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.[1] It belongs to the subfamily Cercidoideae[2] and the tribe Bauhinieae.[3] It is dioecious, with male and female flowers on separate plants.[4]
^Sinou C, Forest F, Lewis GP, Bruneau A (2009). "The genus Bauhinia s.l. (Leguminosae): A phylogeny based on the plastid trnL–trnF region". Botany. 87 (10): 947–960. doi:10.1139/B09-065.
^Sinou, Carole; Cardinal‐Mcteague, Warren; Bruneau, Anne (2020). "Testing generic limits in Cercidoideae (Leguminosae): Insights from plastid and duplicated nuclear gene sequences". Taxon. 69: 67–86. doi:10.1002/tax.12207.
^"ILDIS LegumeWeb entry for Piliostigma". International Legume Database & Information Service. Cardiff School of Computer Science & Informatics. Archived from the original on June 10, 2014. Retrieved 8 May 2014.
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