Abarema leucophylla var. leucophylla
Rupert C. Barneby
17a. Abarema leucophylla (Bentham) Barneby & Grimes var. leucophylla. Pithecolobium leucophyl- lum Spruce ex Bentham, 11. cc. supra. — ". . . in sylvis siccis ad flumen Uaupés prov. do Alto Amazonas [Brazil], Spruce 2786." — Holotypus, K (herb. bentham.)! = NY Neg. 2004; isotypi, †B = F Neg. 1206, BM!, F 1540696! GH!, GOET!, K(herb. bentham.)!, (herb, hooker.)!, P (2 sheets)!, RB (2 sheets)!. — Feuilleea leucophylla (Bentham) O. Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 188. 1891.
Inga crassifolia Klotzsch ex Bentham, 1875: 582, pro syn. Pithecolobii filamentosi, nom. nud. — "Venezuela, Otto'7 K (3 sheets)!.
Characters as given in key to varieties.
In scrub savanna or matorral on white sand, sometimes an element of the savanna-forest ecotone, ±75-180 m, locally plentiful between 4°N and 0°30/S on the upper Orinoco and sources of the Negro in E Vaupés, Colombia, SW T. F. Amazonas, Venezuela, and NW state of Amazonas, Brazil. — Map 19. — Fl. VII, X-XI, perhaps irregularly throughout the year, the old fruits often persistent into anthesis of the next season. — Marepillo (Venezuela).
References: [Article] Barneby, Rupert C. & Grimes, James W. 1996. Silk tree, guanacaste, monkey's earring: a generic system for the synandrous Mimosaceae of the Americas. Part I. Abarema, Albizia, and allies. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 74: 1-292.