Phanera ornata is a species of 'monkey ladder' lianas in the subfamily Cercidoideae and the tribe Bauhinieae, the genus having been separated from Bauhinia. Under its synonym, Bauhinia ornata, its Vietnamese name is "móng bò diện". Distribution records exist from Assam, S. China and Indochina, where wild plants grow primarily in the tropical forest biome.<ref name = POWO>POWO: Phanera ornata (Kurz) Thoth.</ref> Accepted infraspecific namesPlants of the World Online lists: P. ornata subsp. mizoramensis (Bandyop., B.D. Sharma & Thoth.) Bandyop., P.P. Ghoshal & M.K. Pathak - Assam (Mizoram) only P. ornata subsp. ornata (Kurz) Thoth. P. ornata var. balansae (Gagnep.) Bandyop., P.P. Ghoshal & M.K. Pathak P. ornata var. burmanica (K. Larsen & S.S. Larsen) Bandyop., P.P. Ghoshal & M.K. Pathak P. ornata var. kerrii (Gagnep.) Bandyop., P.P. Ghoshal & M.K. Pathak (synonym P. o. var. subumbellata) P. ornata var. ornata'' (Kurz) Thoth. References External links Images at iNaturalist Cercidoideae Flora of Indo-China Fabales of Asia