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Electronic Flora of South Australia genus Fact Sheet

Family: Fabaceae
Lysiphyllum

Citation: de Wit, Reinwardtia 3:431 (1956).

Derivation: Greek lysis, the loosing or separation of parts; and phyllon, a leaf; alluding to the deep split between the leaflets.

Synonymy: Bauhinia L. sect. Lysiphyllum Benth. in Benth. & Hook. f., Gen. Pl. 1:576 (1865).

Common name: Beantrees.

Description:
Tree or large shrub; leaves deeply divided into 2 oblique obtuse leaflets.

Flowers in terminal racemes: sepals 5, united at the base into a tube which is lined by a disk from the summit of which rise 10 free perigynous stamens; petals 5; ovary stipitate, with several ovules.

Pod flat, woody.

Distribution:  The 5 species in Australia are tropical in distribution and 1 species only occurs in northern S.Aust.

Biology: No text

Taxonomic notes: The genus Bauhinia sensu J. Black (1948) has been divided by several authors into much smaller units. Wunderlin, K. Larsen & S.S. Larsen in Polhill & Raven (1981), Advances in legume systematics pt 1, retain Bauhinia for our species.

Author: Not yet available


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