Abarema

Abarema
Abarema cochliocarpos
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Caesalpinioideae
Clade: Mimosoid clade
Genus: Abarema
Pittier
Species

3; see text

Abarema is a neotropical genus in the family Fabaceae. It is native to Brazil and Venezuela. Most of the species can be found in the Amazon Basin and the Guyana Highlands. They have a deep-green fernlike foliage, with bipinnately compound leaves.

Taxonomy

In older works, the entire genus is usually included within Pithecellobium. Following the 1996 revision, about 45 species were accepted. This genus has been proven to be polyphyletic under its previous circumscription. As a result of the genetic evidence, the genera Jupunba and Punjuba were separated from Abarema, and most of those species are now placed in Jupunba and Punjuba.

Species

Plants of the World Online currently accepts three species.

Status uncertain

Formerly placed here

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 3 4 Abarema Pittier. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 25 March 2025.
  2. ↑ Barneby & Grimes (1996), ILDIS (2005)
  3. ↑ Soares, M. V. B., Guerra, E., Morim, M. P., & Iganci, J. R. V. (2021). "Reinstatement and recircumscription of Jupunba and Punjuba (Fabaceae) based on phylogenetic evidence." Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 196(4), 456-479.
  4. ↑ WFO (2025). Abarema agropecuaria Barneby & J.W.Grimes. World Flora Online. Retrieved 26 March 2025.
  5. ↑ WFO (2025). Abarema ricoae Barneby & J.W.Grimes. World Flora Online. Retrieved 27 March 2025.
  6. ↑ "Archidendron bigeminum (L.) I.C.Nielsen". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  7. ↑ "Archidendron grandiflorum (Benth.) I.C.Nielsen". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  8. ↑ "Archidendron hendersonii (F.Muell.) I.C.Nielsen". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  9. ↑ "Jupunba idiopoda (S.F.Blake) M.V.B.Soares, M.P.Morim & Iganci". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 17 January 2022.

References

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