''Piliostigma'' is a genus of

flowering plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (). The term angiosperm is derived from the Ancient Greek, Greek words (; 'container, vessel') and (; 'seed'), meaning that the seeds are enclosed with ...

s in the

legume Legumes are plants in the pea family Fabaceae (or Leguminosae), or the fruit or seeds of such plants. When used as a dry grain for human consumption, the seeds are also called pulses. Legumes are grown agriculturally, primarily for human consum ...

family,

Fabaceae Fabaceae () or Leguminosae,International Code of Nomen ...

. It includes five species of small deciduous trees native to sub-Saharan Africa, the Indian subcontinent, Indochina, Java, the Philippines, and northern Australia. It belongs to the subfamily

Cercidoideae Cercidoideae is a subfamily in the pea family, Fabaceae. Well-known members include ''Cercis'' (redbuds), including species widely cultivated as ornamental trees in the United States and Europe, '' Bauhinia'', widely cultivated as an ornamental t ...

and the tribe Bauhinieae. It is

dioecious Dioecy ( ; ; adj. dioecious, ) is a characteristic of certain species that have distinct unisexual individuals, each producing either male or female gametes, either directly (in animals) or indirectly (in seed plants). Dioecious reproduction is ...

, with male and female flowers on separate plants.

Species

''Piliostigma'' comprises the following species: * '' Piliostigma foveolatum'' (Dalzell) Thoth. * ''

Piliostigma malabaricum ''Piliostigma malabaricum'' is a small (sometimes ornamental) tree species in the family Fabaceae.ILDIS World Database of ...

'' (Roxb.) Benth.—purple orchid tree * '' Piliostigma reticulatum'' (DC.) Hochst. * '' Piliostigma thonningii'' (Schum.) Milne-Redh. * '' Piliostigma tortuosum'' (Collett & Hemsl.) Thoth. Some other species often placed here are nowadays usually assigned their traditional genus ''

Bauhinia ''Bauhinia'' () is a large genus of flowering plants in the subfamily Cercidoideae and tribe Bauhinieae, in the large flowering plant family Fabaceae, with a pantropical distribution. The genus was named after the Bauhin brothers Gaspard and ...

'' again.

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* * {{Taxonbar, from=Q7194039 Cercidoideae Fabaceae genera Dioecious plants Taxa named by Christian Ferdinand Friedrich Hochstetter