Lysiphyllum

Lysiphyllum^[2][1] is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It includes nine species of trees, semi-scandent shrubs, and lianas which range from India through Southeast Asia to Australasia. Typical habitats include seasonally-dry tropical forest and woodland, vine thickets, Brigalow and Gidgee scrubland, floodplains, alluvial flats, tidal forest, mangroves, river and stream banks, and occasionally dunes and coral islets. They can grow on diverse soils including calcareous, granitic, and basaltic.^[3]

Lysiphyllum
Lysiphyllum hookeri
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Fabales
Family:	Fabaceae
Tribe:	Bauhinieae
Genus:	Lysiphyllum (Benth.) de Wit
Type species
Lysiphyllum cunninghamii (Benth.) de Wit (1956)[1][2]
Species[3]
9; see text

The genus belongs to subfamily Cercidoideae^[4] and tribe Bauhinieae.^[5] It belongs to the subfamily Cercidoideae. It was formerly treated as part of the genus Bauhinia, but recent molecular phylogenetic analysis confirms that Lysiphyllum is a distinct genus from Bauhinia.^{[5] [6][7][8][9]}

Species

Lysiphyllum comprises the following species:^{[3][10][11][12]}

• Lysiphyllum binatum (Blanco) de Wit
• Lysiphyllum carronii (F. Muell.) Pedley—northern beantree, red bauhinia
• Lysiphyllum cunninghamii (Benth.) de Wit
• Lysiphyllum dewitii (K. Larsen & S. S. Larsen) Bandyop. & Ghoshal
• Lysiphyllum diphyllum (Buch.-Ham.) de Wit
• Lysiphyllum gilvum (Bailey) Pedley
• Lysiphyllum hookeri (F. Muell.) Pedley—white bauhinia, pegunny, mountain ebony, Queensland ebony, Hooker's bauhinia
• Lysiphyllum strychnifolium (W. G. Craib) A. Schmitz
• Lysiphyllum winitii (Craib) de Wit