Coursetia

Coursetia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Rosids
Order:	Fabales
Family:	Fabaceae
Subfamily:	Faboideae
Tribe:	Robinieae
Genus:	Coursetia DC.[1]
Species
See text
Synonyms
Benthamantha Alef. Callistylon Pittier Chiovendaea Speg. Cracca Benth. Humboldtiella Harms Neocracca Kuntze[1]

Coursetia is a large genus of flowering plants in the pea family, Fabaceae. Members of the genus, commonly known as babybonnets,^[2] are shrubs and small trees native to the Southwestern United States, Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America, and South America as far south as Brazil and Peru. The genus is named for French botanist Georges Louis Marie Dumont de Courset (1746-1824).^[3]

Selected species

Coursetia andina Coursetia apantensis Coursetia axillaris J.M.Coult. & Rose – Texas Babybonnets Coursetia barrancana Coursetia brachyrachis Harms Coursetia cajamarcana Coursetia caribaea (Jacq.) Lavin – Anil Falso Coursetia chiapensis Coursetia dubia (Kunth) DC. Coursetia elliptica Coursetia ferruginea (Kunth) Lavin Coursetia fruticosa Coursetia glabella (A.Gray) Lavin – Smooth Babybonnets

Coursetia glandulosa A.Gray – Rosary Babybonnets Coursetia gracilis Lavin Coursetia grandiflora Coursetia guatemalensis Coursetia hassleri Coursetia heterantha Coursetia hidalgoana Coursetia hintonii Coursetia hypoleuca (Speg.) Lavin Coursetia insomniifolia Coursetia intermontana Coursetia madrensis Coursetia maraniona

Coursetia mollis Coursetia oaxacensis Coursetia orbicularis Coursetia paniculata Coursetia paucifoliolata Coursetia planipetiolata Coursetia polyphylla Coursetia pumila Coursetia robinioides Coursetia rostrata Coursetia tumbezensis Coursetia vicioides Coursetia weberbaueri [2][4]

Formerly placed here

• Lonchocarpus hermannii M.Sousa (as C. mexicana S.Watson)
• Sesbania virgata (Cav.) Pers. (as C. virgata (Cav.) DC.)^[5]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Genus: Coursetia DC.". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 1999-03-05. http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?3011. Retrieved 2011-03-22. 
2. ^ ^{a b} "Coursetia". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=26554. Retrieved 2010-05-26. 
3. ^ Allen, Oscar Nelson; Ethel Kullmann Allen (1981). The Leguminosae, a Source Book of Characteristics, Uses, and Nodulation. University of Wisconsin Press. pp. 187–188. ISBN 9780299084004. http://books.google.com/books?id=6gUXRNc6sDoC. 
4. ^ ILDIS Version 6.05
5. ^ "GRIN Species Records of Coursetia". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?3011. Retrieved 2011-03-22. 

External links

• USDA PLANTS Profile