Piptadenia Explained

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.

Species

28 species are accepted:

• Piptadenia adiantoides (Spreng.) Macbr.
• Piptadenia affinis Burkart
• Piptadenia amazonica
• Piptadenia anolidurus Barneby
• Piptadenia boliviana
• 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 killipii Macbr.
  • var. cacaophila G.P.Lewis
  • var. killipii Macbr.
• Piptadenia laxipinna B.M.Barroso
• Piptadenia leucoxylon Barneby & Grimes
• Piptadenia macradenia
• 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
• 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^[1]

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.^[2] Others have been moved to the genus Pityrocarpa.^[3]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Genera Containing Currently Accepted Names: Piptadenia . ILDIS . www.ildis.org . 2008-04-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20071113230628/http://ildis.org/LegumeWeb/6.00/names/npall/npall_562.shtml . 2007-11-13.
2. Web site: Adenopodia C.Presl 1851 . Legumes of the World: Taxonomic View . Kew Gardens . 2 February 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140203202114/http://www.kew.org/science-research-data/lowo/TaxonomicView/SubFamily/Tribe/Genus/index.htm?kew_lowo_accepted_name_path=Adenopodia . 3 February 2014 .
3. Jobson RW, Luckow M. . 2007 . Phylogenetic study of the genus Piptadenia (Mimosoideae: Leguminosae) using plastid trnL–F and trnK/matK sequence data . . 32 . 3 . 569–575 . 10.1600/036364407782250544.