Fabaceae
Bauhinia

Bauhinia galpinii N.E.Br.

First published in Gard. Chron., ser. 3, 9: 728 (1891)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is S. Tropical & S. Africa. It is a liana or shrub and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Descriptions

Leguminosae, R.K. Brummitt, A.C. Chikuni, J.M. Lock and R.M. Polhill. Flora Zambesiaca 3:2. 2007

Morphology General Habit
Shrub 1–4 m high or scrambling up to 5 m or more.
Morphology Branches
Young branches puberulous.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves: petiole 0.5–1.5(2.3) cm; lamina 2–4.5(6.5) cm from base of midrib to tip of lobes, lobed for less than one third of its length and sometimes appearing only emarginate at the apex, the angle between the lobes commonly 90° or more but occasionally acute, cordate to truncate at the base, the lobes rounded or broadly obtusely pointed, glabrous above, the lower surface regularly covered with minute, usually appressed, greyish hairs and also with occasional scattered, much shorter, orange medifixed trichomes.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Inflorescences 2–10-flowered; axes densely puberulous to pubescent with appressed brown hairs; pedicels 2–5 mm, merging into the hypanthium.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Hypanthium
Hypanthium 1.7–3.2 cm, brown-puberulous to pubescent, obscurely to conspicuously longitudinally ribbed.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx 1.9–2.8 cm, brown puberulous to pubescent.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Petals bright red (variously described as scarlet, crimson, brick red, nasturtium, geranium red, salmon, or bluish red), 2.6–4.6 cm long, the limb suborbicular, cuneate to cordate at the base, and equalled or exceeded in length by the conspicuous claw, the undersurface furnished with orange trichomes like those on the leaf undersurface.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium
Stamens 3, staminodes 7, filiform, up to 6 mm long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Pistil
Ovary densely appressed-pubescent; stigma clavate.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pods dark reddish brown, 8–13 × 1.8–2.8 cm, ± linear-oblong, expanded along the upper margin into a flange up to 1 cm across, puberulent to pubescent when young but glabrescent later.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds dark reddish brown, c.11 × 8.5 mm.
[FZ]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Not Threatened
Ecology
Africa: Zambezian bushland and thicket, Tongaland-Pondoland regional transition zone; bushland and thicket
Morphology General Habit
Perennial, Climbing/Not climbing, Shrub/Tree
Vernacular
Bahninia Rouge, Bauhinia Rouge, Bois de Boeuf Rouge, Nasturtium Bauhinia, Pride Of De Kaap, Red Bauhinia, Red Butterfly Tree, Sabot Boeuf Rouge
[ILDIS]

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/146457277/146457279

Conservation
LC - least concern
[IUCN]

Extinction risk predictions for the world's flowering plants to support their conservation (2024). Bachman, S.P., Brown, M.J.M., Leão, T.C.C., Lughadha, E.N., Walker, B.E. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.19592

Conservation
Predicted extinction risk: not threatened. Confidence: confident
[AERP]

Uses

Use
Environmental
[ILDIS]

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
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  • Flora Zambesiaca

    • Flora Zambesiaca
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  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • IUCN Categories

    • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
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  • International Legume Database and Information Service

    • International Legume Database and Information Service (ILDIS) V10.39 Nov 2011
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Science Photographs

    • Copyright applied to individual images

  • World Checklist of Vascular plants (WCVP)

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0