identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
03D187FAFFF3B8311FBECD4832FC8618.text	03D187FAFFF3B8311FBECD4832FC8618.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Bauhinia Linnaeus 1753	<div><p>Bauhinia Linnaeus (1753: 374–375)</p><p>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 &amp; Tozzi 2003 a, 2005, Ramírez-De Anda &amp; Colín 2007, Torres-Colín 2009, Castellanos &amp; Forero, 2019; Vaz &amp; Santos 2023).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D187FAFFF3B8311FBECD4832FC8618	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Amorim, Daniele Dos Santos De;Pessoa, Edlley	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): 146-166, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.681.2.2, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.681.2.2
