Tournaya

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}} {{Speciesbox |image = |image_caption = |genus = Tournaya |parent_authority = A.Schmitz |species = gossweileri |authority = (Baker f.) A.Schmitz |synonyms_ref = <ref name=Species>{{cite POWO |id=521411-1 |title=''Tournaya gossweileri'' (Baker f.) A.Schmitz |access-date=29 December 2021}}</ref> |synonyms = {{species list |Bauhinia gossweileri |Baker f. |Gigasiphon gossweileri |(Baker f.) Torre & Hillc. }} }}

'''''Tournaya''''' is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Fabaceae.<ref name="POWO">{{cite web |title=''Tournaya'' A.Schmitz {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:23709-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=29 December 2021 |language=en}}</ref> It just contains one species, '''''Tournaya gossweileri''''' <small>(Baker f.) A.Schmitz</small>

Its native range is western central Tropical Africa and is found in the countries of Angola, Congo, Gabon and Zaïre.<ref name="POWO"/>

The genus name of ''Tournaya'' is in honour of Roland Louis Jules Alfred Tournay (1925–1972), a Belgian botanist and publisher of the bulletin of the National Botanic Garden of Belgium (now the Meise Botanic Garden).<ref>{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition |trans-title=Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2018 | isbn=978-3-946292-26-5 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2018 |format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2018 |access-date=1 January 2021}}</ref> The Latin specific epithet of ''gossweileri'' is due to the Swiss-born Angolan botanist, John Gossweiler (1873-1952), who collected the type specimen of ''G. lanceolata''. Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Bull. Jard. Bot. Natl. Belg. Vol.43 on page 397-398 in 1973.<ref name="POWO"/>

It was downgraded to a synonym of ''Gigasiphon'' in 2010,<ref>{{cite journal | title = Reorganization of the Cercideae (Fabaceae: Caesalpinioideae) | year = 2010 | author = Wunderlin RP | journal = Phytoneuron | volume = 48 | pages = 1–5 | url = http://www.phytoneuron.net/PhytoN-Cercideae.pdf }}</ref> but then re-established as a separate genus in 2020.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Jiang |first1=Kai-Wen |title=New Combinations in the Genus Phanera (Fabaceae: Cercidoideae) of China |journal=J. Jpn. Bot. |date=2020 |volume=95 |issue=4 |pages=211–213}}</ref>

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Category:Cercidoideae Category:Monotypic Fabaceae genera Category:Plants described in 1973 Category:Flora of Angola Category:Flora of West-Central Tropical Africa