Biology:Bauhinia
Bauhinia | |
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Bauhinia divaricata flowers | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Fabales |
Family: | Fabaceae |
Tribe: | Bauhinieae |
Genus: | Bauhinia L. (1753)[1] |
Type species | |
Bauhinia divaricata Plum. ex L. (1753)
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Species | |
192 (in 2023); see text[2] | |
Synonyms[1][2][3] | |
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Bauhinia (/boʊˈhɪniə/)[4] is a large genus of flowering plants in the subfamily Cercidoideae[5] and tribe Bauhinieae,[6] in the large flowering plant family Fabaceae, with a pantropical distribution. The genus was named after the Bauhin brothers Gaspard and Johann, Switzerland -France botanists.
Many species are widely planted in the tropics as orchid trees, particularly in India , Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Nepal and southeastern China . Other common names include mountain ebony and kachnar. Before the family was reorganised,[5] a number of genera including the lianas of genus Phanera were placed here (see related genera). In the United States , the trees grow in Hawaii, coastal California , Arizona, Texas , Louisiana, and Florida. There are native species, like Bauhinia lunarioides native to Texas and widely planted in the Southwest as a landscape plant.[7]
Parts of some species of bauhinia like B. purpurea and B. malabarica are used in Filipino cuisine (known collectively as alinbánban or alinbángbang,[8] "butterfly").[9]
Bauhinia × blakeana is the floral emblem of Hong Kong—a stylized orchid tree flower appears on the flag of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Airlines uses 'Bauhinia' as its radio callsign in air traffic communication.
Description
Bauhinia trees typically reach a height of 6–12 m and their branches spread 3–6 m outwards. The lobed leaves usually are 10–15 cm across.
The five-petaled flowers are 7.5–12.5 cm diameter, generally in shades of red, pink, purple, orange, or yellow, and are often fragrant. The tree begins flowering in late winter and often continues to flower into early summer. Depending on the species, Bauhinia flowers are usually in magenta, mauve, pink or white hues with crimson highlights.
Cultivation
Propagation of Bauhinia species is from seeds or cuttings. They thrive in alkaline soils and do not tolerate salty conditions. Full sun exposure is preferred but they can be grown under partial sun. Generous watering is needed during summer; moderate moisture required in winter.
Species
Accepted species
Plants of the World Online currently (March 2023) includes the following species:[2][10][11]
- Bauhinia acreana Harms
- Bauhinia aculeata L.
- Bauhinia acuminata L.
- Bauhinia acuruana Moric.
- Bauhinia affinis Vogel
- Bauhinia albicans Vogel
- Bauhinia amambayensis Fortunato
- Bauhinia amatlana Wunderlin
- Bauhinia andrade-limae A.C.B.Santos & Vaz
- Bauhinia andrieuxii Hemsl.
- Bauhinia ankarafantsikae Du Puy & R.Rabev.
- Bauhinia anomala Hassl.
- Bauhinia arborea Wunderlin
- Bauhinia argentinensis Burkart
- Bauhinia arleneae A.C.B.Santos & L.P.Queiroz
- Bauhinia augusti Harms
- Bauhinia aurantiaca Bojer
- Bauhinia aureopunctata Ducke
- Bauhinia ayabacensis Wunderlin
- Bauhinia bartlettii B.L.Turner
- Bauhinia bauhinioides (Mart.) J.F.Macbr.
- Bauhinia beguinotii Cufod.
- Bauhinia bicolor (Bong.) D.Dietr.
- Bauhinia bohniana H.Y.Chen
- Bauhinia bombaciflora Ducke
- Bauhinia bowkeri Harv.
- Bauhinia brachycalyx Ducke
- Bauhinia brachycarpa Wall. ex Benth.
- Bauhinia brevicalyx Du Puy & R.Rabev.
- Bauhinia brevipes Vogel
- Bauhinia bryoniflora Franch.
- Bauhinia burchellii Benth.
- Bauhinia burrowsii E.J.D.Schmidt
- Bauhinia buscalionii Mattei
- Bauhinia calliandroides Rusby
- Bauhinia caloneura Malme
- Bauhinia calycina Pierre ex Gagnep.
- Bauhinia campestris Malme
- Bauhinia candelabriformis R.S.Cowan
- Bauhinia capuronii Du Puy & R.Rabev.
- Bauhinia catingae Harms
- Bauhinia chapulhuacania Wunderlin
- Bauhinia cheilantha (Bong.) Steud.
