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.- Abarema cochliacarpos - barbatimo: eastern Brazil
- Abarema diamantina – northeastern Brazil
- Abarema levelii – southern Venezuela and northern Brazil
Status uncertain
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 abarema
- Jupunba adenophora
- Jupunba alexandri
- Jupunba asplenifolia - spleen-leaved abarema
- Jupunba auriculata Barneby & J.W.Grimes - guarango maní
- Jupunba barbouriana - Barbour abarema
- Jupunba brachystachya – obovate abarema
- Jupunba campestris
- Jupunba cochleata
- * Jupunba cochleata var. moniliformis
- Jupunba commutata
- Jupunba curvicarpa
- * Jupunba curvicarpa var. rodriguesii as Abarema curvicarpa var. rodriguesii )
- Jupunba ferruginea
- Jupunba filamentosa
- Jupunba floribunda
- Jupunba gallorum
- Jupunba ganymedea
- Jupunba glauca
- Jupunba idiopoda M.V.B.Soares, M.P.Morim & Iganci
- Jupunba laeta
- Jupunba langsdorffii
- Jupunba leucophylla
- * Jupunba [leucophylla var. vaupesensis|Jupunba leucophylla var. vaupesensis]
- Jupunba longipedunculata
- Jupunba macradenia - Panama abarema
- Jupunba mataybifolia
- Jupunba microcalyx
- Jupunba nipensis
- Jupunba obovalis
- Jupunba oppositifolia - opposite-leaved abarema
- Jupunba oxyphyllidia
- Jupunba piresii
- Jupunba trapezifolia
- *Jupunba trapezifolia var. micradenia - Delmare abarema, crabwood, dalmare, delmare, jumbie head, soapy-soapy; wild tamarin
- Jupunba turbinata
- Jupunba villifera
- Jupunba zolleriana
- Punjuba callejasii
- Punjuba centiflora
- Punjuba josephi as Abarema josephi )
- Punjuba killipii
- Punjuba lehmannii
- ''Punjuba racemiflora''