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Bauhinia
Taxonomy
Bauhinia was named by Linnaeus (1753). It is extant. Its type is Bauhinia divaricata.
It was assigned to Caesalpinaceae by Chauhan (1991); to Leguminosae by Knowlton (1919), Lakhanpal et al. (1976), Liu et al. (1996); to Caesalpinioideae by Meng and Zhou (2014); and to Fabaceae by Srivastava (1991), Antal and Awasthi (1993), Prasad (2008), Prasad et al. (2017).
It was assigned to Caesalpinaceae by Chauhan (1991); to Leguminosae by Knowlton (1919), Lakhanpal et al. (1976), Liu et al. (1996); to Caesalpinioideae by Meng and Zhou (2014); and to Fabaceae by Srivastava (1991), Antal and Awasthi (1993), Prasad (2008), Prasad et al. (2017).
Species
B. aculeata, B. acuminata, B. alabamensis, B. cretacea, B. deomalica, B. divaricata (type species), B. gigantea, B. kachchhensis, B. marylandica, B. nepalensis, B. pseudocotyledon, B. purniyagiriensis, B. purpurea, B. ramthiensis, B. ripleyensis, B. scandens, B. siwalika, B. tomentosa, B. ungulata, B. variegata, B. wenshanensis, B. wyomingana
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1753 | Bauhinia Linnaeus p. 374 |
| 1919 | Bauhinia Knowlton |
| 1976 | Bauhinia Lakhanpal et al. |
| 1991 | Bauhinia Chauhan |
| 1991 | Bauhinia Srivastava |
| 1993 | Bauhinia Antal and Awasthi |
| 1996 | Bauhinia Liu et al. |
| 2008 | Bauhinia Prasad |
| 2014 | Bauhinia Meng and Zhou |
| 2017 | Bauhinia Prasad et al. |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. Bauhinia Linnaeus 1753
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Bauhinia aculeata Linnaeus 1753
Bauhinia acuminata Linnaeus 1753
†Bauhinia alabamensis Berry 1910
†Bauhinia cretacea Newberry 1886
†Bauhinia deomalica Awasthi and Prakash 1987
Bauhinia divaricata Linnaeus 1753
†Bauhinia gigantea Newberry 1895
†Bauhinia kachchhensis Lakhanpal and Guleria 1982
†Bauhinia marylandica Berry 1908
†Bauhinia nepalensis Awasthi and Prasad 1990
†Bauhinia pseudocotyledon Cockerell 1909
†Bauhinia purniyagiriensis Prasad et al. 2017
Bauhinia purpurea Linnaeus 1753
†Bauhinia ramthiensis Antal and Awasthi 1993
†Bauhinia ripleyensis Berry 1916
Bauhinia scandens Linnaeus 1753
†Bauhinia siwalika Lakhanpal and Awasthi 1984
Bauhinia tomentosa Linnaeus 1753
Bauhinia ungulata Linnaeus 1753
Bauhinia variegata Linnaeus 1753
†Bauhinia wenshanensis Meng and Zhou 2014
†Bauhinia wyomingana Brown 1962
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Early/Lower Cenomanian to the top of the Early/Lower Pleistocene or 100.50000 to 0.77400 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 93.9 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 93.9 Ma
Collections (31 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Early/Lower Cenomanian | Canada (British Columbia) | B. cretacea? (31912 32031) | |
| Coniacian - Campanian | Canada (British Columbia) | B. gigantea (35189) | |
| Paleocene | USA (Wyoming) | B. wyomingana (40836) | |
| Paleocene | China (Heilongjiang) | B. gracilis (223817) | |
| Tiffanian | USA (Wyoming) | B. wyomingiana (28633 28634 28637 28643 28644) | |
| Ypresian | United Kingdom (England) | B. primigenia (22811) | |
| Lutetian | India (Kachchh) | B. kachchhensis (45583) | |
| Early/Lower Miocene | India (Gujarat) | B. kachchhensis (227849) | |
| Miocene - Pliocene | Uganda | B. thonningi (22343 22394) | |
| Miocene - Pliocene | India (West Bengal) | B. ramthiensis (223488) | |
| Miocene - Pliocene | India (Bihar) | B. siwalika (223029) | |
| Miocene - Pliocene | Nepal | B. nepalensis (222975) | |
| Neogene | China (Yunnan) | B. sp. (224534) | |
| Neogene | India (Tamil Nadu) | B. sp. (224633) | |
| Middle Miocene | India (Arunachal Pradesh) | B. deomalica (224743) | |
| Middle Miocene | India (Uttarakhand) | B. nepalensis (224496) B. purniyagiriensis (224493) | |
| Middle Miocene | Ecuador (Azuay) | B. sp. (31012) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | China (Yunnan) | B. sp. (224413) B. wenshanensis (224409) | |
| Early/Lower Pliocene - Late/Upper Pliocene | Bolivia (Potosi) | B. potosiana (32127) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | China (Guangxi) | B. sp. (223913) | |
| Quaternary | India (Tripura) | B. sp. (228883) | |
| Quaternary | India (Rajasthan) | B. sp. (228785) | |
| Calabrian - Holocene | Congo-Kinshasa | B. sp. (22072) |