Pterolobium

The genus, Pterolobium (from Gr. πτερόν pterón, meaning "wing", and λόβιον lóbion, meaning "pod" or "capsule", alluding to the winged fruit), consists of 10 species of perennial flowering plants in the family Fabaceae, subfamily Caesalpinioideae^[2] and tribe Caesalpinieae.^[3] They are sometimes called redwings^{[citation needed]} and are native to the tropical to subtropical climes of Africa and Asia, including Indonesia and the Philippines. They are large scrambling or climbing shrubs that grow in riverside thickets, on rocky slopes or at forest margins. They bear colourful samara fruit, and have pairs of thorns below the rachis of their bipinnate leaves.

Pterolobium
The camp siege (P. hexapetalum) in India
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Fabales
Family:	Fabaceae
Subfamily:	Caesalpinioideae
Tribe:	Caesalpinieae
Genus:	Pterolobium R.Br. ex Wight & Arn., (1834), nom. cons.
Type species
Pterolobium stellatum (Forssk.) Brenan
Species
See text
Synonyms[1]
Cantuffa J.F.Gmel. (1791) Kantuffa Bruce (1790) Quartinia A.Rich. (1840) Reichardia Roth (1821), nom. illeg.

Species

Pterolobium comprises the following species:^[3][1]

• Pterolobium borneense Merrill
• Pterolobium densiflorum Prain
• Pterolobium hexapetalum (Roth) Santapau & Wagh ― camp siege
• Pterolobium integrum Craib
• Pterolobium macropterum Kurz (synonym P. sinense)
• Pterolobium membranulaceum (Blanco) Merrill
• Pterolobium micranthum Gagnep., emend. Craib
• Pterolobium microphyllum Miq.
• Pterolobium punctatum Hemsl.
• Pterolobium stellatum (Forssk.) Brenan ― redwing (synonym P. lacerans)