ABSTRACT
Dalbergia was named in 1782, not by Linnaeus, but by his son. In his Supplementum Plantarum, an addendum to his father’s Species Plantarum, the younger Linnaeus created the name for an Old World species. In 1894, German botanist Paul Hermann Taubert (1862-1897) moved a species the elder Linnaeus had named to create Dalbergia ecastophyllum. Now there are 100 tropical trees and lianas in the genus, in both the Americas and the Old World (Mabberley 1997). Mostly, the genus is known for providing beautiful and useful wood, but there are other applications.
