''Jupunba auriculata'' is a species of

plant Plants are the eukaryotes that form the Kingdom (biology), kingdom Plantae; they are predominantly Photosynthesis, photosynthetic. This means that they obtain their energy from sunlight, using chloroplasts derived from endosymbiosis with c ...

of the genus ''

Abarema ''Abarema'' is a neotropical genus in the family (biology), family Fabaceae. It is native to Brazil and Venezuela. Most of the species can be found in the Amazon Basin and the Guyana Highlands. They have a deep-green fernlike Leaf, foliage, with ...

'' in the family

Fabaceae Fabaceae () or Leguminosae,International Code of Nomen ...

.Barneby & Grimes (1996), ILDIS (2005) It is a tree native to the

Amazon Basin The Amazon basin is the part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its tributary, tributaries. The Amazon drainage basin covers an area of about , or about 35.5 percent of the South American continent. It is located in the countries ...

Colombia Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with Insular region of Colombia, insular regions in North America. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuel ...

Peru Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pac ...

, and northern

Brazil Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in South America. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, fifth-largest country by area and the List of countries and dependencies by population ...

Footnotes

References

* (1996): Silk Tree, Guanacaste, Monkey's Earring: A generic system for the synandrous Mimosaceae of the Americas. Part I. ''Abarema, Albizia'', and Allies. ''Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden'' 74(1): 1–292. * (2005)
Genus ''Abarema''
Version 10.01, November 2005. Retrieved 2008-MAR-31. auriculata Flora of North Brazil Flora of Colombia Flora of Peru Plants described in 1844 Taxa named by George Bentham {{Mimosoideae-stub