Taxon name | Bauhinia L. s.s. | Barklya F. Muell. | Gigasiphon Drake | Lasiobema (Korth.) Miq. | Lysiphyllum (Benth.) de Wit | Phanera Lour. | Piliostigma Hochst. | Schnella Raddi | Tylosema (Schweinf.) Torre et Hillc. |
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Type | Bauhinia divaricata L. | Barklya syringifolia F. Muell. | Gigasiphon humblotianum (Baill.) Drake | Lasiobema scandens (L.) de Wit | Lysiphyllum cunninghamii (Benth.) de Wit | Phanera coccinea Lour. | Piliostigma reticulatum (DC.) Hochst. | Schnella macrostachya Raddi | Tylosema fassoglense (Schweinf.) Torre et Hillc. |
Habit | Trees, shrubs (rarely semi-scandent), sometimes with intrastipular spines, rarely with thorns, without tendrils | Trees (unarmed, up to 18Â m tall) | Mostly trees, occasionally large shrubs or climbers, without tendrils | Tendrilled lianas, scandent shrubs, without intrastipular spines or thorns | Trees, semi-scandent shrubs, tendrilled lianas, without intrastipular spines or thorns | Tendrilled lianas, scandent shrubs, rarely trees, without intrastipular spines or thorns | Trees, shrubs, without tendrils | Tendrilled lianas, scandent shrubs, without intrastipular spines or thorns | Trailing or climbing herbs, lianas, without intrastipular spines or thorns |
Calyx | Spathaceous, splitting along one side or into 2 unequal lobes | Shortly lobed in the upper part, campanulate with obtuse teeth | Lobed, forming a very long hypanthium | Lobed or truncate | Lobed or split, broadly campanulate, ribbed, rusty-velvety | Lobed, forming 4 or 5 approximately equal lobes | Lobed in the upper part, dentate | Lobed or truncate, five-veined or inconspicuously veined | Lobed, forming a short hypanthium |
Fertile stamen | 1-10 | 10 | 10 | 3 | 10 | 3, rarely 2 | 10 | 10 | 2 |
Distribution | Pantropics | Australia | West and East Africa, Malesia | Asia | Australia, Southeast Asia | South and Southeast Asia | Africa, Asia, Australia | Neotropics | Africa |
Species number | 154 | 1 | 6 | 22 | 8 | 92 | 3 | 49 | 5 |