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Phanera yunnanensis (Franch.) Wunderlin

Phanera; Yunnan bauhinia

Fabaceae · China South-Central, Myanmar +1

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Phanera yunnanensis, photograph Krzysztof Golik, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsPhanera yunnanensis, photograph Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia CommonsPhanera yunnanensis, photograph peganum from Small Dole, England, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsPhanera yunnanensis, photograph peganum from Small Dole, England, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsPhanera yunnanensis, photograph SAplants, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsPhanera yunnanensis, photograph SAplants, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons 9 photographs ›

Summary

Phanera yunnanensis (taxonomic synonym Bauhinia yunnanensis) is a plant with the common names Chinese orchid tree, Yunnan orchid or orchid vine, native to China (Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou) and W. Indochina. It is a perennial dicot described as a shrub or vine. It is in the Fabaceae family, has orchid-like flowers and has been introduced to Florida, in the USA.

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

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 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 56 of the 57 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.
NativeChina South-Central, Myanmar, Thailand · introduced: Queensland, Florida · 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 marker26.56, 100.176 · in the densest population, 44 records (77% of those in range)
Kew's description“scrambling shrub” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 57 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 29 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 22 km away. 5 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 56 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 inside the densest 2° block of the 57 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: Krzysztof Golik, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons; peganum from Small Dole, England, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2); SAplants, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2).

Other Phanera 13 in the reference

Phanera apertilobata Fabaceae Phanera aureifolia Phanera aureifolia Goldleaf Bauhinia Photo: CC BY, scallionsPhanera bidentata Phanera bidentata Fabaceae Photo: CC BY, Cheongweei GanPhanera championii Phanera championii Champion's Bauhinia Photo: CC BY, W Rao Phanera curtisii Fabaceae Phanera esquirolii Fabaceae Phanera khasiana Fabaceae Phanera kockiana Phanera kockiana Fabaceae Photo: CC BY, desertnaturalistPhanera scandens Phanera scandens Snake Climber Photo: CC BY-SA, deepachandran Phanera siamensis Fabaceae Phanera sirindhorniae Phanera sirindhorniae Fabaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, 阿橋 HQ Phanera strychnifolia Fabaceae all 14 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Bauhinia altefissa; Bauhinia collettii; Bauhinia diptera; Bauhinia yunnanensis; Lasiobema yunnanense and 2 more. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Fabaceae
Described by
(Franch.) Wunderlin
Native to
China South-Central, Myanmar, Thailand
Wild records
57 in range · 29 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; 1 record within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (1 at a botanic garden or arboretum; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 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 nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 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 15 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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