Piliostigma Explained

Piliostigma is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It includes five species of small deciduous trees native to sub-Saharan Africa, the Indian subcontinent, Indochina, Java, the Philippines, and northern Australia. It belongs to the subfamily Cercidoideae^[1] and the tribe Bauhinieae.^[2] It is dioecious, with male and female flowers on separate plants.^[3]

Species

Piliostigma comprises the following species:^{[4] [5]}

• Piliostigma foveolatum (Dalzell) Thoth.
• Piliostigma malabaricum (Roxb.) Benth.—purple orchid tree

• Piliostigma reticulatum (DC.) Hochst.
• Piliostigma thonningii (Schum.) Milne-Redh.
• Piliostigma tortuosum (Collett & Hemsl.) Thoth.

Notes and References

1. 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 .
2. 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 .
3. 10.1002/tax.12207. Testing generic limits in Cercidoideae (Leguminosae): Insights from plastid and duplicated nuclear gene sequences. 2020. Sinou. Carole. Cardinal-Mcteague. Warren. Bruneau. Anne. Taxon. 69. 67–86.
4. Web site: ILDIS LegumeWeb entry for Piliostigma . . International Legume Database & Information Service . Cardiff School of Computer Science & Informatics . 8 May 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140610013521/http://www.ildis.org/LegumeWeb?version~10.01 . June 10, 2014 .
5. Web site: GRIN species records of Piliostigma . USDA . USDA . ARS . Agricultural Research Service . National Genetic Resources Program . Germplasm Resources Information Network—(GRIN) [Online Database] . National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland . 5 May 2014 .