- Bauhinia cinnamomea DC.
- Bauhinia coclensis R.Torres
- Bauhinia conceptionis Britton & Killip
- Bauhinia concinna Drake
- Bauhinia conwayi Rusby
- Bauhinia cookii Rose
- Bauhinia corifolia L.P.Queiroz
- Bauhinia corniculata Benth.
- Bauhinia coulteri J.F.Macbr.
- Bauhinia crocea Drake
- Bauhinia cupulata Benth.
- Bauhinia curvula Benth.
- Bauhinia darainensis Thulin & Nusb.
- Bauhinia decandra Du Puy & R.Rabev.
- Bauhinia decora L.Uribe
- Bauhinia deserti (Britton & Rose) Lundell
- Bauhinia dimorphophylla Hoehne
- Bauhinia dipetala Hemsl.
- Bauhinia diptera Blume ex Miq.
- Bauhinia divaricata L.
- Bauhinia dubia G.Don
- Bauhinia dumosa Benth.
- Bauhinia eilertsii Pulle
- Bauhinia ellenbeckii Harms
- Bauhinia erythrocalyx Wunderlin
- Bauhinia esmeraldasensis Wunderlin
- Bauhinia estrellensis Hassl.
- Bauhinia eucosma S.F.Blake
- Bauhinia euryantha H.Y.Chen
- Bauhinia exellii Torre & Hillc.
- Bauhinia eximia Miq.
- Bauhinia farec Desv.
- Bauhinia flagelliflora Wunderlin
- Bauhinia floribunda Desv.
- Bauhinia forficata Link
- Bauhinia fryxellii Wunderlin
- Bauhinia funchiana Vaz & G.P.Lewis
- Bauhinia fusconervis (Bong.) Steud.
- Bauhinia galpinii N.E.Br.
- Bauhinia gardneri Benth.
- Bauhinia geniculata Wunderlin
- Bauhinia gilesii F.Muell. & F.M.Bailey
- Bauhinia glaziovii Taub.
- Bauhinia godefroyi Gagnep.
- Bauhinia goyazensis Harms
- Bauhinia grandidieri Baill.
- Bauhinia grandifolia (Bong.) D.Dietr.
- Bauhinia grevei Drake
- Bauhinia gypsicola McVaugh
- Bauhinia hagenbeckii Harms
- Bauhinia hainanensis Merr. & Chun ex H.Y.Chen
- Bauhinia haughtii Wunderlin
- Bauhinia hildebrandtii Vatke
- Bauhinia hirsuta Weinm.
- Bauhinia holophylla (Bong.) Steud.
- Bauhinia hostmanniana Miq.
- Bauhinia humilis Rusby
- Bauhinia integerrima Mart. ex Benth.
- Bauhinia involucrans Gagnep.
- Bauhinia isopetala Griff.
- Bauhinia jenningsii P.Wilson
- Bauhinia jucunda Brandegee
- Bauhinia kalantha Harms
- Bauhinia kleiniana Burkart
- Bauhinia leptantha Malme
- Bauhinia leucantha Thulin
- Bauhinia longicuspis Spruce ex Benth.
- Bauhinia longifolia (Bong.) Steud.
- Bauhinia longipedicellata Ducke
- Bauhinia longiracemosa Hayata
- Bauhinia lorantha Pierre ex Gagnep.
- Bauhinia lunarioides A.Gray ex S.Watson
- Bauhinia macrantha Oliv.
- Bauhinia macranthera Benth. ex Hemsl.
- Bauhinia madagascariensis Desv.
- Bauhinia malacotricha Harms
- Bauhinia malacotrichoides R.S.Cowan
- Bauhinia malmeana Vaz & G.P.Lewis
- Bauhinia marginata (Bong.) Steud.
- Bauhinia melastomatoidea R.Torres
- Bauhinia membranacea Benth.
- Bauhinia mendoncae Torre & Hillc.
- Bauhinia miriamae R.Torres
- Bauhinia mollis (Bong.) D.Dietr.
- Bauhinia mombassae Vatke
- Bauhinia monandra Kurz
- Bauhinia moningerae Merr.
- Bauhinia morondavensis Du Puy & R.Rabev.
- Bauhinia multinervia (Kunth) DC.
- Bauhinia natalensis Oliv.
- Bauhinia ombrophila Du Puy & R.Rabev.
- Bauhinia ovata (Bong.) Vogel
- Bauhinia oxysepala Gagnep.
