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15. Bauhinia yunnanensis Franch.wfo-0000197050

Pl. Delav.: 190. 1890; Craib in Fl. Siam. En. 1: 532. 1928; K. &.S.S.Larsen, Nat. Hist. Bull. Siam Soc. 25: 19. 1973. Fig. 4: 6–7.


Accepted Name : Phanera yunnanensis (Franch.) Wunderlin
Phytoneuron 19: 1. 2011.



Synonyms & Citations :

Bauhinia diptera Coll. & Hemsl., J. L. Soc. 28: 52. 1890; Prain, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 66 (2): 501. 1897 non Blume ex Miq. 1850.
Bauhinia collettii Prain, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 66 (2): 502 in nota.
Bauhinia altefissa Lévl., Fl. Kouy-Tcheou: 226. 1914–15.


Description : Slender tendrilled climber or shrub; all vegetative parts glabrous. Leaves consisting of 2 free, bliquely ovate leaflets with broadly rounded ends, up to 6 by 3 cm, 4-nerved. Stipules lanceolate, 3 mm long. Petioles slender up to 3 cm. Racemes lax, lateral, elongated, unbranched, ca 15-flowered. Pedicels 2 cm. Bracts subulale, 2 mm; bracteoles similar, smaller, inserted at about the middle of the pedicel. Buds glabrous, oblong, ca 8 mm long. Receptacle tubular, as long as the bud. Sepals splitting into 2 free segments. Petals white to pinkish, hairy at apex, subequal, narrowly obovate, 2 cm long including the 5 mm long claw. Stamens 3 fertile, filaments 2.5 cm long; anthers 3 mm long; staminodes 7, 6–7 mm long. Ovary glabrous, 20 mm long including the 5 mm long stipe; stigma small, oblique. Pods dehiscent, rugulose, linear, up to 15 by 1.5 cm, acute at both ends, often slightly falcate. Seeds ca 10, flat, orbicular, 6 mm diam.


Thailand : NORTHERN: Chiang Mai (Mae Chaem), Lamphun (Mae Ko).


Distribution : China (Yunnan – type, Szechuan), Burma.


Ecology : In mixed deciduous forests, 400–800 m alt.


Vernacular : Sieo phae (เสี้ยวแพะ)(Northern); klet pla mong (เกล็ดปลามง)(Shan-Northen)


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