Silk Tree, Guanacaste, Monkey's Earring: Abarema, Albizia, and Allies. Mem (74)1 books Central America

Central America

mainly of the humid Amazon lowland rainforests

is now threatened by inappropriate and rapacious use of its precious natural resources

/ Macairea is a neotropical genus of shrubs and subshrubs

One new species

Silk Tree, Guanacaste, Monkey's Earring: Abarema, Albizia, and Allies. Mem (74)1 books Central AmericaThis monograph is the first installment of a three part study of the synandrous Mimosaceae occurring in the Americas, that is, those genera of the tribe Ingeae ever referred to Pithecellobium Martius. In the first comprehensive treatment since 1875, Part I covers the genera Abarema, Albizia, and Allies. The plants in this grouping are mostly monopodial or sympodial woody plants with monomorphic or dimorphic branch systems. The species vary in stature