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Bauhinia rufa

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(Bongard) Steudel

Common Names

• Hong bei ye yang ti jia (Pinyin)

Geographical Habitats

• Bolivia
• Distrito Federal
• Mato Grosso
• Minas Gerais
• Goiás
• Sao Paulo
• Pará
• Paraná - Brazil
• Paraguay
• Peru

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• riverside
• disturbed forest edge
• scrubland

Flowering Times

• Feb
• Mar
• May
• Aug
• Nov (Bolivia) Mar (Brazil) Jan (Paraguay) Feb (Peru)

Fruiting Times

• Oct
• Dec (Bolivia)

Liana, shrub or tree with coriaceous leaves to 150mm x 125mm. Terminal racemes of fragrant white or cream flowers with bracts to 8mm long, rufo-tomentose calyx to 20mm long. Fruit a legume to 200mm long x 16mm wide, reddish-hairy.

Further References

• Mobot
• FB
• The Plant List 2