Parapiptadenia

Parapiptadenia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It includes six species of trees and shrubs native to eastern and southern Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, and northern Argentina. Typical habitats include tropical coastal and dune forest (restinga), woodland, scrub, and secondary growth forest.^[1] It belongs to the mimosoid clade of the subfamily Caesalpinioideae.^[2]

Parapiptadenia
Parapiptadenia rigida
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Fabales
Family:	Fabaceae
Subfamily:	Caesalpinioideae
Clade:	Mimosoid clade
Genus:	Parapiptadenia Brenan (1963)
Species[1]
6; see text
Synonyms[1]
Piptadenia Benth. (1841), nom. illeg.

Species

Six species are accepted:^[1]

• Parapiptadenia blanchetii (Benth.) Vaz & M.P.Lima
• Parapiptadenia excelsa (Griseb.) Burkart
• Parapiptadenia ilheusana G.P.Lewis
• Parapiptadenia pterosperma (Benth.) Brenan
• Parapiptadenia rigida (Benth.) Brenan
• Parapiptadenia zehntneri (Harms) M.P.Lima & H.C.Lima