Lysiphyllum
Introduction '''''Lysiphyllum''''' is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It includes nine species of trees, semi-scandent shrubs, and lianas which range from India through Myanmar and Thailand to Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo, the Philippines, Java, the Lesser Sunda Islands, New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, and Australia. Typical habitats include seasonally-dry tropical forest and woodland, vine thickets, Brigalow and Gidgee scrubland, floodplains, alluvial flats, tidal forest, mangroves, river and stream banks, and occasionally dunes and coral islets. They can grow on diverse soils including calcareous, granitic, and basaltic.The genus belongs to subfamily Cercidoideae and tribe Bauhinieae. It belongs to the subfamily Cercidoideae. It was formerly treated as part of the genus ''Bauhinia'', but recent molecular phylogenetic analysis confirms that ''Lysiphyllum'' is a distinct genus from ''Bauhinia''.
Species ''Lysiphyllum'' comprises the following species:* ''Lysiphyllum binatum'' (Blanco) de Wit* ''Lysiphyllum carronii'' (F. Muell.) Pedley—northern beantree, red bauhinia* ''Lysiphyllum cunninghamii'' (Benth.) de Wit* ''Lysiphyllum dewitii'' (K. Larsen & S. S. Larsen) Bandyop. & Ghoshal* ''Lysiphyllum diphyllum'' (Buch.-Ham.) de Wit* ''Lysiphyllum gilvum'' (Bailey) Pedley* ''Lysiphyllum hookeri'' (F. Muell.) Pedley—white bauhinia, pegunny, mountain ebony, Queensland ebony, Hooker's bauhinia* ''Lysiphyllum strychnifolium'' (W. G. Craib) A. Schmitz* ''Lysiphyllum winitii'' (Craib) de Wit
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