Piptadenia
Piptadenia gonoacantha in Brazil
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Caesalpinioideae
Clade: Mimosoid clade
Genus: Piptadenia
Benth. (1840)[1]
Species[2]

28; see text

Synonyms[2]

Stachychrysum Bojer (1837)

Piptadenia is a genus of tropical shrubs and trees of the family Fabaceae. It includes 28 species native to the tropical Americas, ranging from central Mexico to southern Brazil and northwestern Argentina.[2]

Species

28 species are accepted:[2]

  • Piptadenia adiantoides (Spreng.) Macbr.
  • Piptadenia affinis Burkart
  • Piptadenia amazonica Ducke
  • Piptadenia anolidurus Barneby
  • Piptadenia boliviana Benth.
  • Piptadenia buchtienii Barneby
  • Piptadenia cuzcoensis Barneby
  • Piptadenia floribunda Kleinhoonte
  • Piptadenia gonoacantha (Mart.) Macbr.
  • Piptadenia imatacae Barneby
  • Piptadenia irwinii G.P.Lewis
    • var. irwinii G.P.Lewis
    • var. unijuga G.P.Lewis
Piptadenia gonoacantha young trunk
  • Piptadenia killipii Macbr.
    • var. cacaophila G.P.Lewis
    • var. killipii Macbr.
  • Piptadenia laxipinna B.M.Barroso
  • Piptadenia leucoxylon Barneby & Grimes
  • Piptadenia macradenia Benth.
  • Piptadenia micracantha Benth.
  • Piptadenia minutiflora Ducke
  • Piptadenia paniculata Benth.
  • Piptadenia peruviana (J.F.Macbr.) Barneby
  • Piptadenia pteroclada Benth.
  • Piptadenia ramosissima (Mart. ex Colla) Benth.
  • Piptadenia retusa (Jacq.) P.G.Ribeiro, Seigler & Ebinger
  • Piptadenia robusta Pittier
  • Piptadenia santosii Barneby ex G.P.Lewis
  • Piptadenia trisperma (Vell.) Benth.
  • Piptadenia uaupensis Spruce ex Benth.
  • Piptadenia uliginosa Britton & Killip
  • Piptadenia voronoffii Pittier.
  • Piptadenia weberbaueri Harms[3]

Several species formerly placed in this genus (such as those used to prepare the psychotomimetic snuffs vilca and yopo/parica) are now considered to be in the genus Anadenanthera. Three species have also been placed in genus Adenopodia.[4] Others have been moved to the genus Pityrocarpa.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Piptadenia". www.ars-grin.gov. NPGS/GRIN. Retrieved 2008-04-19.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Piptadenia Benth. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 14 September 2023.
  3. ↑ "Genera Containing Currently Accepted Names: Piptadenia". www.ildis.org. ILDIS. Archived from the original on 2007-11-13. Retrieved 2008-04-19.
  4. ↑ "Adenopodia C.Presl 1851". Legumes of the World: Taxonomic View. Kew Gardens. Archived from the original on 3 February 2014. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
  5. ↑ Jobson RW, Luckow M. (2007). "Phylogenetic study of the genus Piptadenia (Mimosoideae: Leguminosae) using plastid trnL–F and trnK/matK sequence data". Syst Bot. 32 (3): 569–575. doi:10.1600/036364407782250544.


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