- Bauhinia pansamalana Donn.Sm.
- Bauhinia parkinsonii C.E.C.Fisch.
- Bauhinia parviloba Ducke
- Bauhinia pauletia Pers.
- Bauhinia pentandra (Bong.) Vogel ex D.Dietr.
- Bauhinia pervilleana Baill.
- Bauhinia pes-caprae Cav.
- Bauhinia petersiana Bolle
- Bauhinia petiolata (Mutis ex DC.) Triana ex Hook.
- Bauhinia phoenicea B.Heyne ex Wight & Arn.
- Bauhinia pichinchensis Wunderlin
- Bauhinia picta (Kunth) DC.
- Bauhinia pinheiroi Wunderlin
- Bauhinia pinnata Blanco
- Bauhinia piresii Vaz & G.P.Lewis
- Bauhinia platypetala Burch. ex Benth.
- Bauhinia platyphylla Benth.
- Bauhinia podopetala Baker
- Bauhinia pottsii G.Don
- Bauhinia prainiana Craib
- Bauhinia pringlei S.Watson
- Bauhinia proboscidea P.Juárez, Rod.Flores & M.A.Blanco
- Bauhinia pulchella Benth.
- Bauhinia purpurea L.
- Bauhinia racemosa Lam.
- Bauhinia ramirezii Reynoso
- Bauhinia ramosissima Benth. ex Hemsl.
- Bauhinia retifolia Standl.
- Bauhinia richardiana DC.
- Bauhinia rubeleruziana Donn.Sm.
- Bauhinia rufa (Bong.) Steud.
- Bauhinia rufescens Lam.
- Bauhinia saccocalyx Pierre
- Bauhinia saksuwaniae Mattapha, Chantar. & Suddee
- Bauhinia seleriana Harms
- Bauhinia seminarioi Harms ex Eggers
- Bauhinia smilacifolia Burch. ex Benth.
- Bauhinia stenantha Diels
- Bauhinia subclavata Benth.
- Bauhinia subrotundifolia Cav.
- Bauhinia taitensis Taub.
- Bauhinia tarapotensis Benth.
- Bauhinia tenella Benth.
- Bauhinia thailandica Chatan & Promprom
- Bauhinia thompsonii I.M.Johnst.
- Bauhinia tomentosa L.
- Bauhinia tuichiensis Cayola & A.Fuentes
- Bauhinia uberlandiana Vaz & G.P.Lewis
- Bauhinia ungulata L.
- Bauhinia urbaniana Schinz
- Bauhinia uruguayensis Benth.
- Bauhinia variegata L.
- Bauhinia vespertilio S.Moore
- Bauhinia viridescens Desv.
- Bauhinia weberbaueri Harms
- Bauhinia wunderlinii R.Torres
- Bauhinia xerophyta Du Puy & R.Rabev.
Hybrids
One hybrid is known:[11]
- Bauhinia × blakeana S. T. Dunn (Bauhinia variegata × Bauhinia purpurea)—Hong Kong orchid tree
Fossils
Several fossils of Bauhinia species have been discovered:
- †Bauhinia cheniae Qi Wang, Z. Q. Song, Y. F. Chen, S. Shen & Z. Y. Li[12]
- †Bauhinia cretacea Newberry[13]
- †Bauhinia fotana F.M.B. Jacques et al.[14]
- †Bauhinia gigantea Newberry[15]
- †Bauhinia gracilis J.R. Tao[16]
- †Bauhinia larsenii D.X. Zhang & Y. F. Chen[17]
- †Bauhinia ningmingensis Qi Wang, Z. Q. Song, Y. F. Chen, S. Shen & Z. Y. Li[12]
- †Bauhinia potosiana Berry[18]
- †Bauhinia thonningii Schum.[19]
- †Bauhinia ungulatoides Y.X.Lin, W.O.Wong, G.L.Shi, S.Shen & Z.Y.Li[20]
- †Bauhinia wenshanensis H.H. Meng & Z.K. Zhou[21]
- †Bauhinia wyomingiana Brown[22][23]
Segregated genera
Species in the genera Barklya, Gigasiphon, Lysiphyllum, Phanera (including Lasiobema), Piliostigma, Schnella, and Tylosema are sometimes included in Bauhinia sensu lato or considered as tribe Bauhinieae.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Genus: Bauhinia L.". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 2007-03-29. http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?1337.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Plants of the World Online entry for Bauhinia". Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2023. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn%3Alsid%3Aipni.org%3Anames%3A327181-2.
