Biology:Berlinia

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Berlinia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It includes 21 species of trees native to sub-Saharan Africa, ranging from Guinea to Chad, Tanzania, Mozambique, and Angola.[1] All species of Berlinia have "explosive" pods,[2] casting the seeds, in the case of the recently discovered Berlinia korupensis, up to 50 metres (160 ft) away.[3]

Species of Berlina grow in the Guineo–Congolian forest of equatorial western and central Africa, and in the transitional forest–savanna mosaic belts north and south of the forest region.[1]

Fossil pollen attributable to the genus is known from the Eocene (Ypresian) of Africa.[4]

Ebiara veneer (Berlinia confusa)

Species

21 species accepted by the Plants of the World Online as of August 2023:[1]

  • Berlinia auriculata Benth. – Benin to Central African Republic and Republic of the Congo
  • Berlinia bracteosa Benth. – southern Nigeria to Chad and Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Berlinia bruneelii (De Wild.) Torre & Hillc. – Cameroon and Central African Republic to Democratic Republic of the Congo and Angola
  • Berlinia confusa Hoyle – Sierra Leone to Cameroon and Republic of the Congo
  • Berlinia congolensis (Baker f.) Keay – Nigeria to Democratic Republic of the Congo and Angola
  • Berlinia coriacea Keay – Nigeria to Central African Republic
  • Berlinia craibiana Baker f. – Nigeria to Central African Republic and northern Angola
  • Berlinia delevoyi De Wild. – Democratic Republic of the Congo and northeastern Angola
  • Berlinia giorgii De Wild. – Nigeria and Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, and Zambia
  • Berlinia grandiflora (Vahl) Hutch. & Dalziel – Guinea to Niger, Central African Republic, and Angola
  • Berlinia hollandii Hutch. & Dalziel – southern Nigeria and Cameroon
  • Berlinia immaculata Mackinder & Wieringa – Cameroon and Gabon
  • Berlinia korupensis Mackinder & Burgt – western Cameroon
  • Berlinia occidentalis Keay – Sierra Leone to Ghana
  • Berlinia orientalis Brenan – Tanzania and Mozambique
  • Berlinia phenacoa Mackinder – Republic of the Congo and Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Berlinia rabiensis Mackinder – Gabon
  • Berlinia razzifera Mackinder & Wieringa – Gabon
  • Berlinia sapinii De Wild. – Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Berlinia tomentella Keay – Sierra Leone to Ghana and Cameroon
  • Berlinia viridicans Baker f. – Gabon, Republic of the Congo, and Democratic Republic of the Congo

Wood

Berlinia species produce a valuable timber, commercially known as Ebiara, whose veneers are highly appreciated for their aesthetic appeal and are widely used in furniture production and interior decorative applications.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named powo
  2. ↑ Allen, O.N. and Ethel K. (1981). The Leguminosae - A Sourcebook of Characteristics, Uses and Nodulation. Madison, Wisconsin: Univ. Wisc. Press. p. 100. ISBN 0-299-08400-0. 
  3. ↑ "New to Nature No 11: Berlinia korupensis" The Observer 20 June 2010 Retrieved 20 June 2010
  4. ↑ Romero, Ingrid C.; Kong, Shu; Fowlkes, Charless C.; Jaramillo, Carlos; Urban, Michael A.; Oboh-Ikuenobe, Francisca; D’Apolito, Carlos; Punyasena, Surangi W. (2020-11-10). "Improving the taxonomy of fossil pollen using convolutional neural networks and superresolution microscopy" (in en). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117 (45): 28496–28505. doi:10.1073/pnas.2007324117. ISSN 0027-8424. PMID 33097671. Bibcode: 2020PNAS..11728496R. 

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