Macropsychanthus

Macropsychanthus is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It belongs to the tribe Diocleae, subfamily Faboideae.[3] The genus has 47 species with a pantropical distribution, ranging through the tropical Americas from southern Mexico to northeastern Argentina, west and central Africa, Madagascar, Indochina, Malesia, Papuasia, and Queensland.[2]

Macropsychanthus
Macropsychanthus edulis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Tribe: Diocleae
Genus: Macropsychanthus
Harms[1]
Species

See text.

Synonyms[2]

Luzonia Elmer (1907)

Taxonomy

Many species of Dioclea were transferred to the genus Macropsychanthus as a result of a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2020.[4]

Species

As of August 2021, Plants of the World Online accepted the following species:[1]

  • Macropsychanthus apiculatus (R.H.Maxwell) L.P.Queiroz & Snak
  • Macropsychanthus aureus (R.H.Maxwell) L.P.Queiroz & Snak
  • Macropsychanthus bicolor (Hoffmanns. ex Benth.) L.P.Queiroz & Snak
  • Macropsychanthus circinatus (R.H.Maxwell) L.P.Queiroz & Snak
  • Macropsychanthus comosus (G.Mey.) L.P.Queiroz & Snak
  • Macropsychanthus coriaceus (Benth.) L.P.Queiroz & Snak
  • Macropsychanthus dictyoneurus (Diels) L.P.Queiroz & Snak
  • Macropsychanthus dolichobotrys Holthuis
  • Macropsychanthus duckei L.P.Queiroz & Snak
  • Macropsychanthus edulis (Kuhlm.) L.P.Queiroz & Snak
  • Macropsychanthus erectus (Hoehne) L.P.Queiroz & Snak
  • Macropsychanthus ferrugineus Merr.
  • Macropsychanthus flexuosus (Ducke) L.P.Queiroz & Snak
  • Macropsychanthus funalis (Poepp.) L.P.Queiroz & Snak
  • Macropsychanthus glabrus (Benth.) L.P.Queiroz & Snak
  • Macropsychanthus grandiflorus (Mart. ex Benth.) L.P.Queiroz & Snak
  • Macropsychanthus grandistipulus (L.P.Queiroz) L.P.Queiroz & Snak
  • Macropsychanthus haughtii (R.H.Maxwell) L.P.Queiroz & Snak
  • Macropsychanthus hexander (Ralph) L.P.Queiroz & Snak
  • Macropsychanthus hispidimarginatus (R.H.Maxwell) L.P.Queiroz & Snak
  • Macropsychanthus huberi (Ducke) L.P.Queiroz & Snak
  • Macropsychanthus jamesonii (R.H.Maxwell) L.P.Queiroz & Snak
  • Macropsychanthus javanicus (Benth.) L.P.Queiroz & Snak
  • Macropsychanthus latifolius (Benth.) L.P.Queiroz & Snak
  • Macropsychanthus lauterbachii Harms
  • Macropsychanthus macrocarpus (Huber) L.P.Queiroz & Snak
  • Macropsychanthus malacocarpus (Ducke) L.P.Queiroz & Snak
  • Macropsychanthus marginatus (Benth.) L.P.Queiroz & Snak
  • Macropsychanthus megacarpus (Rolfe) L.P.Queiroz & Snak
  • Macropsychanthus mindanaensis Merr.
  • Macropsychanthus mollicomus (Ducke) L.P.Queiroz & Snak
  • Macropsychanthus pulcher (Moldenke) L.P.Queiroz & Snak
  • Macropsychanthus purpureus (Elmer) L.P.Queiroz & Snak
  • Macropsychanthus rigidus (R.S.Cowan) L.P.Queiroz & Snak
  • Macropsychanthus ruddiae (R.H.Maxwell) L.P.Queiroz & Snak
  • Macropsychanthus rufescens (Benth.) L.P.Queiroz & Snak
  • Macropsychanthus scaber (Rich.) L.P.Queiroz & Snak
  • Macropsychanthus schimpffii (Diels) L.P.Queiroz & Snak
  • Macropsychanthus schottii (Benth.) L.P.Queiroz & Snak
  • Macropsychanthus sclerocarpus (Ducke) L.P.Queiroz & Snak
  • Macropsychanthus ucayalinus (Harms) L.P.Queiroz & Snak
  • Macropsychanthus umbrinus (Elmer) L.P.Queiroz & Snak
  • Macropsychanthus violaceus (Mart. ex Benth.) L.P.Queiroz & Snak
  • Macropsychanthus wilsonii (Standl.) L.P.Queiroz & Snak

References
  1. "Macropsychanthus Harms", Plants of the World Online, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, retrieved 2021-08-28
  2. Macropsychanthus Harms. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 17 August 2023.
  3. de Queiroz LP, Pastore JF, Cardoso D, Snak C, de C Lima AL, Gagnon E, Vatanparast M, Holland AE, Egan AN (2015). "A multilocus phylogenetic analysis reveals the monophyly of a recircumscribed papilionoid legume tribe Diocleae with well-supported generic relationships". Mol Phylogenet Evol. 90: 1–19. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2015.04.016. PMID 25934529.
  4. de Queiroz, Luciano Paganucci & Snak, Cristiane (2020). "Revisiting the taxonomy of Dioclea and related genera (Leguminosae, Papilionoideae), with new generic circumscriptions". PhytoKeys (164): 67–114. doi:10.3897/phytokeys.164.55441. PMC 8359005. PMID 34531697.
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