Fabaceae

Copaifera L.

First published in Sp. Pl., ed. 2.: 557 (1762)
This genus is accepted
The native range of this genus is Tropical America, W. & Central Tropical Africa, Borneo.

Distribution

Native to:

Angola, Argentina Northeast, Bolivia, Borneo, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Cabinda, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Colombia, Congo, Costa Rica, DR Congo, Equatorial Guinea, French Guiana, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Sierra Leone, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Zambia

Introduced into:

Cuba, Dominican Republic, India, Sri Lanka

Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Accepted Species

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. MIM, Deurne.
  • de Paula-Souza, J., de Lima, A.G., Silva Costa, J.A. & de Queiroz, L.P. (2022). A step out of the chaos - A nomenclatural revision of New World Copaifera (Fabaceae, Detarieae). Annals from the Missouri Botanical Garden 107: 467-479. MBG press.

Flora of West Tropical Africa

  • Léonard in Bull. Jard. Bot. Brux. 19: 391–398 (1949).
  • Sp. Pl., ed. 2, 1: 557 (1762)

Flora Zambesiaca

  • Léonard in Bull. Jard. Bot. État 19: 391–398 (1949).
  • Sp. Pl., ed.2: 557 (1762).

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Sources

  • EBC Common Names

    • Common Names from Kew's Economic Botany Collection https://www.kew.org/science/collections-and-resources/collections/economic-botany-collection

  • Flora Zambesiaca

    • Flora Zambesiaca
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Legumes of the World Online

    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Neotropikey

    • Milliken, W., Klitgard, B. and Baracat, A. (2009 onwards), Neotropikey - Interactive key and information resources for flowering plants of the Neotropics.
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0