Historically, many authors of regional accounts of the Leguminosae (Fabaceae) tribe Cercideae divided the caesalpinioid
genus Bauhinia sens. lat. into several segregate genera including the genus Phanera. However, during the last fifty years,
Bauhinia has more often been recognised as a broadly circumscribed taxon with Phanera reduced to a subgenus of
Bauhinia sens. lat