Cercideae

Cercideae
Bauhinia variegata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Rosids
Order:	Fabales
Family:	Fabaceae
Subfamily:	Caesalpinioideae
Tribe:	Cercideae
Genera
Adenolobus Barklya Baudouinia †Bauhcis Bauhinia Cercis Gigasiphon Griffonia Lysiphyllum Piliostigma Tylosema

Cercideae is a tribe in the pea family, Fabaceae. Well-known members include Cercis (redbuds), including species widely cultivated as ornamental trees in the United States and Europe, Bauhinia, widely cultivated as an ornamental tree in tropical Asia, and Tylosema esculentum (Maramba bean), a traditional food crop in Africa.

The tribe occupies a basal position within the Fabaceae, diverging before, for example, the split between the Faboideae, the Mimosoideae, and genera such as Senna.^[1] It may share this position with the tribe Detarieae.^[1] Sometimes, some authors mistake it for a subfamily, for instance, Souza & Lorenzi (2005)[1], a widely used and cited textbook by Brazilian botanists and biologists.

Genera

• Adenolobus
• Barklya
• Baudouinia
• †Bauhcis (Oligocene fossil from Mexico)^[2]
• Bauhinia
• Cercis (redbuds)
• Gigasiphon
• Griffonia
• Lysiphyllum
• Piliostigma
• Tylosema (4 species exhibiting heterostyly)

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Wojciechowski, M. F.; Lavin, M.; Sanderson, M. J. (2004). "A phylogeny of legumes (Leguminosae) based on analysis of the plastid matK gene resolves many well-supported subclades within the family". American Journal of Botany 91 (11): 1846–62. doi:10.3732/ajb.91.11.1846. PMID 21652332. 
2. ^ Calvillo-Canadell, L; Cevallos-Ferriz, Sergio R.S (2002). "Bauhcis moranii gen. et sp. nov. (Cercideae, Caesalpinieae), an Oligocene plant from Tepexi de Rodríguez, Puebla, Mex., with leaf architecture similar to Bauhinia and Cercis". Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 122 (3–4): 171. doi:10.1016/S0034-6667(02)00135-5.