Abarema

Abarema is a neotropical genus in the family Fabaceae. It is native to Brazil and Venezuela.<ref name = powo/> 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.<ref>Barneby & Grimes (1996), ILDIS (2005)</ref> 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.<ref name = "Soares et al., 2021">Soares, M. V. B., Guerra, E., Morim, M. P., & Iganci, J. R. V. (2021). "Reinstatement and recircumscription of Jupunba and Punjuba (Fabaceae) based on phylogenetic evidence." Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 196(4), 456-479.</ref>

Species

Plants of the World Online currently accepts three species.<ref name = powo/>

• Abarema cochliacarpos Template:Small – barbatimo: eastern Brazil
• Abarema diamantina Template:Small – northeastern Brazil (central Bahia)
• Abarema levelii Template:Small – southern Venezuela and northern Brazil

Status uncertain

• Abarema agropecuaria Template:Small (World Flora Online considers this an unplaced name)<ref>WFO (2025). Abarema agropecuaria Barneby & J.W.Grimes. World Flora Online. Retrieved 26 March 2025.</ref>
• Abarema ricoae Template:Small (World Flora Online considers this an unplaced name)<ref>WFO (2025). Abarema ricoae Barneby & J.W.Grimes. World Flora Online. Retrieved 27 March 2025.</ref>

Formerly placed here

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

References

• Template:Aut (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): 1–292. Template:ISBN
• Template:Aut (2005): Genus Abarema. Version 10.01, November 2005. Retrieved 2008-MAR-31.