Lysiphyllum Explained

Lysiphyllum^{[1] [2]} is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It includes nine species of trees, semi-scandent shrubs, and lianas which range from India through Southeast Asia to Australasia. Typical habitats include seasonally-dry tropical forest and woodland, vine thickets, Brigalow and Gidgee scrubland, floodplains, alluvial flats, tidal forest, mangroves, river and stream banks, and occasionally dunes and coral islets. They can grow on diverse soils including calcareous, granitic, and basaltic.

The genus belongs to subfamily Cercidoideae^[3] and tribe Bauhinieae.^[4] It belongs to the subfamily Cercidoideae. It was formerly treated as part of the genus Bauhinia, but recent molecular phylogenetic analysis confirms that Lysiphyllum is a distinct genus from Bauhinia.^{[5] [6] [7] [8]}

Species

Lysiphyllum comprises the following species:^{[9] [10] [11]}

• Lysiphyllum binatum (Blanco) de Wit
• Lysiphyllum carronii (F. Muell.) Pedley—northern beantree, red bauhinia
• Lysiphyllum cunninghamii (Benth.) de Wit
• Lysiphyllum dewitii (K. Larsen & S. S. Larsen) Bandyop. & Ghoshal
• Lysiphyllum diphyllum (Buch.-Ham.) de Wit
• Lysiphyllum gilvum (Bailey) Pedley
• Lysiphyllum hookeri (F. Muell.) Pedley—white bauhinia, pegunny, mountain ebony, Queensland ebony, Hooker's bauhinia
• Lysiphyllum strychnifolium (W. G. Craib) A. Schmitz
• Lysiphyllum winitii (Craib) de Wit

Notes and References

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2. Web site: Lysiphyllum International Plant Names Index. 2021-01-22. www.ipni.org.
3. The Legume Phylogeny Working Group (LPWG). . 2017 . A new subfamily classification of the Leguminosae based on a taxonomically comprehensive phylogeny . . 66 . 1 . 44–77 . 10.12705/661.3. free . 10568/90658 . free .
4. The genus Bauhinia s.l. (Leguminosae): a phylogeny based on the plastid trnL–trnF region . 2009 . Sinou C, Forest F, Lewis GP, Bruneau A . . 87 . 10 . 947–960 . 10.1139/B09-065 .
5. Web site: Lysiphyllum . Legumes of the World . London, England . Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Online, at kew.org . 14 May 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140515031433/http://www.kew.org/science-research-data/lowo/TaxonomicView/SubFamily/Tribe/Genus/index.htm?kew_lowo_accepted_name_path=Lysiphyllum . 15 May 2014 . dead .
6. Bruneau A, Forest F, Herendeen PS, Klitgaard BB, Lewis GP . 2001 . Phylogenetic Relationships in the Caesalpinioideae (Leguminosae) as Inferred from Chloroplast trnL Intron Sequences . . 26 . 3 . 487–514 . 10.1043/0363-6445-26.3.487 . 31 January 2024 .
7. Book: Herendeen PS, Bruneau A, Lewis GP . 2003 . Phylogenetic relationships in caesalpinioid legumes: a preliminary analysis based on morphological and molecular data . Klitgaard BB, Bruneau A . Advances in Legume Systematics, Part 10: Higher Level Systematics . 37–62 . Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . 978-1-84246-054-2 .
8. Bruneau A, Mercure M, Lewis GP, Herendeen PS . 2008 . Phylogenetic patterns and diversification in the caesalpinioid legumes . . 86 . 7 . 697–718 . 10.1139/b08-058.
9. Web site: ILDIS LegumeWeb entry for Lysiphyllum . . International Legume Database & Information Service . Cardiff School of Computer Science & Informatics . 9 May 2014 .
10. Web site: GRIN species records of Lysiphyllum . USDA . USDA . ARS . Agricultural Research Service . National Genetic Resources Program . Germplasm Resources Information Network—(GRIN) [Online Database] . National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland . 9 May 2014 .
11. Bandyopadhyay S, Ghoshal PP . 2014 . Two new combinations in Lysiphyllum (Leguminosae-Caesalpinioideae) . Phytotaxa . 178 . 4 . 298–300 . 10.11646/phytotaxa.178.4.3 .