Berlinia

	Berlinia
	; Berlinia grandiflora
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryotes
Kingdom:	Plants
The kingdom :	Green plants
Department:	Flower
Class:	Dicotyledons
Over Order :	Rosanae
Order:	Bob flowers
Family:	Legumes
Subfamily :	Caesalpinia
Tribe :	Detarium
Rod:	Berlinia
International Scientific Name
	Berlinia Sol. ex Hook.f. & Benth. , 1849, nom. cons.
Typical view
	Berlinia acuminata Sol. ex Hook.f. & Benth., 1849 [= Berlinia grandiflora ( Vahl ) Hutch. & Dalziel , 1928 ]

Berlin ( Latin Berlinia ) is a genus of woody plants of the legume family ( Fabaceae ). Distributed in tropical regions of Africa.

Content

Title

The genus of plants is named by the Swedish naturalist Daniel Solander (1733–1782) in honor of another Swedish naturalist, a pupil of Solander and Carl Linnaeus , Anders Berlin (1746–1773), who traveled around Sierra Leone in 1771–1773.

Botanical description

Unbranched evergreen trees . Leaves are odoriferous, with stipules at the base. The leaflets are opposite, in 2–5 pairs, on short petioles, sometimes unequally, in some species with translucent specks.

Inflorescences are brushes or brushes of brushes. Bracts non-falling, developed, among 2. A cup of 5 almost equal sepals. The corolla is pyatilepestkovy, the upper one is most developed, the others are almost completely reduced, less often all developed. Stamens in 10, of which 9 are accrete at the base, 1 is free. Ovary with 2-8 ovules.

The bob is revealed on two woody shutters. Seeds are flattened, elliptical, narrowly ovoid or angular.

Area

African tropical genus. The greatest species diversity is observed in central and western Africa .

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Macroberlinia ( Harms ) Hauman , 1952
Westia Vahl, 1810, nom. rej.

Types

Berlinia auriculata Benth., 1865
Berlinia bracteosa Benth., 1865
Berlinia bruneelii ( De Wild. ) Torre & Hillc. 1955
Berlinia confusa Hoyle , 1934
Berlinia congolensis ( Baker f. ) Keay , 1954
Berlinia coriacea Keay, 1954
Berlinia craibiana Baker f., 1913
Berlinia giorgii De Wild., 1925
Berlinia grandiflora (Vahl) Hutch. & Dalziel, 1928
Berlinia lundensis Torre & Hillc., 1955
Berlinia occidentalis Keay, 1954
Berlinia orientalis Brenan , 1963
Berlinia sapinii De Wild., 1910
Berlinia tomentella Keay, 1954
Berlinia viridicans Baker f., 1928

Notes

↑ About the conditionality of specifying the class of dicotyledons as a higher taxon for the group of plants described in this article, see the section “APG Systems” of the article “Dicotyledons” .

Literature

Brenan, JPM Berlinia Hook.f. & Benth. // Flora of Tropical East Africa / eds .: Milne-Redhead, E. & Polhill, RM - 1967.

[1] About the conditionality of specifying the class of dicotyledons as a higher taxon for the group of plants described in this article, see the section “APG Systems” of the article “Dicotyledons” .