Bauhinia Linnaeus 1753 (legume)

Angiospermae - Fabales - Fabaceae

Full reference: C. Linnaeus. 1753. Species Plantarum 1-1200

Parent taxon: Fabaceae according to M. Prasad et al. 2017

See also Antal and Awasthi 1993, Chauhan 1991, Knowlton 1919, Lakhanpal et al. 1976, Liu et al. 1996, Meng and Zhou 2014, Prasad 2008 and Srivastava 1991

Sister taxa: Acacia, Aeschynomenoxylon, Afzelia, Albizinium, Archidendron, Baphioxylon, Baphioxylon, Bauhinioxylon, Berlinia, Butea, Caesalpinia, Canavalia, Cassia, Cassinium, Ceratonia, Cercidoideae, Copaifera, Crotalaria, Cynometra, Dalbergia, Derris, Dialium, Dialiumoxylon, Entada, Erythrina, Euacacioxylon, Faboideae, Hedysareae, Hopeoxylon, Humboldtia, Indigofera, Ingoxylon, Isoberlinioxylon, Kingiodendron, Koompassia, Koompassioxylon, Leguminocarpon, Leguminophyllum, Margocolporites, Millettia, Millettioxylon, Mimosoideae, Mucuna, Myrtacidites, Ormosia, Ormosioxylon, Ougenioxylon, Oxylobium, Pahudioxylon, Paracacioxylon, Peltophoroxylon, Pericopsoxylon, Phaeoceros, Phaseolus, Pongamia, Praedapollis, Pterocarpus, Samanea, Sesbania, Sindora, Spirosyncolpites, Tephrosia, Wagatea, Desmodophyllum, Pterogynoxylon, Tetrapleuroxylon, Ingophyllum, Thermopsis, Lespedeza, Dalbergiophyllum, Cassioxylon, Zittelia, Gleditschites, Phaca, Leguminosites, Cytisus, Desmodium, Papilionaceophyllum, Cottaites, Leguminocarpum, Astragalus, Caesalpinioideae, Ervites, Diplophyllum, Schmidites, Inga, Pisum, Brachystegioxylon, Diphysa, Adelocercis, Colutea, Palaeolobium, Mimosaceoxylon, Gleditsioxylon, Wisteria, Albizzioxylon, Albizia, Falcicutis, Podalyriophyllum, Tamarindoxylon, Vouapa, Aeschynomene, Mimosoxylon, Caesalpinioxylon, Gymnocladus, Bauhinioxylon, Ungerites, Fichtelites, Micropodium, Erythrophleum, Campylotropis, Enantiophyllites, Fontainea, Martyia, Polyadopollenites, Faboidea, Robinoxylon, Cladrastis, Amorpha, Bauhinites, Felixia, Vicia, Caesalpinaceae, Strongylodon, Pterocarpoxylon, Cynometrophyllum, Dalbergioxylon, Leucaena, Erythrophloeoxylon, Leguminoxylon, Acacioxylon, Pycnolobium, Diphyllites, Pueraria, Taenioxylon, Adenantheroxylon, Berlinioxylon, Dichrostachyoxylon, Andiroxylon

Subtaxa: Bauhinia alabamensis Bauhinia cretacea Bauhinia deomalica Bauhinia gigantea Bauhinia kachchhensis Bauhinia marylandica Bauhinia nepalensis Bauhinia pseudocotyledon Bauhinia purniyagiriensis Bauhinia ramthiensis Bauhinia ripleyensis Bauhinia siwalika Bauhinia wenshanensis Bauhinia wyomingana

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Ecology: "photoautotroph"

Distribution:

• Quaternary of China (1 collection), the Congo-Kinshasa (1), India (2)

• Pliocene of Bolivia (1)

• Miocene to Pliocene of India (2), Nepal (1), Uganda (2)

• Neogene of China (1), India (1)

• Miocene of China (2), Ecuador (1), India (4)

• Eocene of India (1), the United Kingdom (1)

• Paleocene of China (1), United States (6: Wyoming)

• Cretaceous of Canada (3: British Columbia)

Total: 31 collections each including a single occurrence

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