# Piliostigma

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{{Short description|Genus of legumes}}
{{Automatic taxobox
|image = Bauhinia malabarica.jpg
|image_caption = ''[Piliostigma malabaricum](/source/Piliostigma_malabaricum)''
|display_parents = 2
|taxon = Piliostigma
|authority = Hochst. (1846), nom. cons.
|type_species = ''[Piliostigma reticulatum](/source/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](/source/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 plant](/source/flowering_plant)s in the [legume](/source/legume) family, [Fabaceae](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Taxon_(journal)) | 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](/source/Botany_(journal)) | volume = 87 | issue = 10 | pages = 947–960 | doi = 10.1139/B09-065 }}</ref> It is [dioecious](/source/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](/source/Germplasm_Resources_Information_Network)—(GRIN) [Online Database] | publisher = [National Germplasm Resources Laboratory](/source/Henry_A._Wallace_Beltsville_Agricultural_Research_Center), Beltsville, Maryland | accessdate = 5 May 2014 }}</ref>
<!-- Piliostigma acidum was reclassified as Piliostigma malabaricum. -->
<!-- Piliostigma enigmaticum was reclassified as Bauhinia brachycarpa. -->
* ''[Piliostigma foveolatum](/source/Piliostigma_foveolatum)'' <small>(Dalzell) Thoth.</small>
* ''[Piliostigma malabaricum](/source/Piliostigma_malabaricum)'' <small>(Roxb.) Benth.</small>—purple orchid tree
<!-- Piliostigma racemosa is a misspelling of Piliostigma racemosum. -->
* ''[Piliostigma reticulatum](/source/Piliostigma_reticulatum)'' <small>(DC.) Hochst.</small>
* ''[Piliostigma thonningii](/source/Piliostigma_thonningii)'' <small>(Schum.) Milne-Redh.</small>
* ''[Piliostigma tortuosum](/source/Piliostigma_tortuosum)'' <small>(Collett & Hemsl.) Thoth.</small>

Some other species often placed here are nowadays usually assigned their traditional genus ''[Bauhinia](/source/Bauhinia)'' again.

==References==
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== External links==
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Category:Cercidoideae
Category:Fabaceae genera
Category:Dioecious plants
Category:Taxa named by Christian Ferdinand Friedrich Hochstetter

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