Three new combinations in the genus Phanera (Fabaceae: Cercidoideae) including the lectotypification of Bauhinia strychnifolia Author Jiang, Kai-Wen Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China & South China National Botanical Garden, Guangzhou 510650, China Author Gu, Shi-Ran Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China & South China National Botanical Garden, Guangzhou 510650, China Author Li, Shi-Jin Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China & South China National Botanical Garden, Guangzhou 510650, China Author Tu, Tie-Yao Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China & South China National Botanical Garden, Guangzhou 510650, China Author Zhang, Dian-Xiang Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China & South China National Botanical Garden, Guangzhou 510650, China text Phytotaxa 2023 2023-02-09 584 1 52 54 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.584.1.5 journal article 10.11646/phytotaxa.584.1.5 1179-3163 7624077 1. Phanera bohniana (H.Y.Chen) K.W.Jiang, S.R.Gu & T.Y.Tu , comb. nov. ≡ Bauhinia bohniana H.Y. Chen (1938: 129) Type : — CHINA . Yangtze watershed , Prefectural District of Likiang [Lijiang], eastern slopes of Likiang [Lijiang] Snow Range, at Takoo [Daju], May to October 1922 , J. F. Rock 3905 (see notes) [ holotype A00059758 (image!); isotypes E00313591 (image!), NY00038224 (image!), US00001263 !] . Distribution: —Endemic to China , it occurs in Lijiang, in the province Yunnan . Notes: —Wundelin et al. (1987) placed Bauhinia bohniana in a monotypic section of subg. Phanera , viz. sect. Pseudobauhinia Wunderlin, K. Larsen & S. S. Larsen (1987: 25). They also indicated in their discussion that although B. bohniana differs from other tendrilled-lianescent species of subg. Phanera in its shrubby habit without tendrils, it is clearly a derivative of subg. Phanera due to the similarity in flower morphology ( viz. fertile stamens 3 and staminodes 6 or 7). The phylogenetic results based on nuclear ITS sequences in Hao et al. (2003) also supported that this species is a member of subg. Phanera . However, the phylogenetic results based on the plastid trn L-F region in Sinou et al. (2009) showed that B. bohniana was nested within the clade of Bauhinia s. s . , Sinou et al. (2009) thus argued that B. bohniana should be better considered as a member of Bauhinia s. s . We traced the voucher specimens used in both studies and confirmed that the sample of Y.-F. Deng 14097 (IBSC) used by Hao et al. (2003) was correctly identified, whereas A. W. Douglas & S. Lewis 766 (MEL) used by Sinou et al . (2009) was a misidentification of Bauhinia brachycarpa Wallich ex Bentham in Miquel (1852: 261) of Bauhinia s. s. Therefore, here we make the new combination to transfer B. bohniana to Phanera . In the protologue of Bauhinia bohniana , Chen (1938) cited the holotype as Rock ‘2905’ rather than ‘3095’ , we traced the type specimens of B. bohniana , and confirmed this should be a typo, and thus it is corrected here.