Griffonia

Short description: Genus of legumes

Griffonia

Griffonia simplicifolia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Plantae
Clade:  | Tracheophytes
Clade:  | Angiosperms
Clade:  | Eudicots
Clade:  | Rosids
Order:  | Fabales
Family:  | Fabaceae
Subfamily:  | Cercidoideae
Genus:  | Griffonia
Baill. (1865)[1]
Type species
Griffonia physocarpa

Baill.

Species

4; see text

Synonyms[2]

Bandeiraea Welw. ex Benth. & Hook. (1865)

Griffonia is a genus of central African flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It belongs to the subfamily Cercidoideae. Griffonia is known to have a high concentration of 5-HTP in its seeds.[citation needed]

The genus includes four species of scandent shrubs and lianas native to west and west-central tropical Africa, ranging from Liberia to DR Congo and Angola. They grow in humid tropical forests, swamp forests, and thickets in coastal wooded grassland.[3]

G. physocarpa, G. speciosa, and G. tessmannii are native to west-central Africa, with G. physocarpa having the widest distribution. G. simplicifolia ranges from Gabon to Liberia.[3]

## Taxonomy

The genus Griffonia was named by Henri Baillon in honour of his friend and fellow physician Marie-Théophile Griffon du Bellay, explorer of Gabon, pioneer in the study of sleeping sickness and also of the African entheogen Iboga, source of the alkaloid ibogaine. [4]

## Species

Griffonia comprises the following species:[1][5][6][7][3]

* Griffonia physocarpa Baill.
* Griffonia simplicifolia (M.Vahl ex DC.) Baill.
* Griffonia speciosa (Welw. ex Benth.) Taub.
* Griffonia tessmannii (De Wild.) Compère

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 The genus Griffonia, as well as the type, G. physocarpa, were first described and published in Adansonia 6: 188. 1865. "Name - !Griffonia Baill.". Tropicos. Saint Louis, Missouri: Missouri Botanical Garden. http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40017508. Retrieved November 14, 2012.
2. ↑ Wunderlin RP (2010). "Reorganization of the Cercideae (Fabaceae: Caesalpinioideae)". Phytoneuron 48: 1–5. http://www.phytoneuron.net/PhytoN-Cercideae.pdf.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Griffonia Baill. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 31 August 2023.
4. ↑ http://ecole.nav.traditions.free.fr/officiers_griffon_theophile.htm Retrieved at 10.02 on 31/10/20.
5. ↑ "Name - !Griffonia Baill. subordinate taxa". Tropicos. Saint Louis, Missouri: Missouri Botanical Garden. http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40017508?tab=subordinatetaxa. Retrieved November 14, 2012.
6. ↑ "ILDIS LegumeWeb entry for Griffonia". Cardiff School of Computer Science & Informatics. http://www.ildis.org/LegumeWeb?version~10.01&genus~Griffonia&species~. Retrieved 8 May 2014.
7. ↑ USDA; ARS. "GRIN species records of Griffonia". National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?5166. Retrieved 5 May 2014.

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