21; see text Berlinia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae.

It includes 21 species of trees native to sub-Saharan Africa, ranging from Guinea to Chad, Tanzania, Mozambique, and Angola.

[1] Species of Berlina grow in the Guineo–Congolian forest of equatorial western and central Africa, and in the transitional forest–savanna mosaic belts north and south of the forest region.

[1] Fossil pollen attributable to the genus is known from the Eocene (Ypresian) of Africa.

[2] 21 species accepted by the Plants of the World Online as of August 2023:[1] This Detarioideae-related article is a stub.