A Taxonomic Monograph of the Legume Genus Calliandra Bentham

9420283物种丰富的美洲热带地区的巴内比仍然很少有文献记载，即使是在农林间作中很重要的木本植物也是如此。纽约植物园的Rupert Barneby博士正在对Ingeae部落几个属的豆科树木进行基础分类学研究，包括含羞草的近亲Calliandra和Pithecellobium。通过对大量标本馆材料的研究和过去在南美洲选定地点的田野工作，他描述并归类了约200种原产于新热带地区的物种，归类于4个属。较旧的分类混淆了这些群体的美洲、非洲和亚洲代表的一般限制，从而阻碍了对迁徙历史的生物地理分析。Barneby的专题研究将为所有物种提供准确的描述，可靠的识别关键字，分类群地理分布的准确地图，以及类群之间的分类关系的综合。分类专著，也以阿尔法级别分类为特征，为主要生物谱系的物种资源提供了全面的文献资料。对于Calliandra和Pithecellobium复合体的木质豆科植物，Barneby的研究将完成对美洲热带豆科植物的主要部分的研究。?？

9420283 Barneby The species-rich American tropics remain poorly documented, and this obtains even for woody plants important in agroforestry. Dr. Rupert Barneby of the New York Botanical Garden is conducting fundamental taxonomic studies of the leguminous trees of several genera in the tribe Ingeae, including the mimosa relatives Calliandra and Pithecellobium. From study of extensive collections of herbarium material and past field work in selected sites in South America, he is describing and classifying ca. 200 species native to the Neotropics, placed in four genera. Older classifications have confused the generic limits of American, African, and Asiatic representatives of these groups, and thus prevented biogeographical analysis of migrational history. Barneby's monographic research will provide precise descriptions for all the species, reliable identification keys, accurate mapping of the geographical distributions of the taxa, and synthesis of the taxonomic relationships among the groups. Taxonomic monography, also characterized as alpha-level taxonomy, provides comprehensive documentation of the species resources for a major lineage of organisms. For the woody legumes of the Calliandra and Pithecellobium complex, Barneby's research will complete the study of a major portion of the American tropical Leguminosae. ??