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Humularia

Humularia is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It includes 34 species native to sub-Saharan Africa, ranging from South Sudan to Cameroon, Angola, Malawi, and Tanzania. Species include herbs with woody bases and occasionally small shrubs. Typical habitats include seasonally-dry tropical woodland, wooded grassland, scrub, and grassland, often along stream banks, swamp margins, floodplains, and sandy areas, and sometimes in montane areas. The genus belongs to the subfamily Faboideae, and was recently assigned to the informal monophyletic Dalbergia clade of the Dalbergieae.

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Humularia
Humularia bifoliolata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Embryophytes
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Spermatophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Tribe: Dalbergieae
Genus: Humularia
P.A.Duvign. (1954)
Species1

34; see text

Humularia is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It includes 34 species native to sub-Saharan Africa, ranging from South Sudan to Cameroon, Angola, Malawi, and Tanzania. Species include herbs with woody bases and occasionally small shrubs. Typical habitats include seasonally-dry tropical woodland, wooded grassland, scrub, and grassland, often along stream banks, swamp margins, floodplains, and sandy areas, and sometimes in montane areas.1 The genus belongs to the subfamily Faboideae, and was recently assigned to the informal monophyletic Dalbergia clade of the Dalbergieae.23

Species

Humularia comprises the following species:145

  • Humularia affinis (De Wild.) P.A.Duvign.
  • Humularia anceps P.A.Duvign.
  • Humularia apiculata (De Wild.) P.A.Duvign.
  • Humularia bequaertii (De Wild.) P.A.Duvign.
  • Humularia bianoensis P.A.Duvign.
  • Humularia bifoliolata (Micheli) P.A.Duvign.
  • Humularia callensii P.A.Duvign.
  • Humularia chevalieri (De Wild.) P.A.Duvign.
  • Humularia ciliato-denticulata (De Wild.) P.A.Duvign.
  • Humularia corbisieri (De Wild.) P.A.Duvign.
  • Humularia descampsii (De Wild. & T.Durand) P.A.Duvign.
  • Humularia drepanocephala (Baker) P.A.Duvign.
  • Humularia duvigneaudii Symoens
  • Humularia elegantula P.A.Duvign.
  • Humularia elisabethvilleana (De Wild.) P.A.Duvign.
  • Humularia kapiriensis (De Wild.) P.A.Duvign.
  • Humularia kassneri (De Wild.) P.A.Duvign.
  • Humularia katangensis (De Wild.) P.A.Duvign.
  • Humularia ledermannii (De Wild.) P.A.Duvign.
  • Humularia magnistipulata Torre
  • Humularia mendoncae (Baker) P.A.Duvign.
  • Humularia meyeri-johannis (Harms & De Wild.) P.A.Duvign.
  • Humularia minima (Hutch.) P.A.Duvign.
  • Humularia multifoliolata Verdc.
  • Humularia pseudaeschynomene Verdc.
  • Humularia reekmansii Bamps
  • Humularia renieri (De Wild.) P.A.Duvign.
  • Humularia rosea (De Wild.) P.A.Duvign.
  • Humularia submarginalis Verdc.
  • Humularia sudanica P.A.Duvign.
  • Humularia tenuis P.A.Duvign.
  • Humularia upembae P.A.Duvign.
  • Humularia welwitschii (Taub.) P.A.Duvign.
  • Humularia wittei P.A.Duvign.
References

References

  1. Humularia P.A.Duvign. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 1 September 2023.
  2. Lavin M, Pennington RT, Klitgaard BB, Sprent JI, de Lima HC, Gasson PE (2001). "The dalbergioid legumes (Fabaceae): delimitation of a pantropical monophyletic clade". Am J Bot. 88 (3): 503–33. doi:10.2307/2657116. JSTOR 2657116. PMID 11250829.
  3. Cardoso D, Pennington RT, de Queiroz LP, Boatwright JS, Van Wyk BE, Wojciechowskie 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.
  4. "ILDIS LegumeWeb entry for Humularia". International Legume Database & Information Service. Cardiff School of Computer Science & Informatics. Retrieved 7 February 2014.
  5. USDA; ARS; National Genetic Resources Program. "GRIN species records of Humularia". Germplasm Resources Information Network—(GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 7 February 2014.

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