Zygia pithecolobioides

Zygia pithecolobioides
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Mimosoideae
Tribe: Ingeae
Genus: Zygia
Species: Z. pithecolobioides
Binomial name
Zygia pithecolobioides
(Kuntze) Barneby & J.W.Grimes
Synonyms

Several, see text

Pithecellobium pithecolobioides, known as Granadillo de Río, is a tree species in the legume family (Fabaceae).

Found in Argentina and Paraguay, it is threatened by habitat destruction; whether it still exists in Brazil is at least doubtful.

Junior synonyms are:[1]

Footnotes

  1. ILDIS (2005)

References


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