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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Bauhinia

Hierarchical position of the Genus Bauhinia

Regnum  Plantae common name: The plant kingdom       Divisio  Magnoliophyta Cronquist syn. Angiospermophyta / Anthophyta pub. Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: angiosperms, flowering plants       Subdivisio  Magnoliophytina Frohne & U. Jensen ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: Angiosperms       Classis  Rosopsida Batsch pub. Dispos. Gen. Pl. Jenens.: 28. 1788.       Subclassis  Rosidae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 264. Jan-Mar 1967.       SuperOrdo  Fabanae R. Dahlgren ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 74: 179. 25 Mar 1993.       Ordo  Fabales Bromhead pub. Edinburgh New Philos. J. 25: 126. Jul 1838. common name: legumes       Familia  Caesalpiniaceae R. Br. in Flinders pub. Voy. Terra Austr. 2: 551. 19 Jun 1814.       Tribus  Bauhinieae Benth. pub. J. Bot. (Hooker) 2: 74. Mar 1840.       Subtribus  Bauhiniinae (Benth.) Walp. pub. Repert. Bot. Syst. 2: 74. Mar 1840.       Genus  Bauhinia L. pub. (1753) common name: bauhinia

Named members of the Genus Bauhinia

1	Species  congesta (Britt. & Rose) Lundell syn. Bauhinia lunarioides
2	Species  esculenta Burchell common name: camel's foot
3	Species  fassoglensis Kotschy ex Schweinf. common name: bauhinia
4	Species  galpinii N.E. Br. common name: African plume
5	Species  jermyana (Britt.) Lundell syn. Bauhinia lunarioides
6	Species  lunarioides Gray ex S. Wats. common name: Texasplume
7	Species  megalandra Griseb. syn. Bauhinia multinervia
8	Species  monandra Kurz common name: Napoleon's plume
9	Species  multinervia (Kunth) DC. common name: petite flamboyant bauhinia
10	Species  pauletia Pers. common name: railroadfence
11	Species  punctata Bolle, non Jacq. syn. Bauhinia galpinii
12	Species  purpurea L. common name: butterfly tree, mountain ebony
13	Species  tomentosa L. common name: St. Thomas tree
14	Species  variegata L. common name: mountain ebony
15	Species  x blakeana S.T. Dunn
16	Species  yunnanensis Franch. common name: Yunnan bauhinia

Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.

Additional information is available in the commercial version of The Compleat Botanica software for species with this symbol.

For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.