The relationship of Sophora sect. Edwardsia (Fabaceae) to Sophora tomentosa, the type species of the genus Sophora, observed from DNA sequence data and morphological characters
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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Authors
Heenan, P.B.,Dawson, M.I.,Wagstaff, S.J.
Publication year
2022
