Abarema jupunba (Willd.) Britton & Killip var. jupunba
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Authors
Rupert C. Barneby
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Authority
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.
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Family
Mimosaceae
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Scientific Name
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Type
"Habitat in provincia Para Brasiliae . . . [Friedrich Wilhelm Sieber 44, com- mun.] Com. de Hoffmannsegg." - Holotypus, B-WILLD 19142, seen in Microform IDC 86. 1388: II. 1! - The now defoliate specimens cannot be determined from the negative but were equ
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Synonyms
Mimosa jupunba Poir., , , , Mimosa trapezifolia Vahl, , , Bryocentria brongniartii (P.Crouan & H.Crouan) Döbbeler, Mimosa vaga L.
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Description
Variety Description - Lvs as described in key to varieties. [Key] "Lf-formula iii-v(-vii)/(6-)7-12, and terminal lfts of larger lvs (13)16-35(36) x 10-19(-21) mm;"
Distribution and Ecology - In virgin and disturbed lowland and upland forest, in forest-savanna ecotone, and on rocky river banks, but not entering seasonally flooded forest, mostly below 400 m but ranging from near sea level on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of tropical South America to 1200 m in E Peru (San Martin), to 1500 m in Ecuador, and to 600 m on the island of Dominica; interruptedly dispersed around and within the Amazon basin from Ecuador and E Peru E to the delta, S on the Madeira-Beni into NE Bolivia, N through inter-Andean valleys of Colombia to the Pacific coast in Valle, and to the Maracaibo Basin in NW Venezuela; reappearing in lowland forest near the coasts of French Guiana, and between Sergipe and Espírito Santo (in lat. ±10°-20°30'S), and disjunct on Lesser Antilles (Guadeloupe to Grenada, reportedly absent from Martinique). - Map 15. - Fl. in all months of the year, most prolifically IX-III. [Key] "range of the species except most of Venezuela...........13a. var. jupunba"
Local Names and Uses - Arepilla (Venezuela): dalmaré, savonette (Grenada); acacia mâle, tamalin (French Guiana); saboeiro (Pará); mani (Bolivia, perhaps missapplied).
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Common Names
Arepilla, dalmaré, savonette, acacia mâle, tamalin, saboeiro, Mani
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Distribution
San Martín Peru South America| Ecuador South America| Dominica South America| Bolivia South America| Colombia South America| Venezuela South America| French Guiana South America| Sergipe Brazil South America| Espirito Santo Brazil South America| Bahia Brazil South America| Amazonas Brazil South America| Rondônia Brazil South America| Pará Brazil South America| Amapá Brazil South America| Mato Grosso Brazil South America| Grenada South America| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines South America| Saint Lucia South America| Guadeloupe South America|