Coursetia

Coursetia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Rosids
Order:	Fabales
Family:	Fabaceae
Subfamily:	Faboideae
Tribe:	Robinieae
Genus:	Coursetia; DC.
Species
	See text
Synonyms
	Benthamantha Alef.; Callistylon Pittier; Chiovendaea Speg.; Cracca Benth. 1854 (nom. cons.); Humboldtiella Harms; Neocracca Kuntze;

Coursetia is a large genus of flowering plants in the pea family, Fabaceae. Members of the genus, commonly known as babybonnets,^[2] are shrubs and small trees native to the Southwestern United States, Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America, and South America as far south as Brazil and Peru. The genus is named for French botanist Georges Louis Marie Dumont de Courset (1746–1824).^[4]

Selected species[]

^ ^a ^b "Genus: Coursetia DC". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 1999-03-05. Archived from the original on 2012-10-11. Retrieved 2011-03-22.
^ ^a ^b "Coursetia". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2010-05-26.
^ ILDIS Version 6.05 Archived 2014-05-17 at the Wayback Machine
^ Allen, Oscar Nelson; Allen, Ethel Kullmann (1981). The Leguminosae, a Source Book of Characteristics, Uses, and Nodulation. University of Wisconsin Press. pp. 187–188. ISBN 978-0-299-08400-4.

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