Taxonomy
Clitoriopsis R. Wilczek Bull. Jard. Bot. État 24: 411. Dec 1954.
Subfamily: Faboideae.
Phylogenetic Number: 3.10.17.
Tribe: Phaseoleae.
Subtribe: Clitoriinae.
Species Studied - Species in Genus: 0 studied; 1 in genus.
Distribution
Zaire (Congo-Kinshasa) and Sudan.
Old World; Africa (Zaire and Sudan).
Generic Notes
No material was available for study.
Tribal Notes
Tribe Phaseoleae
Bruneau et al. (
1995) carried out cladistic analyses of tribe Phaseoleae using chloroplast DNA restriction site data. Their results indicated that the tribe is not monophyletic and that the tribal delimitations between Phaseoleae and Desmodieae (11) and between Phaseoleae and Millettieae (7) are problematic.