Poecilanthe

Poecilanthe is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It includes 9 species of trees and shrubs native to eastern, southern, and west-central Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, and northeastern Argentina. They grow in seasonally-dry tropical forest, woodland, thicket, and riverine forest.^[1]

Poecilanthe
Poecilanthe falcata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Fabales
Family:	Fabaceae
Subfamily:	Faboideae
Tribe:	Brongniartieae
Genus:	Poecilanthe Benth. (1860)
Species[1]
9; see text

Several Amazonian species formerly classed in Poelicanthe were reclassified into the new genera Amphiodon and Limadendron based on a 2014 molecular and morphogenetic analysis.^[2]

Species

Poecilanthe comprises the following species:^{[1][3][4][5][2][6]}

• Poecilanthe boliviana G.P.Lewis
• Poecilanthe falcata (Vell.) Heringer
• Poecilanthe fluminensis Meireles & H.C.Lima
• Poecilanthe goiasana G.P.Lewis
• Poecilanthe grandiflora Benth.
• Poecilanthe itapuana G.P.Lewis
• Poecilanthe parviflora Benth.
• Poecilanthe subcordata Benth.
• Poecilanthe ulei (Harms) Arroyo & Rudd