Hydrochorea elegans

Hydrochorea elegans is a species of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It is a tree in the emergent layer of the tropical rainforest of southern Central America (Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica) and northern South America (Bolivia, French Guiana, and northern Brazil). The species was formerly known as Balizia elegans, and reassigned to genus Hydrochorea in 2022.^[2]

Hydrochorea elegans
Hydrochorea elegans from western Panama
Conservation status
Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Fabales
Family:	Fabaceae
Subfamily:	Caesalpinioideae
Clade:	Mimosoid clade
Genus:	Hydrochorea
Species:	H. elegans
Binomial name
Hydrochorea elegans (Ducke) M.V.B.Soares, Iganci & M.P.Morim (2022)
Synonyms[2]
Albizia duckeana L.Rico (2000) Albizia elegans (Ducke) L.Rico (1999 publ. 2000), nom. illeg. Balizia elegans (Ducke) Barneby & J.W.Grimes (1996)[3] Pithecolobium elegans Ducke (1922)