''Jupunba leucophylla'' 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 ''

Jupunba ''Jupunba'' is a genus in the family Fabaceae. It is native to the tropical Americas, ranging from southern Mexico to the Caribbean, Central America, and tropical South America. Species ''Jupunba'' has 38 accepted species: *'' Jupunba abbottii'' ...

'' in the family

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

. It is a shrub or tree native to lowland rainforest in 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 ...

of northern Brazil, Colombia, and Venezuela.

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 2009-12-19. leucophylla Flora of North Brazil Flora of Colombia Flora of Venezuela Plants described in 1875 Taxa named by George Bentham {{Mimosoideae-stub