Bowringia

Bowringia is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family (Fabaceae), found in tropical Africa and southeastern Asia. It includes four species native to western and central Africa and Madagascar, and to Borneo, Indochina, and southern China.^[1]

Bowringia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Fabales
Family:	Fabaceae
Subfamily:	Faboideae
Tribe:	Baphieae
Genus:	Bowringia Champ. ex Benth. (1852)
Species[1]
Four; see text

Bowringia belongs to subfamily Faboideae. The genus was traditionally assigned to the tribe Sophoreae;^[2] however, recent molecular phylogenetic analyses reassigned Bowringia to the Baphieae tribe.^[3][4][5] It was named after Sir John Bowring and his son, J. C. Bowring for their botanical work in China.^[6]

Species

Bowringia comprises the following species:^[1][7][8]

• Bowringia callicarpa Champ. ex Benth. southeastern China, Hainan, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and Borneo
• Bowringia discolor J.Hall – Liberia to Ghana
• Bowringia libirica (Breteler) M.Yu.Gontsch. & Povydysh – Liberia
• Bowringia mildbraedii Harms – Ghana to Central African Republic and Angola, and eastern Madagascar.

References

1. Bowringia Champ. ex Benth. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 13 August 2023.
2. Polhill RM (1981). "Sophoreae". In Polhill RM, Raven PH (eds.). Advances in Legume Systematics, Part 1. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. pp. 213–230. ISBN 9780855212247. Archived from the original on 2013-12-03. Retrieved 2016-11-03.
3. Cardoso D, São-Mateus WMB, da Cruz DT, Zartman CE, Komura DL, Kite G, Prenner G, Wieringa JJ, Clark A, Lewis G, Pennington RT, de Queiroz LP (2015). "Filling in the gaps of the papilionoid legume phylogeny: The enigmatic Amazonian genus Petaladenium is a new branch of the early-diverging Amburaneae clade". Mol Phylogenet Evol. 84: 112–124. Bibcode:2015MolPE..84..112C. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2014.12.015. PMID 25575702.
4. Cardoso D, Pennington RT, de Queiroz LP, Boatwright JS, Van Wyk B-E, Wojciechowski MF, Lavin M (2013). "Reconstructing the deep-branching relationships of the papilionoid legumes". S Afr J Bot. 89: 58–75. doi:10.1016/j.sajb.2013.05.001. hdl:10566/3193.
5. Cardoso D, de Queiroz LP, Pennington RT, de Lima HC, Fonty É, Wojciechowski MF, Lavin M (2012). "Revisiting the phylogeny of papilionoid legumes: New insights from comprehensively sampled early-branching lineages". Am J Bot. 99 (12): 1991–2013. doi:10.3732/ajb.1200380. PMID 23221500.
6. "Bowringia". Legumes of the World. Kew Royal Botanic Gardens. Archived from the original on November 4, 2016. Retrieved November 3, 2016.
7. "ILDIS LegumeWeb entry for Bowringia". International Legume Database & Information Service. Cardiff School of Computer Science & Informatics. Retrieved 3 November 2016.
8. USDA; ARS; National Genetic Resources Program. "GRIN species records of Bowringia". Germplasm Resources Information Network—(GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Retrieved 3 November 2016.