Piliostigma

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Piliostigma
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Piliostigma malabaricum
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Cercidoideae
Tribe: Bauhinieae
Genus: Piliostigma
Hochst. (1846), nom. cons.
Type species
Piliostigma reticulatum
(DC.) Hochst.
Species [1]

5; see text

Synonyms [1]
  • ElayunaRaf. (1838)
  • LocellariaWelw. (1859)
  • PileostigmaHochst. (1846), orth. var.

Piliostigma is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It includes five species of small deciduous trees native to sub-Saharan Africa, the Indian subcontinent, Indochina, Java, the Philippines, and northern Australia. [1] It belongs to the subfamily Cercidoideae [2] and the tribe Bauhinieae. [3] It is dioecious, with male and female flowers on separate plants. [4]

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Species

Piliostigma comprises the following species: [1] [5] [6]

Some other species often placed here are nowadays usually assigned their traditional genus Bauhinia again.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Piliostigma Hochst. Plants of the World Online . Retrieved 14 September 2023.
  2. ↑ The Legume Phylogeny Working Group (LPWG). (2017). "A new subfamily classification of the Leguminosae based on a taxonomically comprehensive phylogeny". Taxon . 66 (1): 44–77. doi: 10.12705/661.3 . hdl: 10568/90658 .
  3. ↑ Sinou C, Forest F, Lewis GP, Bruneau A (2009). "The genus Bauhinia s.l. (Leguminosae): A phylogeny based on the plastid trnL–trnF region". Botany . 87 (10): 947–960. doi:10.1139/B09-065.
  4. ↑ Sinou, Carole; Cardinal-Mcteague, Warren; Bruneau, Anne (2020). "Testing generic limits in Cercidoideae (Leguminosae): Insights from plastid and duplicated nuclear gene sequences". Taxon. 69: 67–86. doi:10.1002/tax.12207.
  5. ↑ "ILDIS LegumeWeb entry for Piliostigma". International Legume Database & Information Service. Cardiff School of Computer Science & Informatics. Archived from the original on June 10, 2014. Retrieved 8 May 2014.
  6. ↑ USDA; ARS; National Genetic Resources Program. "GRIN species records of Piliostigma". Germplasm Resources Information Network—(GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Retrieved 5 May 2014.
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