<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?> <oai_dc:dc xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"> <dc:creator>Clark, Ruth P.</dc:creator> <dc:creator>Mackinder, Barbara A.</dc:creator> <dc:creator>Banks, Hannah</dc:creator> <dc:date>2017-10-20</dc:date> <dc:description>For much of the last thirty years, the caesalpinioid genus Bauhinia has been recognised by numerous authors as a broadly circumscribed, ecologically, morphologically and palynologically diverse pantropical taxon, comprising several subgenera. One of these, Bauhinia subg. Phanera has recently been reinstated at generic rank based on a synthesis of morphological and molecular data. Nevertheless, there remains considerable diversity within Phanera. Following a review of palynological and molecular studies of Phanera in conjunction with a careful re-examination of the morphological heterogeneity within the genus, we have found strong evidence that the species of Phanera subsect. Corymbosae are a natural group that warrant generic status. We describe here the genus Cheniella R.Clark &amp; Mackinder gen. nov. to accommodate them. It comprises 10 species and 3 subspecies, one newly described here. Generic characters include leaves that are simple and emarginate or bilobed; flowers with elongate hypanthia which are as long as or much longer than the sepals; pods that are glabrous, compressed, oblong, indehiscent or tardily dehiscent; and with numerous seeds, the seeds bearing an unusually long funicle extending most of the way around their circumference. A further distinctive floral character was found to be a fleshy disc on which the staminodes are mounted. An analysis carried out for this study reveals Cheniella to be characterised by a pollen type that is unique to the genus and previously unknown in the Leguminosae. Species diversity is richest in southern China, the full distribution extending westward to India and south- and eastward through Indochina into Malesia.</dc:description> <dc:identifier>10315</dc:identifier> <dc:identifier>10.5852/ejt.2017.360</dc:identifier> <dc:identifier>2118-9773</dc:identifier> <dc:publisher>European Journal of Taxonomy</dc:publisher> <dc:relation>plazi_docid:FFF6FF9A623BEE25753DFF93B625FFAE</dc:relation> <dc:relation>gbif_dataset:e349f0eb-9912-4da9-b0e0-4ed77d7dc216</dc:relation> <dc:relation>url:https://zenodo.org/record/3836482</dc:relation> <dc:rights>info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess</dc:rights> <dc:rights>Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International</dc:rights> <dc:rights>https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode</dc:rights> <dc:subject>kingdom: Plantae</dc:subject> <dc:subject>phylum: Tracheophyta</dc:subject> <dc:subject>phylum: Magnoliopsida</dc:subject> <dc:subject>phylum: Arthropoda</dc:subject> <dc:subject>class: Magnoliopsida</dc:subject> <dc:subject>class: Insecta</dc:subject> <dc:subject>order: Malpighiales</dc:subject> <dc:subject>order: Magnoliales</dc:subject> <dc:subject>order: Laurales</dc:subject> <dc:subject>order: Hymenoptera</dc:subject> <dc:subject>order: Cucurbitales</dc:subject> <dc:subject>order: Lepidoptera</dc:subject> <dc:subject>order: Cornales</dc:subject> <dc:subject>order: Arecales</dc:subject> <dc:subject>order: Asparagales</dc:subject> <dc:subject>order: Fabales</dc:subject> <dc:subject>family: Loasaceae</dc:subject> <dc:subject>family: Apidae</dc:subject> <dc:subject>family: Lauraceae</dc:subject> <dc:subject>family: Corynocarpaceae</dc:subject> <dc:subject>family: Megachilidae</dc:subject> <dc:subject>family: Arecaceae</dc:subject> <dc:subject>family: Ochnaceae</dc:subject> <dc:subject>family: Leguminosae</dc:subject> <dc:subject>family: Orchidaceae</dc:subject> <dc:subject>family: Linaceae</dc:subject> <dc:subject>family: Fabaceae</dc:subject> <dc:subject>genus: Cercis</dc:subject> <dc:subject>genus: Reinwardtia</dc:subject> <dc:subject>genus: Guihaia</dc:subject> <dc:subject>genus: Lysiphyllum</dc:subject> <dc:subject>genus: Tylosema</dc:subject> <dc:subject>genus: Gigasiphon</dc:subject> <dc:subject>genus: Brenierea</dc:subject> <dc:subject>genus: Adenolobus</dc:subject> <dc:subject>genus: Griffonia</dc:subject> <dc:subject>genus: Cheniella</dc:subject> <dc:subject>genus: Piliostigma</dc:subject> <dc:subject>genus: Schnella</dc:subject> <dc:subject>genus: Lasiobema</dc:subject> <dc:subject>genus: Phanera</dc:subject> <dc:subject>genus: Bauhinia</dc:subject> <dc:subject>genus: Barklya</dc:subject> <dc:subject>species: yunnanensis</dc:subject> <dc:subject>species: cheniae</dc:subject> <dc:subject>species: corymbosa</dc:subject> <dc:subject>species: wallichii</dc:subject> <dc:subject>species: glauca</dc:subject> <dc:subject>species: didyma</dc:subject> <dc:subject>species: japonica</dc:subject> <dc:subject>species: touranensis</dc:subject> <dc:subject>species: championii</dc:subject> <dc:subject>species: sect</dc:subject> <dc:subject>species: gracillima</dc:subject> <dc:subject>species: lakhonensis</dc:subject> <dc:subject>species: circumscription</dc:subject> <dc:subject>species: clemensiorum</dc:subject> <dc:subject>species: williamsii</dc:subject> <dc:subject>species: damiaoshanensis</dc:subject> <dc:subject>species: ovatifolia</dc:subject> <dc:subject>species: tenuiflora</dc:subject> <dc:subject>species: quinnanensis</dc:subject> <dc:subject>species: glabra</dc:subject> <dc:title>Cheniella gen. nov. (Leguminosae: Cercidoideae) from southern China, Indochina and Malesia</dc:title> <dc:type>info:eu-repo/semantics/article</dc:type> </oai_dc:dc>