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Bauhinia flagelliflora

Overview

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Endangered
Threat status

Description

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Family Caesalpiniaceae

The Caesalpiniaceae are mostly tropical and subtropical trees and shrubs comprising about 150 genera and 2,200 species. The leaves are stipulate , alternate, and mostly pinnately compound but may be bipinnate or simple . Like the other legume families the petiole base is commonly enlarged into a pulvinus. The flowers are in racemes , spikes or cymes, are zygomorphic, and are mostly weakly to strongly perigynous. The perianth commonly consists of a calyx and corolla of 5 segments each; the petals are distinct , overlapping (i.e. , imbricate) in bud, with the posterior one (flag or banner ) innermost in position. The androecium usually consists of 1-10 distinct or variously united stamens, some of which are commonly reduced to nonfunctional staminodes. The pistil is simple, consisting of one style and stigma, and a superior ovary with one locule containing 2-many marginal ovules. The fruit is usually a legume. -- Gerald Carr

Subfamily Caesalpinioideae

Mostly trees or shrubs . Leaves mostly pinnate, sometimes bipinnate, rarely apparently simple . Corolla usually showy, zygomorphic, the petals imbricate, posterior (upper or banner ) petal innermost in bud. Stamens 10 or fewer, distinct , usually not showy, some commonly reduced to staminodes. Pollen released in monads . Seeds with u-shaped line (pleurogram) usually lacking. [Carr]

Genus Bauhinia

Trees , shrubs or climbers . Leaves alternate, simple , usually consisting of two lobes or almost bifoliolate with midrib between the two leaflets produced as a small spur. Flowers are showy, arranged in simple or panicled , terminal or axillary racemes . Hypanthium sometimes long and cylindrical, sometimes short and turbinate . Calyx entire or spathaceous , or cleft into two or five teeth. Petals 5, slightly unequal, narrowed at the base into a claw , variously coloured. Stamens 10, or reduced to 5 or there, filaments free or shortly connate , filiform , anthers versatile, Dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary seated on a stalk (gynophore ), ovules many, style long or short and usually curved , stigma capitate, fruit a linear pod, dehiscent or indehiscent.

A genus with c. 570 species, mostly distributed in tropics and warm temperate regions of both the hemispheres.[1]

Physical Description

Habit: Tree • Climbing: Not Climbing

Habitat

Ecology:
List of Habitats :1.9Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane

Biology

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Reproduction

Duration: Perennial

Taxonomy

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Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: Vaz A.M.S.F., May-2001

Similar Species

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Members of the genus Bauhinia

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 741 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

B. acuminata (Yellow Butterfly Tree) · B. abyssinica · B. accrescens · B. acida · B. acreana · B. aculeata (White Orchid Tree) · B. aculeata aculeata · B. aculeata grandiflora · B. aculeata subsp. grandiflora · B. acuminata (Dwarf White Orchid Tree) · B. acuruana · B. acuruana var. acuruana · B. acuruana var. nitida · B. adansoniana · B. aegopoda · B. affinis · B. aherniana · B. aherniana var. aherniana · B. aherniana var. subglabra · B. alata · B. alba · B. albicans · B. albiflora · B. altefissa · B. altiscandens · B. amambayensis · B. amblyophylla · B. americana · B. ampla · B. ampla var. ampla · B. ampla var. schlechteri · B. amplifolia · B. anamesa · B. anatomica · B. andersonii · B. andrieuxii · B. anguina · B. angulicaulis · B. angulosa · B. angulosa var. bahiana · B. angulosa var. densiflora · B. ankarafantsikae · B. anomala · B. antipolana · B. apertilobata · B. appendiculata · B. arborea · B. argentinensis · B. argentinensis var. argentinensis · B. argentinensis var. megasiphon · B. armata · B. aromatica · B. articulata · B. augusti · B. augustii · B. aurantiaca · B. aurea · B. aureifolia (Gold Leaf Bauhinia) · B. aureopunctata · B. aurita · B. bahiachalensis · B. bahiensis · B. baina · B. bartlettii (Orchid Tree) · B. bassacensis (Bauhinia) · B. bassacensis var. backeri · B. bassacensis var. bassacensis · B. bauhiniana · B. bauhinioides · B. baviensis · B. beguinotii · B. beguinotii var. beguinotii · B. beguinotii var. gorgonae · B. benzoin · B. bicolor · B. bicuspidata · B. bidentata (Orange Bauhinia) · B. bidentata bicornuta · B. bidentata subsp. bicornuta · B. bidentata var. bidentata · B. bidentata var. breviflora · B. bidentata var. cornifolia · B. bidentata var. fraseri · B. bidentata var. gracilipes · B. bidentata var. monticola · B. binata · B. blackeana · B. blakeana (Hong Kong Orchid Tree) · B. blancoi · B. bohniana · B. bombaciflora · B. bongardi · B. bowkeri · B. brachycalyx · B. brachycarpa · B. brachycarpa var. brachycarpa · B. brachycarpa var. cavaleriei · B. brachycarpa var. densiflora · B. brachycarpa var. microphylla · B. brachystachya

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Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 17, 2007:

Identifiers

Footnotes

  1. "Bauhinia". in Flora of Pakistan . Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
Last Revised: 7/2/2009