Fabaceae

Pithecellobium Mart.

First published in Flora 20(2 Beibl.): 114 (1837), nom. cons.
This genus is accepted
The native range of this genus is Mexico to Brazil, Florida to Caribbean.

Distribution

Doubtfully present in:

Suriname

Native to:

Aruba, Bahamas, Belize, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Puerto Rico, Southwest Caribbean, Trinidad-Tobago, Turks-Caicos Is., Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Windward Is.

Introduced into:

Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Benin, Borneo, Brazil Southeast, Burkina, Burundi, Cambodia, Caroline Is., Chad, Chagos Archipelago, China South-Central, China Southeast, Comoros, Djibouti, East Himalaya, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, French Guiana, Gambia, Ghana, Hainan, Hawaii, India, Iraq, Jawa, Kenya, Laos, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Marianas, Marshall Is., Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Nepal, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Nigeria, Ogasawara-shoto, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Rodrigues, Réunion, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sumatera, Suriname, Taiwan, Tanzania, Texas, Thailand, Togo, Uganda, Vietnam, West Himalaya, Yemen, Zaïre, Zimbabwe

Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Accepted Species

Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Govaerts, R., Nic Lughadha, E., Black, N., Turner, R. & Paton, A. (2021). The World Checklist of Vascular Plants, a continuously updated resource for exploring global plant diversity. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00997-6. Scientific Data 8: 215.

Flora of Tropical East Africa

  • Kosterm., Monogr. Asiatic etc. Sp. Mimos. Formerly Incl. in Pithecolobium Mart.: 8 (Bull. 20, Org. Sci. Res. Indonesia (1954))
  • in Flora 20 (2), Beibl.: 114 (1837) (erroneously as Pithecollobium)

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Zarucchi, J.L. [1291], Colombia 44918.000 No
Pennington, T.D. [12430], Peru 54401.000 No

Sources

  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Science Photographs

    • Copyright applied to individual images

  • Legumes of the World Online

    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0