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Pentaclethra
Pentaclethra is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It belongs to the mimosoid clade of the subfamily Caesalpinioideae. Some genus members occur in the Central American region; for example P. macroloba is the dominant tree in certain seasonal swamp forests in coastal areas of the Isthmian–Atlantic moist forests.
3 branches of this genus, most-observed first
pracaxi
speciesPentaclethra macroloba
African oil bean
speciesPentaclethra macrophylla
Pentaclethra eetveldeana
speciesPentaclethra eetveldeana
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 68048.