''Jupunba macradenia'' 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 ...

. Common names include ''bantano, coralillo, guavo'', and ''guavo de montana''. It is a tree native to southeastern Mexico, Belize, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, and Ecuador, where it grows in lowland tropical moist forests. In Colombia it grows in the Pacific (

Chocó–Darién moist forests The Chocó–Darién moist forests (NT0115) is a largely forested, tropical ecoregion of northwestern South America and southern Central America. The ecoregion extends from the eastern Panamanian province of Darién and the indigenous region of ...

ecoregion) and Andean (

Cauca Valley montane forests The Cauca Valley montane forests (NT0109) is an ecoregion in western Colombia. It covers the sides of the Cauca Valley, which runs from south to north between the Cordillera Central (Colombia), Central and Cordillera Occidental (Colombia), Western ...

ecoregion) regions, from sea level to 1,500 meters elevation. The species has a broad range and large population, and is assessed as

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by the

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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 2009-12-19. macradenia Flora of Belize Flora of Colombia Flora of Costa Rica Flora of Ecuador Flora of Nicaragua Flora of Panama Plants described in 1922 Taxa named by Henri François Pittier {{Mimosoideae-stub