Sophora cassioides

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: Sophoreae
Genus: Sophora
Sectio: S. sect. Edwardsia
Species: Sophora cassioides
Name

Sophora cassioides (Phil.) Sparre, Acta Phytogeogr. Suec. 47: 20 (1963).
Synonyms

Homotypic
Edwardsia cassioides Phil., Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 31: 741 (1873), nom. superfl.

Note: See Sophora macnabiana
Distribution
Native distribution areas:
References
Primary references

Sparre, B. 1963. Acta Phytogeographica Suecica 47: 20.

Additional references

Heenan, P.B. 2001. The correct name for Chilean pelu (Fabaceae): The identity of Edwardsia macnabiana and the reinstatement of Sophora cassioides New Zealand Journal of Botany 39(1): 167–170. DOI: 10.1080/0028825X.2001.9512725 PDF. Reference page.
Rodriguez, R. & Marticorena, A. 2001. Nota sobre la nomenclatura del "pilo", Sophora cassioides (Fabaceae) de Chile. Chloris Chilensis 4(2). online

Links

Govaerts, R. et al. 2021. Sophora cassioides in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2021 Jun!03 {{{3}}}. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2021. Sophora cassioides. Published online. Accessed: Jun 03 2021.
Tropicos.org 2021. Sophora cassioides. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2021 Jun 03.
Hassler, M. 2021. Sophora cassioides. 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 on the internet. Accessed: 2021 Jun 03. Reference page.
Hassler, M. 2021. World Plants. Synonymic Checklist and Distribution of the World Flora. . Sophora cassioides. Accessed: 03 Jun 2021.
USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Sophora cassioides in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Accessed: 07-Oct-06.

Vernacular names
español: Pelú

Sophora cassioides is a legume tree native to Chile.[1]
Distribution

It is an endemic from South Chile and Gough Island.[2] In South America it is found between Constitución and Puyuhuapi. It prefers shady places in Myrtaceae stands, alongside Drimys, Caldcluvia, and other hygrophyllous species. Putative hybrids with Sophora macrocarpa have been described at Bullileo (Linares). It is also found in coastal areas associated with the Peumus boldus–Persea lingue alliance.[3]
Phylogeny

Sophora represents a polyphyletic assemblage. Series Tetrapterae (sensu Tsoong & Ma[4][5]), including Sophora cassioides and Sophora macrocarpa, forms a monophyletic group with Eurasian species like as Sophora flavescens Ait. and Asian Sophora alopecuroides L., suggesting a west or northwest Pacific origin.[6][7][8] The genus Sophora is estimated to have arrived in New Zealand 9.6–8.9 million years ago (in the Neogene).[6]
Notes and references

Heenan PB. (2001). "The correct name for Chilean pelú (Fabaceae): the identity of Edwardsia macnabiana and the reinstatement of Sophora cassioides" New Zealand J Bot. 39 (1): 167–170. doi:10.1080/0028825X.2001.9512725.
Wace NM. 1961. The Vegetation of Gough Island Ecological Monographs, 31: 337–367.
Smith-Ramírez C, Armesto JJ, Valdovinos C (2005). Historia, biodiversidad y ecología de los bosques costeros de Chile [History, biodiversity, and ecology of the coastal forests of Chile] (in Spanish). Santiago, Chile: Editorial Universitaria. p. 708. ISBN 9789561117778.
Tsoong P-C, Ma C-Y (1981). "A study on the genus Sophora Linn" (PDF). Acta Phytotaxon Sin. 19 (1): 1–22.
Tsoong P-C, Ma C-Y (1981). "A study on the genus Sophora Linn. (Cont.)" (PDF). Acta Phytotaxon Sin. 19 (2): 143–167.
Hurr KA, Lockhart PJ, Heenan PB, Penny D (1999). "Evidence for the recent dispersal of Sophora (Leguminosae) around the Southern Oceans: molecular data". J Biogeogr. 26 (3): 565–577. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2699.1999.00302.x. JSTOR 2656144.
Heenan PB, de Lange PJ, Wilton AD (2001). "Sophora (Fabaceae) in New Zealand: taxonomy, distribution, and biogeography" New Zealand J Bot. 39 (1): 17–53. doi:10.1080/0028825X.2001.9512715.
Michell AB, Heenan PB (2002). "Sophora sect. Edwardsia (Fabaceae): further evidence from nrDNA sequence data of a recent and rapid radiation around the Southern Oceans". Bot J Linn Soc. 140 (4): 435–441. doi:10.1046/j.1095-8339.2002.00101.x.