{{Short description|Genus of legumes}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Bauhinia malabarica.jpg |image_caption = ''Piliostigma malabaricum'' |display_parents = 2 |taxon = Piliostigma |authority = Hochst. (1846), nom. cons. |type_species = ''Piliostigma reticulatum'' |type_species_authority = (DC.) Hochst. |subdivision_ranks = Species |subdivision = 5; see text |subdivision_ref = <ref name = powo>[https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:329960-2 ''Piliostigma'' Hochst.] ''Plants of the World Online''. Retrieved 14 September 2023.</ref> |synonyms = * ''Elayuna'' <small>Raf. (1838)</small> * ''Locellaria'' <small>Welw. (1859)</small> * ''Pileostigma'' {{small|Hochst. (1846), orth. var.}} |synonyms_ref = <ref name = powo/> }}
'''''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.<ref name = powo/> It belongs to the subfamily Cercidoideae<ref name="6subfamilies">{{cite journal | author = The Legume Phylogeny Working Group (LPWG). | year = 2017 | title = A new subfamily classification of the Leguminosae based on a taxonomically comprehensive phylogeny | journal = Taxon | volume = 66 | issue = 1 | pages = 44–77 | doi = 10.12705/661.3| doi-access = free | hdl = 10568/90658 | hdl-access = free }}</ref> and the tribe Bauhinieae.<ref name="Sinou">{{cite journal | title = The genus ''Bauhinia'' s.l. (Leguminosae): A phylogeny based on the plastid ''trnL''–''trnF'' region | year = 2009 |vauthors=Sinou C, Forest F, Lewis GP, Bruneau A | journal = Botany | volume = 87 | issue = 10 | pages = 947–960 | doi = 10.1139/B09-065 }}</ref> It is dioecious, with male and female flowers on separate plants.<ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.1002/tax.12207|title=Testing generic limits in Cercidoideae (Leguminosae): Insights from plastid and duplicated nuclear gene sequences|year=2020|last1=Sinou|first1=Carole|last2=Cardinal-Mcteague|first2=Warren|last3=Bruneau|first3=Anne|journal=Taxon|volume=69|pages=67–86}}</ref>
==Species== ''Piliostigma'' comprises the following species:<ref name = powo/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ildis.org/LegumeWeb?version~10.01&genus~Piliostigma&species~ |title=ILDIS LegumeWeb entry for ''Piliostigma'' |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |website=International Legume Database & Information Service |publisher=Cardiff School of Computer Science & Informatics |accessdate=8 May 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140610013521/http://www.ildis.org/LegumeWeb?version~10.01 |archivedate=June 10, 2014 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?15942 | title = GRIN species records of ''Piliostigma'' | author = USDA | author-link = USDA | author2 = ARS | author2-link = Agricultural Research Service | author3 = National Genetic Resources Program | date = | website = Germplasm Resources Information Network—(GRIN) [Online Database] | publisher = National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland | accessdate = 5 May 2014 }}</ref> <!-- Piliostigma acidum was reclassified as Piliostigma malabaricum. --> <!-- Piliostigma enigmaticum was reclassified as Bauhinia brachycarpa. --> * ''Piliostigma foveolatum'' <small>(Dalzell) Thoth.</small> * ''Piliostigma malabaricum'' <small>(Roxb.) Benth.</small>—purple orchid tree <!-- Piliostigma racemosa is a misspelling of Piliostigma racemosum. --> * ''Piliostigma reticulatum'' <small>(DC.) Hochst.</small> * ''Piliostigma thonningii'' <small>(Schum.) Milne-Redh.</small> * ''Piliostigma tortuosum'' <small>(Collett & Hemsl.) Thoth.</small>
Some other species often placed here are nowadays usually assigned their traditional genus ''Bauhinia'' again.
==References== {{Reflist|2}}
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Category:Cercidoideae Category:Fabaceae genera Category:Dioecious plants Category:Taxa named by Christian Ferdinand Friedrich Hochstetter