- ↑ "Reorganization of the Cercideae (Fabaceae: Caesalpinioideae)". Phytoneuron 48: 1–5. 2010. http://www.phytoneuron.net/PhytoN-Cercideae.pdf.
- ↑ Sunset Western Garden Book, 1995:606–607; OED: "Bauhinia"
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 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.
- ↑ "The genus Bauhinia s.l. (Leguminosae): a phylogeny based on the plastid trnL–trnF region". Botany 87 (10): 947–960. 2009. doi:10.1139/B09-065.
- ↑ "SEINet Portal Network - Bauhinia lunarioides". https://swbiodiversity.org/seinet/taxa/index.php?tid=17161&taxauthid=1&clid=0#.
- ↑ Merrill, Elmer Drew (1903). A dictionary of the plant names of the Philippine Islands. Bureau of Public Printing, Department of The Interior. p. 128. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/p/philamer/AGJ6434.0001.001/130.
- ↑ Seidemann, Johannes (2005). World Spice Plants. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. p. 64. ISBN 9783540279082.
- ↑ "ILDIS LegumeWeb entry for Bauhinia". Cardiff School of Computer Science & Informatics. http://www.ildis.org.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 "GRIN species records of Bauhinia". http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?1337.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 "Leaves and fruits of Bauhinia (Leguminosae, Caesalpinioideae, Cercideae) from the Oligocene Ningming Formation of Guangxi, South China and their biogeographic implications". BMC Evolutionary Biology 14: 88. 2014. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-14-88. PMID 24758153.
- ↑ Bell W-A. (1963). Upper Cretaceous Floras of the Dunvegan, Bad Heart, and Milk River Formations of Western Canada (94th ed.). Canada: Dept. of Mines and Technical Surveys.
- ↑ "A tropical forest of the middle Miocene of Fujian (SE China) reveals Sino-Indian biogeographic affinities". Rev Palaeobot Palynol 216: 76–91. 2015. doi:10.1016/j.revpalbo.2015.02.001.
- ↑ Bell W-A. (1957). Flora of the Upper Cretaceous Nanaimo Group of Vancouver Island. British Columbia: E. Cloutier. pp. 1–84. doi:10.4095/101457. http://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/11368bff-ed80-556e-929c-3b5d14d75bb2. Retrieved 2017-03-06.
- ↑ The Evolution of the Late Cretaceous–Cenozoic floras in China. Beijing: Science Press. 2000. https://www.chinascientificbooks.com/the-evolution-of-the-late-cretaceouscenozoic-floras-in-china-p-656/.
- ↑ "Bauhinia larsenii, a fossil legume from Guangxi, China". Bot J Linn Soc 147 (4): 437–440. 2005. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.2005.00373.x.
- ↑ Berry E-W. (1917). "Fossil plants from Bolivia and their bearing upon the age of uplift of the eastern Andes". Proc US Natl Mus 54 (2229): 103–164. doi:10.5479/si.00963801.54-2229.103. http://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/14674/1/USNMP-54_2229_1917.pdf.
- ↑ Eisenmann V. (1994). "Equidae of the Albertine rift valley, Uganda". Geol Paleobiol Albertine Rift Valley, Uganda-Zaire 2: 289–307.
- ↑ "Bilobate leaves of Bauhinia (Leguminosae, Caesalpinioideae, Cercideae) from the middle Miocene of Fujian Province, southeastern China and their biogeographic implications". BMC Evolutionary Biology 15: 252. 2015. doi:10.1186/s12862-015-0540-9. PMID 26572133.
- ↑ "New biogeographic insight into Bauhinia s.l. (Leguminosae): Integration from fossil records and molecular analyses". BMC Evolutionary Biology 14: 181. 2014. doi:10.1186/s12862-014-0181-4. PMID 25288346.
- ↑ Knowlton F-H. (1899). "Fossil flora of the Yellowstone National Park". US Geol Surv Mon 32: 651–791.
- ↑ Wilf P. (2000). "Late Paleocene–early Eocene climate changes in southwestern Wyoming: Paleobotanical analysis". Geol Soc Am Bull 112 (2): 292–307. doi:10.1130/0016-7606(2000)112<292:LPECCI>2.0.CO;2. Bibcode: 2000GSAB..112..292W.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q287313 entry
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bauhinia.
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