Sophoreae
Tribe of legumes
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The tribe Sophoreae is one of the subdivisions of the plant family Fabaceae. Traditionally this tribe has been used as a wastebasket taxon to accommodate genera of Faboideae which exhibit actinomorphic, rather than zygomorphic floral symmetry and/or incompletely differentiated petals and free stamens.[2][3][4] Various morphological[5][6][7][8] and molecular[9][10][11][12][13] analyses indicated that Sophoreae as traditionally circumscribed was polyphyletic.[14] This led to a re-circumscription of Sophoreae, which resulted in the transfer of many genera to other tribes (Amburaneae, Angylocalyceae, Baphieae, Camoensieae, the Cladrastis clade, Exostyleae, Leptolobieae, Ormosieae, Podalyrieae, and the Vataireoids).[2] This also necessitated the inclusion of two former tribes, Euchresteae and Thermopsideae, in the new definition of Sophoreae.[2][15][16][17][18] Tribe Sophoreae, as currently circumscribed, consistently forms a monophyletic clade in molecular phylogenetic analyses.[2][12][17][19][20][21][22] The Sophoreae arose 40.8 ± 2.4 million years ago (in the Eocene).[8][23]
| Sophoreae | |
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| Sophora tetraptera | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Subfamily: | Faboideae |
| Clade: | Meso-Papilionoideae |
| Clade: | Genistoids |
| Clade: | Core Genistoids |
| Tribe: | Sophoreae (Spreng. ex DC. 1825) Cardoso et al. 2013[1][2] |
| Genera | |
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| Synonyms[2] | |
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Description of morphological synapomorphies has yet to be undertaken, but members of this tribe can be distinguished by the relatively simple flowers, unspecialized pinnate leaves, accumulation of quinolizidine alkaloids,[24] and the presence of free stamens.[2] The tribe does have a node-based definition: the crown clade originating from the most recent common ancestor of Bolusanthus speciosus (Bolus) Harms and Sophora davidii (Franch.) Pavol..[23]
Genera
Sophoreae comprises the following genera:[2]
- Ammodendron Fisch. ex DC.
- Ammopiptanthus S. H. Cheng
- Ammothamnus Bunge[Note 1]
- Anagyris L.
- Baptisia Vent.
- Bolusanthus Harms
- Dicraeopetalum Harms
- Euchresta (Lesch.) Benn.
- Maackia Rupr.
- Neoharmsia R.Vig.[25]
- Piptanthus Sweet
- Platycelyphium Harms
- Salweenia Baker f.
- Sophora L.
- Thermopsis R.Br.
- Vuralia Uysal & Ertugrul[26]
