Coursetia

"Cracca" redirects here. For Cracca L. 1753, see Tephrosia. For Cracca Medik. 1787, see Vicia.

Coursetia
Coursetia glandulosa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Tribe: Robinieae
Genus: Coursetia
DC.[1]
Species

See text.

Synonyms[1]
  • Benthamantha Alef.
  • Callistylon Pittier
  • Chiovendaea Speg.
  • Cracca Benth. (nom. cons.)
  • Humboldtiella Harms
  • Neocracca Kuntze

Coursetia is a genus of flowering plant 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]

  1. ^ a b "Genus: Coursetia DC". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 5 March 1999. Archived from the original on 11 October 2012. Retrieved 22 March 2011.
  2. ^ "Coursetia". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 26 May 2010.
  3. ^ 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.