Lysiphyllum

{{Short description|Genus of legumes}}

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|image = Lysiphyllum hookeri flowers and foliage.jpg

|image_caption = Lysiphyllum hookeri

|taxon = Lysiphyllum

|authority = (Benth.) de Wit

|type_species = Lysiphyllum cunninghamii

|type_species_authority = (Benth.) de Wit (1956)

|subdivision_ranks = Species

|subdivision = 9; see text

|subdivision_ref = [https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:22849-1 Lysiphyllum (Benth.) de Wit. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 5 May 2023.

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Lysiphyllum{{cite Q|Q94139373|pages=431}}{{Cite web|title=Lysiphyllum {{!}} International Plant Names Index|url=https://www.ipni.org/n/102486-3|access-date=2021-01-22|website=www.ipni.org}} 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 Southeast Asia to Australasia. 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{{cite journal | author = The Legume Phylogeny Working Group (LPWG). | year = 2017 | title = A new subfamily classification of the Leguminosae based on a taxonomically comprehensive phylogeny | journal = Taxon | volume = 66 | issue = 1 | pages = 44–77 | doi = 10.12705/661.3| doi-access = free | hdl = 10568/90658 | hdl-access = free }} and tribe Bauhinieae.{{cite journal | title = The genus Bauhinia s.l. (Leguminosae): a phylogeny based on the plastid trnL–trnF region | year = 2009 |vauthors=Sinou C, Forest F, Lewis GP, Bruneau A | journal = Botany | volume = 87 | issue = 10 | pages = 947–960 | doi = 10.1139/B09-065 }} 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.

{{Cite web | url= http://www.kew.org/science-research-data/lowo/TaxonomicView/SubFamily/Tribe/Genus/index.htm?kew_lowo_accepted_name_path=Lysiphyllum | title= Lysiphyllum | work= Legumes of the World | location= London, England | publisher= Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew | format= Online, at kew.org | access-date= 14 May 2014 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140515031433/http://www.kew.org/science-research-data/lowo/TaxonomicView/SubFamily/Tribe/Genus/index.htm?kew_lowo_accepted_name_path=Lysiphyllum | archive-date= 15 May 2014 | url-status= dead }}{{cite journal |vauthors=Bruneau A, Forest F, Herendeen PS, Klitgaard BB, Lewis GP | year = 2001 | title = Phylogenetic Relationships in the Caesalpinioideae (Leguminosae) as Inferred from Chloroplast trnL Intron Sequences | journal = Syst Bot | volume = 26 | issue = 3 | pages = 487–514 | url = http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.1043/0363-6445-26.3.487 | doi = 10.1043/0363-6445-26.3.487 | doi-broken-date = 12 July 2025 }}{{cite book |vauthors=Herendeen PS, Bruneau A, Lewis GP | year = 2003 | chapter = Phylogenetic relationships in caesalpinioid legumes: a preliminary analysis based on morphological and molecular data |veditors=Klitgaard BB, Bruneau A | title = Advances in Legume Systematics, Part 10: Higher Level Systematics | pages = 37–62 | publisher = Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew | isbn = 978-1-84246-054-2 }}{{cite journal |vauthors=Bruneau A, Mercure M, Lewis GP, Herendeen PS | year = 2008 | title = Phylogenetic patterns and diversification in the caesalpinioid legumes | journal = Botany | volume = 86 | issue = 7 | pages = 697–718 | doi=10.1139/b08-058}}