Coursetia
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Subfamily: | Faboideae |
| Tribe: | Robinieae |
| Genus: | Coursetia DC.[1] |
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Benthamantha Alef. |
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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]
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[edit] Formerly placed here
- Lonchocarpus hermannii M.Sousa (as C. mexicana S.Watson)
- Sesbania virgata (Cav.) Pers. (as C. virgata (Cav.) DC.)[5]
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- ^ 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.
- ^ a b "Coursetia". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=26554. Retrieved 2010-05-26.
- ^ 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.
- ^ ILDIS Version 6.05
- ^ "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.
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