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Bauhinia monandra Kurz

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HIGHER TAXON: Cercideae

GENUS: Bauhinia L.

Bauhinia monandra Kurz [Preferred name]
    Bauhinia kappleri Sagot {Synonym}
    Bauhinia krugii Urb. {Synonym}
    Bauhinia porosa Baill. {Synonym}
    Bauhinia punctiflora Baker {Synonym}
    Bauhinia richardiana Voight {Synonym}
    Bauhinia subrotundifolia sensu auct. {Misapplied}
    Caspareopsis monandra (Kurz)Britton & Rose {Synonym}
    Caspariopsis monandra (Kurz)Britton & Rose {Orthographic variant}

  
VERNACULAR NAME:
  Bagnaka [3402]; Banaka [3402]; Banakafotsy [3402]; Butterfly Flower [3602]; Hotrombengy [3402]; Hotronaomby [3402]; Jerusalem Date [3602]; Kitrombaingy [3402]; Kobonila [4751]; Kotonomby [3402]; Ontrombengy [3402]; Pine [2968]; Pine Fua Lola [2266]; Pink Butterfly Tree [2264, 2968]; Trokombengy [3402]; Vaksotro [3402]; Zondala [3402]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Angola (I) [110]; Burundi (I) [8]; Ghana (I) [8]; Ivory Coast (I) [8]; Liberia (I) [8]; Mali (I) [561]; Nigeria (I) [8]; Sierra Leone (I) [8]; Somalia (I) [125]; Tanzania (I) [8]; Zaire (I) [113]; Zambia (I) [28]
  Asia
Bangladesh (I) [3383]; Burma (U) [1915]; India (I) [1914, 3019, 3027, 3118]; Karnataka [1914]; Maharashtra [3019]; Tamil Nadu [3027]; West Bengal [3118]; Indonesia (U) [3001]; Malaysia (U) [3001]; Myanmar (U) [1914, 3060]; Sri Lanka (I) [2023]; Thailand (U) [2002]; Vietnam (U) [2002]
  Australasia
Papua New Guinea (U) [3001]
  Caribbean
Caribbean-TRP (U) [1409, 1430, 1431, 1606]
  Central America
Mexico (U) [1188]; Panama (U) [1224]
  Indian Ocean
Madagascar (N) [3402]; Rodrigues (I) [3060]
  North America
United States (U) [1361, 1431]
  Pacific Ocean
Cook Is (I) [2265]; Fiji (I) [2264]; Niue (I) [2266]; Northern Marianas (I) [2235]; Society Is (I) [2265, 2968]; Tonga (I) [2265]
  South America
Brazil (U) [1414]; Colombia (U) [1606]; French Guiana (U) [1408]

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Cultivated [113];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [113, 1935, 2002, 2023, 3001, 3402, 3652] ; Illustration [3402, 3652]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Not climbing [3001] [3402] ; Further editing: 2004-2005 Novoselova MS, 2005-04 Seneviratne GI (Sinhala & Tamil Names) ; Habit: Shrub [3001] [3402], Tree [3001] [3402] ; Lifespan: Perennial [3001] [3402] ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM, 1988 (Americas) Zarucchi JL, 1990 (New Zealand & Pacific) Horn P, 1993 (Indian Ocean) Lock JM & Ireland H, 1994 (Indo-China) Lock JM & Heald J, 1999-05 Heald J, 2003-11 (Madagascar) Novoselova MS extract [34

  
USES:
  Environmental [28, 1915, 2023, 2264, 2265, 2968, 3001]

  
NOTES:
  Origin unknown, probably neotropical, cultivated & escaped. [2002]
  Only known in cultivation; origin uncertain. Possibly neotropical. [3001]
  Cultivated on the Mascarenes. [1915]
  Original native area uncertain, but perhaps America. [1915]

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

8.

  Lock, J.M., 1985
    Specimen in Herb.Kew

28.

  White, F., 1962
    Forest Flora of Northern Rhodesia.

110.

  Torre, A.R.da & Hillcoat, D., 1958
    Caesalpinoideae.In:Consp.Fl.Angolensis 2.Exell & Mendonca

113.

  Robyns, W.(Ed.), 1952
    Flore du Congo Belge,Vol.3. Mimosoideae, Caesalpinoideae

125.

  Roti-Michelozzi, G., 1957
    Webbia 13:133-228.Adum.Fl.Aeth. Caesalpinoideae excl.Cassia

561.

  Boudet, G. & Lebrun, J.-P., 1986
    Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Mali.IEMVPT Et.+Syn.16.

1188.

  Cowan, C.P., 1983
    Listados Floristicos de Mexico 1:47-61 Flora de Tabasco

1224.

  D'Arcy, W.G., 1987
    Monogr.Syst.Botany Missouri Botanical Garden. Flora Panama.

1361.

  Isely, D., 1975
    Mem.New York Bot.Gard.25(2):1-228 Legum. of the U.S.: II.

1408.

  Lemee, A., 1952
    Flore de la Guyane francaise 2:36-162 Legumineuses

1409.

  Leon, H. & Alain, H., 1951
    Flora de Cuba 2:224-367 Leguminosas

1414.

  Lewis, G.P., 1987
    Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 369 pp Legumes of Bahia

1606.

  Schery, R.W., 1951
    Ann.Missouri Bot.Gard.38(1):1-94 Leguminosae-Caesalpinioidea

1914.

  Sanjappa, M., 1992
    Legumes of India. Dehra Dun: Bishen Singh Mahendra...

1915.

  Polhill, R, M., 1990
    Legumineuses.In:Flore des Mascareignes,Vol 80.J. Bosser et a

1935.

  Larsen, K. et al, 1980
    In: Flore du Cambodge, du Laos et du Vietnam, Vol 18.A.

2002.

  Larsen, K. et al., 1984
    Flora of Thailand, Vol 4 Part 1.In: T.Smithinand & K.Larsen

2023.

  Rudd, V.E., 1991
    Flora of Ceylon 7: 34-107. Caesalpinioideae

2235.

  Fosberg, F.R. et al., 1979
    A Geographical Checklist of the Micronesian Dicotyledonae

2264.

  Parham, J.W., 1972
    Plants of the Fiji Islands

2265.

  Horn, P.E., 1988
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2266.

  Sykes, W., 1979
    Flora of Niue

2968.

  Welsh, S.L., 1998
    Flora Societensis

3001.

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    Flora Malesiana I, 12,2:409-784.Caesalpiniaceae.

3019.

  Cooke, T., 1903
    The Flora of the Presidency of Bombay Vol.1

3027.

  Nair, N.C. & Henry, A.N., 1983
    Flora of Tamil Nadu, India Vol.1

3060.

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    Plant Red Data Book for Rodrigues

3118.

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3383.

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3402.

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    The Leguminosae of Madagascar. RBG Kew.

3602.

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    Manual of cultivated plants. New York.

3652.

  Soe, M., 1974
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3890.

  Lock, J.M. & Ford, 2004
    Legumes of Malesia: A check-list. RBG Kew.

4751.

  Senaratna, L.K., 2001
    A check list of the flowering plants of Sri Lanka. Colombo.

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