Pithecellobium Totally Explained

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Pithecellobium is a legume genus in the family Fabaceae.
Delimitation to the closely-related Albizia is a matter of dispute, and species were (and still are) being moved from one genus to the other times and again. In addition, most species of Abarema were at one time or another placed in Pithecellobium.

Current species

While most species once placed herein are in fact now in Albizia or other Ingeae genera, the following are retained in Pithecellobium:

Pithecellobium albicaule Britton & Rose
Pithecellobium bahamense Northr.
Pithecellobium bertolonii Benth.
Pithecellobium bifoliolatum
Pithecellobium bipinnatum L.Rico
Pithecellobium brownii Standl.
Pithecellobium circinale (L.) Benth.
Pithecellobium concinnum Pittier
Pithecellobium cynodonticum Barneby & J.W.Grimes
Pithecellobium discolor Britton
Pithecellobium dulce
Pithecellobium excelsum (Kunth) Mart.
Pithecellobium filipes (Vent.) Benth.
Pithecellobium furcatum Benth.
Pithecellobium histrix (A.Rich.) Benth.
Pithecellobium hymenaeafolium (Willd.) Benth
Pithecellobium insigne Micheli
Pithecellobium johansenii
Pithecellobium keyense Coker
Pithecellobium lanceolatum (Willd.) Benth.
Pithecellobium oblongum Benth.
Pithecellobium pachypus Pittier
Pithecellobium peckii S.F.Blake
Pithecellobium platycarpum Merr.
Pithecellobium seleri
Pithecellobium tenue Craib
Pithecellobium unguis-cati (L.) Benth.
Pithecellobium vietnamense I.C.Nielsen

Status pending review

The following species are tentatively placed here; there's doubt whether they really belong in ths genus, or even whether they're valid taxa:

Pithecellobium benthamianum Miq.

Pithecellobium bijugatum Schery

Pithecellobium caesalpinioides Standl.

Pithecellobium campechense Lundell

Pithecellobium candidum (Kunth) Benth.

Pithecellobium cordifolium Morong & Britton

Pithecellobium decandrum

Pithecellobium diversifolium Benth.

Pithecellobium domingense Alain

Pithecellobium elegans Ducke

Pithecellobium flavovirens Britton

Pithecellobium glaucescens Pittier

Pithecellobium guaraniticum Chodat & Hassl.

Pithecellobium guaricense Pittier

Pithecellobium guatemalense (Record) Standl.

Pithecellobium gummiferum Mart.

Pithecellobium halogenes Standl.

Pithecellobium laetum (Poepp.) Benth.

Pithecellobium larensis Cardenas

Pithecellobium leucosericeum A.R.Molina

Pithecellobium longipendulum Forero & A.H.Gentry

Pithecellobium macrandrium Donn.Sm.

Pithecellobium maestrense Urb.

Pithecellobium mataybifolium Sandwith

Pithecellobium micradenium Benth.

Pithecellobium microchlamys Pittier

Pithecellobium mucronatum Coker

Pithecellobium nicoyanum (Britton & Rose) Niezgoda & Nevling

Pithecellobium pistaciifolium Standl.

Pithecellobium salutare Benth.

Pithecellobium spinulosum Pittier

Pithecellobium steyermarkii Schery

Pithecellobium striolatum Urb.

Pithecellobium velutinum Britton & Rose

Formerly placed here

� See also List of Albizia species and Abarema.

Some species formerly in Pithecellobium are:

Archidendron bigeminum (as Pithecellobium bigeminum, P. gracile, P. nicobaricum)

Chloroleucon foliolosum (as Pithecellobium foliolosum, P. grisebachianum, P. myriophyllum Malme, P. oligandrum)

Pseudosamanea cubana (as Pithecellobium bacona)

Zygia cognata (as Pithecellobium cognatum, P. stevensonii)

Zygia pithecolobioides (Granadillo de Rio; as Pithecellobium pithecolobioides, P. reductum)

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