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Pseudopiptadenia
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
4 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Pseudopiptadenia suaveolens
speciesPseudopiptadenia suaveolens
Pseudopiptadenia psilostachya
speciesPseudopiptadenia psilostachya
Pseudopiptadenia warmingii
speciesPseudopiptadenia warmingii
Pseudopiptadenia brenanii
speciesPseudopiptadenia brenanii
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 50983.