Tournaya

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

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|genus = Tournaya

|parent_authority = A.Schmitz

|species = gossweileri

|authority = (Baker f.) A.Schmitz

|synonyms_ref = {{cite POWO |id=521411-1 |title=Tournaya gossweileri (Baker f.) A.Schmitz |access-date=29 December 2021}}

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|Bauhinia gossweileri |Baker f.

|Gigasiphon gossweileri |(Baker f.) Torre & Hillc. }}

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Tournaya is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Fabaceae.{{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}} It just contains one species, Tournaya gossweileri (Baker f.) A.Schmitz

Its native range is western central Tropical Africa and is found in the countries of Angola, Congo, Gabon and Zaïre.

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).{{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}} 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.

It was downgraded to a synonym of Gigasiphon in 2010,{{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 }} but then re-established as a separate genus in 2020.{{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}}