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3528.000 Bauhinia
Description of the genus
Shrubs or small trees, sometimes scrambling or climbing. Tendrils 0, but branches sometimes coiling in a tendril-like manner. Leaves alternate, simple, conspicuously 2-lobed. Flowers usually large and showy, bisexual, in short racemes or solitary. Calyx spathaceous. Petals 5, free. Fertile stamens 1-10, sometimes accompanied by staminodes. Stigma capitate or small. Pods oblong-linear, woody, dehiscent. Seeds flat. Derivation of name: Named, because of the 2-lobed leaves, after 2 Swiss botanists, Jean and Caspar Bauhin. Worldwide: 300 species, pantropical. The larvae of the following species of insect eat species of this genus:
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Links to taxa: View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus
| Species | Links to maps | FZ divisions | Content |
| galpinii N.E.Br. | Altitude Rainfall Geology | N,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| petersiana Bolle subsp. macrantha (Oliv.) Brummitt & J.H. Ross | Altitude Rainfall Geology | N,W,C | Description, Image |
| petersiana Bolle subsp. petersiana | Altitude Rainfall Geology | N,W,C,E | Description, Image |
| tomentosa L. | Altitude Rainfall Geology | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| variegata L. var. candida Voigt | Altitude Rainfall Geology | C | Description, Image |
| variegata L. var. variegata | Altitude Rainfall Geology | C,E | Description, Image |
Other sources of information about Bauhinia:
Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Bauhinia pageFlora of Mozambique: Bauhinia
ePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): Bauhinia
Flora Zambesiaca web site: Bauhinia
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Bauhinia
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Bauhinia
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Bauhinia
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