''Punjuba lehmannii'' 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 ...

in the family

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

. It is native to the

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of west-central

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 ...

and southern

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 ...

. In Colombia it is found in the departments of Antioquia, Cauca, Quindío, and Tolima, where it grows in moist montane forest from 1,600 to 2,300 meters elevation.

References

lehmannii Vulnerable plants Flora of Colombia Flora of Peru Plants described in 1936 Taxa named by Nathaniel Lord Britton Taxa named by Joseph Nelson Rose Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Mimosoideae-stub