Samanea

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: Caesalpinioideae
Tribus: Mimoseae
Genus: Samanea
Species: S. inopinata – S. saman – S. tubulosa
Name

Samanea (Benth.) Merr., J. Washington Acad. Sci. 6: 46. (1916)

Type species: Samanea saman (Jacq.) Merr., J. Washington Acad. Sci. 6: 47. (1916)

Synonyms

Basionym
Pithecellobium sect. Samanea Benth., London J. Bot. 3: 197.

Distribution
Native distribution areas:

Continental: Southern America
Regional: Northern South America

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

Merrill, E.D. 1916. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 6(2): 46.

Links

Govaerts, R. et al. 2022. Samanea in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2022 Oct. 14. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2022. Samanea. Published online. Accessed: Oct. 14 2022. Reference page.
Tropicos.org 2022. Samanea. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 14 Oct. 2022. Reference page.

Vernacular names

Samanea is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It includes four species of trees native to the tropical Americas, ranging from Belize to Paraguay, and to the Democratic Republic of the Congo in central Africa. Habitats include tropical moist evergreen and seasonally-dry deciduous forest, woodland, and wooded grassland.[1] It belongs to the mimosoid clade of the subfamily Caesalpinioideae.[2] The type species is Samanea saman from South America.
Taxonomy

The name Samanea comes from saman in Spanish derived from zamang used for Samanea saman,[3] this giant S. saman tree was seen by Alexander von Humboldt near Maracay, Venezuela in 1799 when he travelled to the Americas from that year to 1804.[3][4]
Species

Plants of the World Online lists the following accepted species:[1]

Samanea guineensis (G.C.C.Gilbert & Boutique) Brenan & Brummitt
Samanea inopinata (Harms) Barneby & J.W.Grimes
Samanea saman (Jacq.) Merr.
Samanea tubulosa (Benth.) Barneby & J.W.Grimes

References

"Samanea (Benth.) Merr". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2023. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
The Legume Phylogeny Working Group (LPWG). (2017). "A new subfamily classification of the Leguminosae based on a taxonomically comprehensive phylogeny". Taxon. 66 (1): 44–77. doi:10.12705/661.3. hdl:10568/90658.
Allen, O. N.; Allen, Ethel K. (1981). The Leguminosae, a source book of characteristics, uses, and nodulation. Madison, Wisconsin, USA: University of Wisconsin Press. p. 590. ISBN 978-0-299-08400-4.
von Humboldt, Alexander; Bonpland, Aimé (1815). Reise in die Aequinoctial-Gegenden des neuen Continents. Vol. 3. Stuttgart and Tübingen, Germany: J.G. Cotta.