Abarema

Abarema
Abarema cochliocarpos
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Fabales
Family:	Fabaceae
Subfamily:	Caesalpinioideae
Clade:	Mimosoid clade
Genus:	Abarema Pittier
Species
about 45 species, see text
Synonyms
Klugiodendron Britton & Killip Punjuba Britton & Rose Jupunba Britton & Rose

Abarema is a neotropical genus of large trees in the family (Fabaceae). They grow from Mexico (Abarema idiopoda) to Bolivia. 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.

Species[]

Following the 1996 revision, there are currently about 45 species. In older works, the entire genus is usually included within Pithecellobium.^[1]

• Abarema abbottii – Abbott abarema
• Abarema acreana (provisionally placed here)
• Abarema adenophora
• Abarema agropecuaria
• Abarema alexandri – Shadbark abarema
  • Abarema alexandri var. alexandri – Typical shadbark abarema; tamarind shadbark (Jamaica)
  • Abarema alexandri var. trogana – Troy shadbark abarema; shadbark (Jamaica)
• Abarema aspleniifolia –
• Abarema auriculata (Benth.) Barneby & J.W.Grimes –
• Abarema barbouriana –
  • Abarema barbouriana var. barbouriana
• Abarema callejasii
• Abarema campestris
• Abarema centiflora
• Abarema cochleata
  • Abarema cochleata var. moniliformis
• Abarema cochliocarpos – Barbatimo
• Abarema commutata
• Abarema curvicarpa
  • Abarema curvicarpa var. rodriguesii
• Abarema ferruginea
• Abarema filamentosa
• Abarema floribunda
• Abarema gallorum
• Abarema ganymedea
• Abarema glauca – Glaucous abarema
• Abarema idiopoda (S.F.Blake) Barneby & J.W.Grimes
• Abarema josephi
• Abarema jupunba – , crabwood, dalmare, delmare, jumbie head, soapy-soapy; wild tamarin (Grenada, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines)
  • Abarema jupunba var. jupunba
  • Abarema jupunba var. trapezifolia
• Abarema killipii
• Abarema langsdorfii
• Abarema lehmannii
• Abarema leucophylla
  • Abarema leucophylla var. vaupesensis
• Abarema levelii
• Abarema longipedunculata
• Abarema macradenia –
• Abarema microcalyx
• Abarema mataybifolia
• Abarema nipensis
• Abarema obovalis
• Abarema obovata – Obovate abarema
• Abarema oppositifolia –
• Abarema oxyphyllidia
• Abarema piresii
• Abarema racemiflora
• Abarema ricoae
• Abarema turbinata
• Abarema villifera
• Abarema zollerana

Formerly placed here[]

• Archidendron bigeminum (as Abarema abeywickramae, A. bigemina, A. monadelpha)
• Archidendron grandiflorum (as Abarema grandiflora)
• Archidendron hendersonii (as Abarema hendersonii)

Footnotes[]

References[]

Media related to Abarema at Wikimedia Commons

• Barneby, R.C. & Grimes, J.W. (1996): Silk Tree, Guanacaste, Monkey's Earring: A generic system for the synandrous Mimosaceae of the Americas. Part I. Abarema, Albizia, and Allies. Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden 74(1): 1–292. ISBN 0-89327-395-3
• International Legume Database & Information Service (ILDIS) (2005): Genus Abarema. Version 10.01, November 2005. Retrieved 2008-MAR-31.

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