{{Short description|Genus of legumes}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Poitea florida.jpg | image_caption = ''Poitea florida'' | taxon = Poitea | authority = Vent. (1807) | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = 15; see text | subdivision_ref = <ref name = powo>[https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:23317-1 ''Poitea'' Vent.] ''Plants of the World Online''. Retrieved 11 August 2025.</ref> | synonyms = * ''Bembicidium'' <small>Rydb. (1920)</small> * ''Cajalbania'' <small>Urb. (1928)</small> * ''Corynella'' <small>DC. (1825)</small> * ''Corynitis'' {{small|Spreng. (1827)}} * ''Notodon'' <small>Urb. (1899)</small> * ''Sabinea'' <small>DC. (1825)</small> * ''Sauvallella'' <small>Rydb. (1924)</small> * ''Toxotropis'' {{small|Turcz. (1846)}} * ''Vilmorinia'' <small>DC. (1825)</small> | synonyms_ref = <ref name = powo/> }}
'''''Poitea''''' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It includes 15 species of trees and shrubs native to the Caribbean islands of Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Dominica. Typical habitats include seasonally-dry tropical lowland to montane forest, thicket, and thorn scrub, often in secondary vegetation and on steep slopes or roadsides.<ref name = powo/> It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae.<ref>http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/search?q=Poitea Poitea at Plant List</ref>
==Species== 15 species are accepted.<ref name = powo/> *''Poitea campanilla'' {{small|DC.}} *''Poitea carinalis'' {{small|(Griseb.) Lavin}} *''Poitea cubensis'' {{small|(Rydb.) J.L.Gómez}} *''Poitea dubia'' {{small|(Poir.) Lavin}} *''Poitea florida'' {{small|(Vahl) Lavin}} *''Poitea galegoides'' {{small|Vent.}} *''Poitea glyciphylla'' {{small|(Poir.) Urb.}} *''Poitea gracilis'' {{small|(Griseb.) Lavin}} *''Poitea immarginata'' {{small|(C.Wright) Lavin}} *''Poitea longiflora'' {{small|Urb.}} *''Poitea multiflora'' {{small|(Sw.) Urb.}} *''Poitea paucifolia'' {{small|(DC.) Lavin}} *''Poitea punicea'' {{small|(Urb.) Lavin}} *''Poitea savannarum'' {{small|(Britton & P.Wilson) J.L.Gómez}} *''Poitea wrightiana'' {{small|J.L.Gómez}}
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Category:Robinieae Category:Fabaceae genera Category:Flora of the Caribbean Category:Taxa described in 1807 Category:Taxa named by Étienne Pierre Ventenat
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