Chapmannia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It contains seven species with a scattered distribution – Mexico, Guatemala, Florida, and Venezuela in the Americas, and Somalia and Socotra in eastern Africa.[2] The genus was recently assigned to the informal monophyletic Pterocarpus clade of the Dalbergieae.[3][4]

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Chapmannia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Tribe: Dalbergieae
Genus: Chapmannia
Torr. & A.Gray
Type species
Chapmannia floridana
Torr. & A.Gray (1839)
Species

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Range of the genus Chapmannia. (The red arrow is pointing to the island of Socotra.)
Synonyms[1]
  • Arthrocarpum Balf.f. (1882)
  • Pachecoa Standl. & Steyerm. (1943)
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Species

Chapmannia comprises the following species:[1][5][6][2]

  • Chapmannia floridana Torr. & A. Gray – Florida
  • Chapmannia gracilis (Balf. f.) Thulin – north-central and northeastern Socotra
  • Chapmannia prismatica (Sessé & Moc.) Thulin – eastern, central, and southwestern Mexico, Guatemala, and north-central Venezuela
  • Chapmannia reghidensis Thulin – northern Socotra
  • Chapmannia sericea Thulin – western and southwestern Socotra
  • Chapmannia somalensis (Hillc. & J.B. Gillett) Thulin – central Somalia
  • Chapmannia tinireana Thulin – north-central Somalia

References

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