Bauhinia forficata Link (1821:404)

Rauber, Cristiane Ritter, Lima, Laura Cristina Pires, Caxambu, Marcelo Galeazzi & Temponi, Lívia Godinho, 2021, Synopsis of Leguminosae from Iguaçu National Park, Paraná, Brazil, Phytotaxa 501 (2), pp. 245-280 : 253

4. Bauhinia forficata Link (1821:404) . ( Fig. 2A and B – Fig. 3D )

Distribution: It occurs in Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay ( Fortunato 1986) and in Brazil in the South, Southeast and Northeast regions ( Flora do Brasil 2020). In ParNa Iguaçu it occurs in the Céu Azul and Foz do Iguaçu areas.

Reproductive period: In ParNa Iguaçu it was found flowering in January and February and fruiting in February, March and June.

Diagnostic characteristics: Trees or shrubs with simple, bilobed leaflets with prickles at the base of the leaves, which differentiate this species from the other species of Leguminosae that occur in ParNa Iguaçu.

Conservation: Native-NE.

Selected examined material: BRAZIL. Paraná: Area 1, Céu Azul, 25 June 2019, (fr.), C.R. Rauber et al. 406 ( UNOP); Area 3, Foz do Iguaçu , 25 February 2019, (fl., fr.), C.R. Rauber et al. 327 ( UNOP) .

Figures

FIGURE 2. A and B: Bauhinia forficata: A: flower; B: fruit; C and D: Calliandra foliolosa: C: branch with flower; D: flower; E: Cenostigma pluviosum, inflorescence; F: Centrosema virginianum, flower; G: Cochliasanthus caracalla, flower; H: Cratylia intermedia, inflorescence and fruit; I: Crotalaria micans, flower; J: Crotalaria pallida, inflorescence; K and L: Dahlstedtia muehlbergiana: K: branch with inflorescence; L: flower. (A–E; H–L Rauber CR 2018; F Wink, JG 2019; G Hentz-Junior, EJ 2019)

FIGURE 3. A: Abarema langsdorffii, inflorescence; B and C: Apuleia leiocarpa: B: flower; C. gynoecium; D: Bauhinia forficata, branch with inflorescence; E: Bauhinia longifolia, inflorescence; F: Centrosema virginianum, flower G: Chamaecrista nictitans, branch with inflorescence; H: Cochliasanthus caracalla, fruit; I: Copaifera langsdorffii, branch with fruit; J: Cyclolobium brasiliense, branch with fruit.