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Piliostigma
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Piliostigma

Piliostigma is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. 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 and the tribe Bauhinieae. It is dioecious, with male and female flowers on separate plants.

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4 branches of this genus, most-observed first

camels-foot monkeybread

speciesPiliostigma thonningii

Camel's Foot

speciesPiliostigma reticulatum

Piliostigma malabaricum

speciesPiliostigma malabaricum

Piliostigma foveolatum

speciesPiliostigma foveolatum

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 576209.