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
Formerly placed here
- Archidendron bigeminum <small>(L.) I.C.Nielsen</small> (as Abarema abeywickramae <small>Kosterm.</small>, Abarema bigemina <small>(L.) Kosterm.</small>, and Abarema monadelpha <small>(Roxb.) Kosterm.</small>)
- Archidendron grandiflorum <small>(Benth.) I.C.Nielsen</small> (as Abarema grandiflora <small>(Benth.) Kosterm.</small>)
- Archidendron hendersonii <small>(F.Muell.) I.C.Nielsen</small> (as Abarema hendersonii <small>(F.Muell.) Kosterm.</small>)
- Hydrochorea acreana (as Abarema acreana )
- Jupunba abbottii (as Abarema abbottii ) – Abbott abarema
- Jupunba adenophora (as Abarema adenophora )
- Jupunba alexandri (as Abarema alexandri )
- Jupunba asplenifolia (Abarema asplenifolia ) – spleen-leaved abarema
- Jupunba auriculata (as Abarema auriculata <small>(Benth.) Barneby & J.W.Grimes</small> – guarango manÃÂ
- Jupunba barbouriana (synonym Abarema barbouriana ) – Barbour abarema
- Jupunba brachystachya (as Abarema brachystachya and Abarema obovata ) âÂÂàobovate abarema
- Jupunba campestris (as Abarema campestris )
- Jupunba cochleata (as Abarema cochleata )
- Jupunba cochleata var. moniliformis (as Abarema cochleata var. moniliformis and Abarema moniliformis )
- Jupunba commutata (as Abarema commutata )
- Jupunba curvicarpa (as Abarema curvicarpa )
- Jupunba curvicarpa var. rodriguesii as Abarema curvicarpa var. rodriguesii )
- Jupunba ferruginea (as Abarema ferruginea )
- Jupunba filamentosa (Abarema filamentosa )
- Jupunba floribunda (as Abarema floribunda )
- Jupunba gallorum (as Abarema gallorum )
- Jupunba ganymedea (as Abarema ganymedea )
- Jupunba glauca (as Abarema glauca )
- Jupunba idiopoda <small>(S.F.Blake) M.V.B.Soares, M.P.Morim & Iganci</small> (as Abarema idiopoda <small>(S.F.Blake) Barneby & J.W.Grimes</small>)
- Jupunba laeta (as Abarema laeta )
- Jupunba langsdorffii (as Abarema langsdorffii )
- Jupunba leucophylla (as Abarema leucophylla )
- Jupunba leucophylla var. vaupesensis (as Abarema leucophylla var. vaupesensis )
- Jupunba longipedunculata (Abarema longipedunculata )
- Jupunba macradenia (as Abarema macradenia ) – Panama abarema
- Jupunba mataybifolia (as Abarema mataybifolia )
- Jupunba microcalyx (as Abarema microcalyx )
- Jupunba nipensis (as Abarema nipensis )
- Jupunba obovalis (as Abarema obovalis )
- Jupunba oppositifolia (as Abarema oppositifolia ) – opposite-leaved abarema
- Jupunba oxyphyllidia (as Abarema oxyphyllidia )
- Jupunba piresii (as Abarema piresii )
- Jupunba trapezifolia (as Abarema trapezifolia and Abarema jupunba var. trapezifolia )
- Jupunba trapezifolia var. micradenia (as Abarema jupunba ) – Delmare abarema, crabwood, dalmare, delmare, jumbie head, soapy-soapy; wild tamarin (Grenada, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, tropical South America)
- Jupunba turbinata (as Abarema turbinata )
- Jupunba villifera (as Abarema villifera )
- Jupunba zolleriana (as Abarema zolleriana )
- Punjuba callejasii (as Abarema callejasii )
- Punjuba centiflora (as Abarema centiflora )
- Punjuba josephi as Abarema josephi )
- Punjuba killipii (as Abarema killipii )
- Punjuba lehmannii (as Abarema lehmannii )
- Punjuba racemiflora (as Abarema racemiflora )
Footnotes
References
- (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): 1âÂÂ292. <small></small>
- (2005): Genus Abarema. Version 10.01, November 2005. Retrieved 2008-MAR-31.