Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk project (HEAR)

Bauhinia purpurea
(Fabaceae)
butterfly tree, orchid tree, pink butterfly tree, purple bauhinia, purple butterfly tree, purple orchid tree

image of Bauhinia purpurea image of Bauhinia purpurea image of Bauhinia purpurea
MORE IMAGES
HEAR home  >  species info  >  plants  >  Bauhinia purpurea (Fabaceae)
(hints)
Species description or overview Taxonomy & nomenclature Impacts Risk assessments
Images Books Full-text articles  

Let us know if you have suggestions for additional references to add to this page.

Species description or overview

Bauhinia purpurea information from PIER
Information on Bauhinia purpurea as relevant to Pacific Islands is provided by the Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk project (PIER).

Taxonomy & nomenclature

GRIN nomenclature info for Bauhinia purpurea
Nomenclatural information about Bauhinia purpurea is provided by USDA/ARS/NGRP/GRIN.

Bauhinia purpurea information from ITIS
The Integrated Taxonomic Information System ITIS provides authoritative taxonomic information on Bauhinia purpurea, as well as other plants, animals, fungi, and microbes of North America and the world.

IPNI nomenclature info for Bauhinia purpurea
Nomenclatural information about Bauhinia purpurea is provided by The International Plant Names Index (IPNI).

Impacts

Bauhinia purpurea (Fabaceae): species information from GCW
Information on Bauhinia purpurea as relevant to Pacific Islands is provided by the Global Compendium of Weeds (GCW).

Risk assessments

Bauhinia purpurea weed risk assessment for Hawaii-Pacific
Results of a weed risk assessment for Bauhinia purpurea for the Hawaii-Pacific region are presented by the Hawaii-Pacific Weed Risk Assessment team.

Weed risk assessment for Bauhinia purpurea for Florida (TNC) View info about Adobe Acrobat PDF format
A weed risk assessment for Bauhinia purpurea for Florida is presented by The Nature Conservancy (Doria Gordon et al.).

Images

Bauhinia purpurea images from PIER
Images of Bauhinia purpurea provided by the Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk project (PIER).

Books

A field guide to tropical and subtropical plants
Perry, Frances and Roy Hay. 1982. A field guide to tropical and subtropical plants. Ward Lock Limited, Great Britain. 136 pp. illus. ISBN: 0-442-26859-9.

Full-text articles

Control of non-native plants in natural areas of Florida
Langeland, K.A. and R.L. Stocker. (1997-)2001. Control of non-native plants in natural areas of Florida. SP 242, one of a series of the Department of Agronomy, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. First printed: 1997. Revised: April, 2001.

PDF icon Some documents posted on the HEAR website are in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. If your computer is not already set up to read these files, you can download the FREE Adobe Acrobat reader. You can set up most web browsers to automatically invoke this reader (as a "helper application" or "add-in") upon encountering documents of this type (refer to your browser's documentation for how to do this). download Acrobat reader

The Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk (HEAR) project was historically funded by the Pacific Basin Information Node (PBIN) of the National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) through PIERC (USGS) with support from HCSU (UH Hilo). More details are available online. Pacific Basin Information Node (PBIN) National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII)
[  species lists  ]    [  plants  ]    [  HEAR home  ]
Comments?  Questions?  Send e-mail to: webmaster@hear.org
The content of this page is based on information last generated on 15 October 2017 by PT. The template for this page was created on 15 March 2004 by EMS, and was last updated on 20 February 2006 by PT. Valid HTML 4.01!