Cheniella glauca is a species of scandent plants in the subfamily Cercidoideae and the tribe Bauhinieae. It was first described in 1852 by George Bentham, with its basionym in genus Phanera,Bentham G (1852) Plantae Junghuhnianae 2: 265., this species also has been placed in genus Bauhinia, before the erection of Cheniella in 2017.Clark RP, Mackinder BA, Banks H (2017) Cheniella gen. nov. (Leguminosae: Cercidoideae) from southern China, Indochina and Malesia. European Journal of Taxonomy 360: 24. DOI
This species is recorded from: Bangladesh to China (Hong Kong), Indochina, and western Malesia. It is a climbing shrub and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome.Plants of the World Online: Cheniella glauca (Benth.) R.Clark & Mackinder (retrieved 18 September 2026) It may be grown as an ornamental plant.
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