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Pithecolobium (Greek, monkey, and ear ring). Leguminosae. Tropical shrubs or trees planted for ornament and shade.
With or without axillary stipular spines: lvs. bipinnate; lfts. at first small, many pinnate or large, 1-3- pinnate, rarely with 1 lft.; petiolar glands rarely wanting; stipules small and inconspicuous or persistent, hardened or spiny: fls. 5- or rarely 6-merous, hermaphrodite or rarely polygamous, in head-like spikes; calyx campanulate or tubular, short-toothed; corolla tubular or funnelform; stamens few or many, much exserted, at. the base or above united into a tube; anthers small; ovary sessile or stipitate, many-ovuled. style filiform, stigma terminal, small or capitate: pod compressed or flattened, circinate, twisted falcate, or rarely nearly straight, coriaceous, thick or somewhat fleshy, 2-valved, not septate between the seeds; seed 
pulpy, short, often dark-colored, ovate or orbicular, compressed; funiculus filiform or with variously expanded fleshy arils.—About 125 species. The subgenus samanea of Bentham is of generic rank. See Samanea, Vol. VI. It is distinguished from Pithecolobium by its straight indehiscent septate pods, and from Enterolobium by its straight, more or less constricted instead of short thick circinate or reniform pods.
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==Species==
*[[Pithecolobium angulatum]]
*[[Pithecolobium latifolium]]
*[[Pithecolobium sonorae]]
*[[Pithecolobium brevifolium]]
*[[Pithecolobium lobatum]]
*[[Pithecolobium texense]]
*[[Pithecolobium dulce]]
*[[Pithecolobium mexicanum]]
*[[Pithecolobium tortum]]
*[[Pithecolobium flexicaule]]
*[[Pithecolobium pruinosum]]
*[[Pithecolobium unguis-cati]]
*[[Pithecolobium guadalupense]]
*[[Pithecolobium scutiferum]]
*P. acle, Vidal (Mimosa acle, Blanco)=Albizzia acle, Merrill.{{SCH}}
*P. albicans, Benth. (Acacia albicans, Kunth). Canescent-puberu- lent: lvs. 4-0-pinnate; lfts. 12-20-pinnate, oblique, linear-oblong, 3- 4 in. long: inn. axillary; fls. glabrous; calyx 1/2 line long; corolla 2 lines long: pod glabrous, 3-5 in. long, 1/2. broad, coriaceous. Mex. {{SCH}}
*P. filicifolum, Benth. (Mimosa filicifolia, Lam. )=Samanea filicifolia, Ricker.{{SCH}}
*P. fragrans, Benth. (Inga fragrans, Macfad. Acacia Berteriana, DC.). Scabrous or minutely pubescent: lvs. 8-10 pinnate; lfts. 30-40-pinnate. oblong-linear or linear-falcate, 2—4 in. long, dark above, pale beneath, costa excentric: heads pedicellate m racemose panicles: calyx 1/2 - 3/4 in line long; corolla 1 1/3-2 lines long: pod straight, smooth, not much thickened, 3—4 in. long, 6 lines broad, indehiscent. W. Indies.{{SCH}}
*P. geminatum, Benth. (Calliandra  geminata, Benth.) = Inga geminata, Wight & Arn. An ornamental tree with large lfts. Ceylon. Hook. Ic. 16:1510. {{SCH}}
*P. Saman, Benth. (Mimosa Saman, Jacq. Enterolobiura Saman, Prain)=Samanea Saman, Merrill.{{SCH}}
*P. umbellatum, Benth. (Mimosa umbellata. Vahl. Acacia Concordiana, Loud.). Puberulent: lvs. 1-2-pinnatc; lfts. 4-10-pinnate, oblique-oblong, obtuse, 1/2 - 3/4 in. long: fls. in pedicellate heads, glabrous; calyx 1-1 1/2 lines long; corolla 3-3 1/2 lines long: pod curved, thick, 3-4 in. long, 3/4in. broad, constricted between the seeds. India.{{SCH}}

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==References==
*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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