Coursetia

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Rosids
Cladus: Eurosids I
Ordo: Fabales

Familia: Fabaceae
Subfamilia: Faboideae
Tribus: Robinieae
Genus: Coursetia
Species: C. andina – C. apantensis – C. astragalina – C. axillaris – C. barrancana – C. brachyrhachis – C. caatingicola – C. cajamarcana – C. caribaea – C. chiapensis – C. diversifolia – C. dubia – C. elliptica – C. ferruginea – C. fruticosa – C. glabella – C. glandulosa – C. gracilis – C. grandiflora – C. greenmanii – C. guatemalensis – C. hassleri – C. hidalgoana – C. hintonii – C. insomniifolia – C. intermontana – C. madrensis – C. maraniona – C. mollis – C. oaxacensis – C. paniculata – C. paucifoliolata – C. planipetiolata – C. polyphylla – C. pumila – C. robinioides – C. rostrata – C. tumbezensis – C. vicioides

Source(s) of checklist:
Name

Coursetia DC. Ann. Sci. Nat. (Paris) 4(1): 92. (1825)

Type species: Coursetia fruticosa (Cav.) J.F. Macbr. Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot. Ser. 4(4): 88. (1925) Designated as synonym Coursetia tomentosa DC. Ann. Sci. Nat. (Paris) 4(1): 92. (1825)

Synonyms

Heterotypic
Balboa Liebm.
Benthamantha Alef. Bonplandia 10: 264. (1862)
Brittonamra Kuntze
Callistylon Pittier
Cracca Benth. Vidensk. Meddel. Dansk Naturhist. Foren. Kjøbenhavn 1853(1–2): 8. (1854)
Humboldtiella Harms Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 19: 12. (1923)
Neocracca Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 3(3): 68. (1898)

Note: Species list excludes those segregated as Poissonia Baill. Adansonia 9: 295. (1870) by Lavin (2003) and Pennington et al., (2011)
Distribution
Native distribution areas:

Continental: Tropical & Subtropical America
Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Arizona, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Texas, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Windward Is.

References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition
References
Primary references

Candolle, A.P. de 1825. Annales des Sciences Naturelles (Paris) 4(1): 92. BHL

Additional references

Lavin, M., Wojciechowski, M.F., Gasson, P., Hughes, C. & Wheeler, E. 2003. Phylogeny of robinioid legumes (Fabaceae) revisited: Coursetia and Gliricidia recircumscribed, and a biogeographical appraisal of the Caribbean endemics. Systematic Botany 28(2): 387–409. DOI: 10.1043/0363-6445-28.2.387 PDF Reference page.
Pennington, R.T., Daza, A., Reynel, C. & Lavin, M. 2011. Poissonia eriantha (Leguminosae) from Cuzco, Peru: an overlooked species underscores a pattern of narrow endemism common to seasonally dry neotropical vegetation. Systematic Botany 36(1): 59–68. DOI: 10.1600/036364411X553135 Full text PDF. Reference page.

Links

Govaerts, R. et al. 2021. Coursetia in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2021 May 29. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2021. Coursetia. Published online. Accessed: May 29 2021.
Tropicos.org 2021. Coursetia. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 29 May 2021.
Hassler, M. 2021. Coursetia. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2021. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2021 May 29. Reference page.
Hassler, M. 2021. World Plants. Synonymic Checklist and Distribution of the World Flora. . Coursetia. Accessed: 29 May 2021.

Vernacular names
English: Babybonnets

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).[4]
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 hidalgoana
Coursetia hintonii
Coursetia insomniifolia
Coursetia intermontana
Coursetia madrensis
Coursetia maraniona

Coursetia mollis
Coursetia oaxacensis
Coursetia paniculata
Coursetia paucifoliolata
Coursetia planipetiolata
Coursetia polyphylla
Coursetia pumila
Coursetia robinioides
Coursetia rostrata
Coursetia tumbezensis
Coursetia vicioides

References

"Genus: Coursetia DC". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 1999-03-05. Archived from the original on 2012-10-11. Retrieved 2011-03-22.
"Coursetia". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2010-05-26.
ILDIS Version 6.05 Archived 2014-05-17 at the Wayback Machine
Allen, Oscar Nelson; Allen, Ethel Kullmann (1981). The Leguminosae, a Source Book of Characteristics, Uses, and Nodulation. University of Wisconsin Press. pp. 187–188. ISBN 978-0-299-08400-4.