Phanera bidentata; photograph Cheongweei Gan, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF

CC BYCheongweei Gan, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF

Phanera bidentata (Jack) Benth.

Fabaceae · Malaya, Sumatera

No habitat climate

About the genus · Phanera

Phanera is a genus of flowering plants in the legume subfamily Cercidoideae and the tribe Bauhinieae. This genus differs from Bauhinia in being vines or lianas, generally with tendrils and a lobed rather than spathaceous calyx, and from Schnella in having only three fertile stamens rather than ten, and being native to the Indomalayan realm and the Australasian realm rather than the Americas. The subsection Corymbosae was recently segregated into a new genus, Cheniella. More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Phanera", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 18 of the 20 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.

Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.

NativeMalaya, Sumatera · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).

Map marker4.65, 102.117 · in the densest population, 8 records (40% of those in range)

Kew's description“climbing shrub” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here

Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 20 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 19 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker in the same place. 7 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 18 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.

How this section is made

The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 20 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Other Phanera 13 in the reference

Phanera apertilobata Fabaceae

Phanera aureifolia Goldleaf Bauhinia Photo: CC BY, scallions

Phanera championii Champion's Bauhinia Photo: CC BY, W Rao Phanera curtisii Fabaceae Phanera esquirolii Fabaceae Phanera khasiana Fabaceae

Phanera kockiana Fabaceae Photo: CC BY, desertnaturalist

Phanera scandens Snake Climber Photo: CC BY-SA, deepachandran Phanera siamensis Fabaceae

Phanera sirindhorniae Fabaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, 阿橋 HQ Phanera strychnifolia Fabaceae

Phanera vahlii Fabaceae Photo: CC BY, T R Shankar Raman all 14 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Bauhinia bidentata; Bauhinia bidentata var. bidentata; Bauhinia scortechinii. (GBIF Backbone)

GBIF POWO IPNI WFO Wikidata

The record

Family

Fabaceae

Described by

(Jack) Benth.

Native to

Malaya, Sumatera

Wild records

20 in range · 19 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22

GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22

GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22

GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22

WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04

GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21

Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope

Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22

Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22

iNaturalist taxon inat.taxon not asked

iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked

iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked

GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22

Wikimedia Commons commons nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22

OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 11 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.