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Pityrocarpa
Pityrocarpa is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It includes seven species of shrubs and small trees native to the tropical Americas, including western and southeastern Mexico, Guatemala and El Salvador, Venezuela and Guyana, Bolivia, and eastern Brazil. Native habitats include tropical coastal rain forest, gallery forest, secondary forest, woodland, wooded grassland (Cerrado), and thorn scrub (Caatinga). It belongs to the mimosoid clade of the subfamily Caesalpinioideae.
Pityrocarpa brenanii (G.P.Lewis & M.P.Lima) L.P.Queiroz & L.M.Borges
6 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Pityrocarpa obliqua
speciesPityrocarpa obliqua
Pityrocarpa moniliformis
speciesPityrocarpa moniliformis
Pityrocarpa leucoxylon
speciesPityrocarpa leucoxylon
Pityrocarpa inaequalis
speciesPityrocarpa inaequalis
Pityrocarpa schumanniana
speciesPityrocarpa schumanniana
Pityrocarpa leptostachya
speciesPityrocarpa leptostachya
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 464816.