Abarema


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

Abarema agropecuaria

Formerly placed here

Archidendron bigeminum I.C.Nielsen Kosterm., and Abarema monadelpha Archidendron grandiflorum I.C.Nielsen Archidendron hendersonii I.C.Nielsen Hydrochorea acreana Jupunba abbottii - Abbott abaremaJupunba adenophora Jupunba alexandri Jupunba asplenifolia - spleen-leaved abaremaJupunba auriculata Barneby & J.W.Grimes - guarango maníJupunba barbouriana - Barbour abarema