The genus Sophora and tribe Sophoreae to which it belongs have long been considered an unnatural assemblage in the Fabaceae. Tribe Sophoreae has been used as a group of convenience for species that are characterized by relatively simple flowers with free stamens and unspecialized pinnate leaves. In regard to taxonomic problems in Sophora , Salisbury (1808: 296) made the following comments: ‘There is no genus in the vast natural order of Leguminosae, which appears to me so great a disgrace to modern botanists, as Sophora . . . Sophora, as it stands in the last edition of Systema Vegetabilium , contains at least eight genera, very few if any of which will follow each other, in a natural series . . . It is well known that our great master Linne only regarded Sophora as a reservoir, into which he put every leguminous plant with distinct stamina, that he could not refer to any other established genus.
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https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8339.2004.00348.xPontuação Altmetric:
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Ano de publicação
2004
Autores
Heenan, P.B.; Dawson, M.I.; Wagstaff, S.J.
Idioma
English
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agroforestry, fabaceae, land management, plants, sophora, sophora japonica, sophora tomentosa
