Bauhinia variegata L.

FABACEAE

- Pea family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

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Name: Bauhinia variegata L.

Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl. 1: 375. 1753 [1 May 1753]
Rank: species

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Common names

U.S. name: Mountain ebony

English name: mountain-ebony

English name: orchidtree

French name: arbre de Saint-Thomas

German name: buntfarbene Bauhinie

Grown habit: Tree, Shrub
Duration: Perennial

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TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Rosidae
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Genus: Bauhinia
Species:

Page counter: 405 ( AVG: 223.05 / 292.019 )

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Bauhinia variegata
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Villa de San Bartolomé de Tirajana, Parque Botanico de Maspalomas, Gran Canaria, Spagna, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Bauhinia variegata
Steve Hurst - USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database - Not copyrighted image

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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (CA, FL, LA, TX), USA+ (Puerto Rico)

Distributional map for Bauhinia variegata L.
Map for Bauhinia variegata L.
(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA

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More species:
1) Bauhinia x blakeana S.T. Dunn [2056]
2) Bauhinia yunnanensis Franch. [304]
3) Bazzania denudata (Torr. ex Gottsche & Lindenb. & Nees) Trevis. [175]
4) Beadlea cranichoides (Griseb.) Small [147]
5) Beckmannia eruciformis (L.) Host ssp. baicalensis (Kusnez.) Hultén [126]
6) Beckmannia syzigachne (Steud.) Fernald var. uniflora (Scribn. ex A. Gray) B. Boivin [203]
7) Befaria racemosa Vent., orth. var. [156]
8) Belamcanda chinensis (L.) DC. [968]
9) Beloperone guttata Brandegee [221]
10) Benzoin aestivale (L.) Nees [89]

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