Anthonotha
Anthonotha is a genus within the subfamily Detarioideae of the plant family Fabaceae. Taxonomic history. The first species of the genus was described in 1806 by Palisot de Beauvois based on a specimen collected in West Africa and named "Anthonotha macrophylla" The genus was not recognized and in 1865 Henri Baillon transferred it to the South American genus "Vouapa", described by Jean Baptiste Aublet in 1775. "Vouapa" later became a junior synonym since the conserved name of "Macrolobium" was favored for the genus described by Johann Schreber in 1789. Most species now recognized within "Anthonotha" were originally described within  the genus "Macrolobium". The species "Anthonotha macrophylla" continued under the illegitimate name "Macrolobium palisotii" described by Bentham in 1865. This was corrected by James Macbride in 1919 by publishing the correct name "M. macrophyllum" . In 1955 Léonard reinstalled "Anthonotha" for the rest of the African "Macrolobium" species, after several other species had been transferred to his newly described genera "Gilbertiodendron", "Paramacrolobium", and "Pellegrineodendron". Léonard subclassified the reinstalled "Anthonotha" with 26 species into five sections. "Anthonotha" section "Anthonotha" became the genus "Anthonotha" in a new, narrow sense. The species of the other four sections of "Anthonotha" were placed in the genera  Isomacrolobium and "Englerodendron" by Breteler. "Isomacrolobium" was later synonymized with "Englerodendron". Species. "Anthonotha" contains the following species: Phylogeny. The following relationships have been suggested for the genus "Anthonotha":