''Piliostigma'' is a genus of
flowering plant
Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. They include all forbs (flowering plants without a woody stem), grasses and grass-like plants, a vast majority of ...
s in the
legume
A legume () is a plant in the family Fabaceae (or Leguminosae), or the fruit or seed of such a plant. When used as a dry grain, the seed is also called a pulse. Legumes are grown agriculturally, primarily for human consumption, for livestock fo ...
family,
Fabaceae. 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 tr ...
and the tribe Bauhinieae.
It is
dioecious
Dioecy (; ; adj. dioecious , ) is a characteristic of a species, meaning that it has distinct individual organisms (unisexual) that produce male or female gametes, either directly (in animals) or indirectly (in seed plants). Dioecious reproducti ...
, with male and female flowers on separate plants.
Species
''Piliostigma'' comprises the following species:
* ''
Piliostigma foveolatum''
(Dalzell) Thoth.
* ''
Piliostigma malabaricum''
(Roxb.) Benth.—purple orchid tree
* ''
Piliostigma reticulatum''
(DC.) Hochst.
* ''
Piliostigma thonningii
''Piliostigma thonningii'' is a species of flowering plants in the legume
A legume () is a plant in the family Fabaceae (or Leguminosae), or the fruit or seed of such a plant. When used as a dry grain, the seed is also called a pulse. Legum ...
''
(Schum.) Milne-Redh.
* ''
Piliostigma tortuosum''
(Collett & Hemsl.) Thoth.
References
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Cercidoideae
Fabaceae genera
Dioecious plants
Taxa named by Christian Ferdinand Friedrich Hochstetter