Piliostigma

{{Short description|Genus of legumes}}

{{Automatic taxobox

|image = Bauhinia malabarica.jpg

|image_caption = Piliostigma malabaricum

|display_parents = 2

|taxon = Piliostigma

|authority = Hochst. (1846), nom. cons.

|type_species = Piliostigma reticulatum

|type_species_authority = (DC.) Hochst.

|subdivision_ranks = Species

|subdivision = 5; see text

|subdivision_ref = [https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:329960-2 Piliostigma Hochst.] Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 14 September 2023.

|synonyms =

• Elayuna Raf. (1838)
• Locellaria Welw. (1859)
• Pileostigma {{small|Hochst. (1846), orth. var.}}

|synonyms_ref =

}}

Piliostigma is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It includes five species of small deciduous trees native to sub-Saharan Africa, the Indian subcontinent, Indochina, Java, the Philippines, and northern Australia. It belongs to the 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 the 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 is dioecious, with male and female flowers on separate plants.{{cite journal|doi=10.1002/tax.12207|title=Testing generic limits in Cercidoideae (Leguminosae): Insights from plastid and duplicated nuclear gene sequences|year=2020|last1=Sinou|first1=Carole|last2=Cardinal-Mcteague|first2=Warren|last3=Bruneau|first3=Anne|journal=Taxon|volume=69|pages=67–86}}