Pseudalbizzia sect. Pterocarpa E.J.M. Koenen & Duno sect. nov.

Type.

Pithecellobium niopoides Spruce ex Benth. = Pseudalbizzia niopoides (Spruce ex Benth.) E.J.M. Koenen & Duno.

Notes.

Microphyllidious trees with the inflorescence usually composed of axillary efoliate pseudoracemes, sometimes a partly or wholly terminal panicle (but not surpassing the foliage), the fruit with a narrowly winged margin and seeds oblique. A single widespread species found in deciduous seasonally dry forests, gallery forest, and evergreen forests in Mexico, Central and South America (Fig. 6).