axillaris J.M.Coult. & Rose – Texas Babybonnets
  • Coursetia barrancana
  • Coursetia brachyrachis Harms
  • Coursetia cajamarcana
  • Coursetia caribaea (Jacq.) Lavin – Anil Falso
  • Coursetia chiapensis
  • Coursetia dubia (Kunth) DC.
  • Coursetia elliptica
  • Coursetia ferruginea (Kunth) Lavin
  • Coursetia fruticosa
  • Coursetia glabella (A.Gray) Lavin – Smooth Babybonnets
  • Coursetia glandulosa A.Gray – Rosary Babybonnets
  • Coursetia gracilis Lavin
  • Coursetia grandiflora
  • Coursetia guatemalensis
  • Coursetia hassleri
  • Coursetia hidalgoana
  • Coursetia hintonii
  • Coursetia insomniifolia
  • Coursetia intermontana
  • Coursetia madrensis
  • Coursetia maraniona
  • Coursetia mollis
  • Coursetia oaxacensis
  • Coursetia paniculata
  • Coursetia paucifoliolata
  • Coursetia planipetiolata
  • Coursetia polyphylla
  • Coursetia pumila
  • Coursetia robinioides
  • Coursetia rostrata
  • Coursetia tumbezensis
  • Coursetia vicioides

References

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  1. 1 2 "Genus: Coursetia DC.". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 1999-03-05. Retrieved 2011-03-22.
  2. 1 2 "Coursetia". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2010-05-26.
  3. ↑ ILDIS Version 6.05
  4. ↑ Allen, Oscar Nelson; Allen, Ethel Kullmann (1981). The Leguminosae, a Source Book of Characteristics, Uses, and Nodulation. University of Wisconsin Press. pp. 187–188. ISBN 978-0-299-08400-4.

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