Bauhinia Linnaeus (1753: 374–375)

Amorim, Daniele Dos Santos De & Pessoa, Edlley, 2025, Bauhinia s. s. (Fabaceae-Cercidoideae) from Baixada Cuiabana, Mato Grosso, Brazil: a neglected center of diversity for the genus, Phytotaxa 681 (2), pp. 146-166 : 149

Bauhinia Linnaeus (1753: 374–375)

Trees, treelets, shrubs, or subshrubs with unarmed branches, or armed with prickles or rarely spines (B. sect. Benthamia ), sometimes with decumbent or scandent branches. Intrastipular nectaries present or absent. Stipules caducous or persistent. Leaves unifoliolate, entire to bilobed, or bifoliolate. Terminal or axillary inflorescences in racemes, or pseudoracemes. Floral buds clavate, ellipsoid, ovoid or tubular; hypanthium discoid, cylindrical, urceolate or tubular; calyx campanulate, spathaceous or partially united in 2–5 lobes; petals 5, white, pinkish or lilac; stamens free or connate at the base forming a staminal tube, fertile stamens 1–10 or 5 fertile stamens alternating with 5 staminodes or 5 fertile stamens alternating with 5 stamens with vestigial or reduced anthers or 1 fertile stamen with 9 staminodes (B. sect. Bauhinia ); ovary stipitate, stigma clavate, capitate, bilobed or sublateral, when sublateral, not strongly differentiated from the style. Fruit a legume, coriaceous, with elastic dehiscence or straight and late dehiscent. Seeds laterally compressed, hilum crescent-shaped ( Vaz & Tozzi 2003 a, 2005, Ramírez-De Anda & Colín 2007, Torres-Colín 2009, Castellanos & Forero, 2019; Vaz & Santos 2023).