{{Short description|Genus of legumes}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = |image_caption = |taxon = Pityrocarpa |authority = (Benth. & Hook.f.) Britton & Rose (1928) |subdivision_ranks = Species |subdivision = 7; see text |subdivision_ref = <ref name = powo>[https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:23262-1 ''Pityrocarpa'' (Benth. & Hook.f.) Britton & Rose]. ''Plants of the World Online''. Retrieved 14 September 2023.</ref> |synonyms = *''Monoschisma'' {{small|Brenan (1955), nom. illeg.}} *''Piptadenia'' sect. ''Pityrocarpa'' {{small|Benth. & Hook.f. (1875)}}<ref>{{cite journal | author = Jobson RW, Luckow M. | year = 2007 | title = Phylogenetic study of the genus ''Piptadenia'' (Mimosoideae: Leguminosae) using plastid ''trnL''–''F'' and ''trnK''/''matK'' sequence data | journal = Syst Bot | volume = 32 | issue = 3 | pages = 569–575 | doi = 10.1600/036364407782250544}}</ref> *''Pseudopiptadenia'' {{small|Rauschert (1982)}} |synonyms_ref = <ref name = powo/> }}
'''''Pityrocarpa''''' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It includes seven species of shrubs and small trees native to the tropical Americas, including western and southeastern Mexico, Guatemala and El Salvador, Venezuela and Guyana, Bolivia, and eastern Brazil. Native habitats include tropical coastal rain forest, gallery forest, secondary forest, woodland, wooded grassland (Cerrado), and thorn scrub (Caatinga).<ref name = powo/> It belongs to the mimosoid clade of the subfamily Caesalpinioideae.<ref name="6subfamilies">{{cite journal | author = The Legume Phylogeny Working Group (LPWG). | year = 2017 | title = A new subfamily classification of the Leguminosae based on a taxonomically comprehensive phylogeny | journal = Taxon | volume = 66 | issue = 1 | pages = 44–77 | doi = 10.12705/661.3| doi-access = free | hdl = 10568/90658 | hdl-access = free }}</ref> *''Pityrocarpa brenanii'' {{small|(G.P.Lewis & M.P.Lima) L.P.Queiroz & L.M.Borges}} *''Pityrocarpa inaequalis'' {{small|(Benth.) L.P.Queiroz & Marc.F.Simon}} *''Pityrocarpa leptostachya'' {{small|(Benth.) L.P.Queiroz & P.G.Ribeiro}} *''Pityrocarpa leucoxylon'' {{small|(Barneby & J.W.Grimes) Luckow & R.W.Jobson}} *''Pityrocarpa moniliformis'' {{small|(Benth.) Luckow & R.W.Jobson}} *''Pityrocarpa obliqua'' {{small|(Pers.) Brenan}} *''Pityrocarpa schumanniana'' {{small|(Taub.) L.P.Queiroz & L.M.Borges}}
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Category:Mimosoideae Category:Fabaceae genera Category:Flora of the Neotropical realm
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