Tournaya

Tournaya is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Fabaceae.[2] It just contains one species, Tournaya gossweileri (Baker f.) A.Schmitz

Tournaya
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Genus: Tournaya
A.Schmitz
Species:
T. gossweileri
Binomial name
Tournaya gossweileri
(Baker f.) A.Schmitz
Synonyms[1]
  • Bauhinia gossweileri Baker f.
  • Gigasiphon gossweileri (Baker f.) Torre & Hillc.

Its native range is western central Tropical Africa and is found in the countries of Angola, Congo, Gabon and Zaïre.[2]

The genus name of Tournaya is in honour of Roland Louis Jules Alfred Tournay (1925–1972), a Belgian botanist and publisher of the bulletin of the National Botanic Garden of Belgium (now the Meise Botanic Garden).[3] The Latin specific epithet of gossweileri is due to the Swiss-born Angolan botanist, John Gossweiler (1873-1952), who collected the type specimen of G. lanceolata. Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Bull. Jard. Bot. Natl. Belg. Vol.43 on page 397-398 in 1973.[2]

It was downgraded to a synonym of Gigasiphon in 2010,[4] but then re-established as a separate genus in 2020.[5]

References
  1. "Tournaya gossweileri (Baker f.) A.Schmitz". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 29 December 2021.
  2. "Tournaya A.Schmitz | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 29 December 2021.
  3. Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  4. Wunderlin RP (2010). "Reorganization of the Cercideae (Fabaceae: Caesalpinioideae)" (PDF). Phytoneuron. 48: 1–5.
  5. Jiang, Kai-Wen (2020). "New Combinations in the Genus Phanera (Fabaceae: Cercidoideae) of China". J. Jpn. Bot. 95 (4): 211–213.
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