Listia (plant)

Listia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Tribe: Crotalarieae
Genus: Listia
E. Mey., 1836[1]
Type species
Listia heterophylla
E. Mey., 1836[1]
Species[1][2]

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Synonyms
  • Lotononis sect. Listia (E. Mey.) B.-E. van Wyk, 1991

Listia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae and the tribe Crotalarieae. Members of this genus are mainly found in southern Africa but some species can be found in central Africa. It was recently segregated from the genus Lotononis.[1] Unlike other members of the Crotalarieae, members of the genus Listia have lupinoid root nodules.[1]

The genus name of Listia is in honour of Friedrich Ludwig List (1779-1837), who was a German botanist and teacher.[3]

The genus was circumscribed by Ernst Heinrich Friedrich Meyer in Comm. Pl. Afr. Austr. (Meyer) page 80 in 1835.

Species

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As accepted by Kew:[4]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e Boatwright JS, Wink M, van Wyk BE (2011). "The generic concept of Lotononis (Crotalarieae, Fabaceae): Reinstatement of the genera Euchlora, Leobordea and Listia and the new genus Ezoloba". Taxon. 60 (1): 161–77. doi:10.1002/tax.601014.
  2. ^ USDA; ARS; National Genetic Resources Program. "GRIN species records of Listia". Germplasm Resources Information Network—(GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Retrieved 11 March 2014.
  3. ^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
  4. ^ "Listia E.Mey. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 29 June 2022.