Abarema is a neotropical genus in the family Fabaceae. It is native to Brazil, Cuba, and Venezuela.Most of the species can be found in the Amazon Basin and the Guyana Highlands. They have a deep-green fernlike foliage, with bipinnately compound leaves.
Abarema abbottii, the Abbott abarema, is a species of plant in the family Fabaceae. It is found only in the Dominican Republic, and is confined to broad-leaved woodlands on limestone soils.
Abarema callejasii is a species of plant in the family Fabaceae. It is endemic to the east slope of the Cordillera Central in Antioquia, Colombia. It is a small tree found in montane rainforests.
Abarema centiflora is a species of plant in the family Fabaceae. It is endemic to the east slope of the Bolivian Andes. It is a small tree found in humid montane forests.
Abarema cochliocarpos is a species of tree in the legume family, Fabaceae. Its common name is barbatimão. It is endemic to Brazil, where it occurs in Alagoas, Bahia, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Norte and São Paulo.
Abarema filamentosa is a species of plant in the family Fabaceae. It is endemic to the Brazilian states of Bahia and Espírito Santo, and is found in lowland wet Atlantic Forest and restinga.
Abarema josephi is a species of plant in the family Fabaceae. It is known only from the type locality in Caquetá, Colombia.
Abarema killipii is a species of plant in the family Fabaceae. It is found in Caldas Department, Colombia and on the eastern slope of the Ecuadorean Andes.
Abarema obovata, the obovate abarema, is a species of plant in the family Fabaceae. It is endemic to the wooded hillsides of east and north-central Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Abarema oxyphyllidia is a species of plant in the family Fabaceae. It is endemic to the Cordillera Guajiquiro in southwest Honduras. It is found in mixed montane forest, and is known from only one specimen collected in 1964.
Abarema racemiflora is a species of plant in the family Fabaceae. It is endemic to the areas of Turrialba and Ciudad Quesada in Costa Rica.
Abarema acreana is a tree species in the legume family (Fabaceae). It is a rather mysterious plant and may be endemic to Brazil. Fruiting trees apparently have never been found, and thus it is not clear whether this plant belongs into the genus Abarema, or in Hydrochorea, or elsewhere.
Abarema glauca, the glaucous abarema, is a tree species in the legume family (Fabaceae). It is found in the Bahamas, Cuba, and Hispaniola. Abarema glauca is found most easily on the east coast of Dominican Republic, in Uvero Alto, north of Punta Cana.
Zygia lehmannii is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. It is found only in Colombia.
Archidendron bigeminum is a tree species in the legume family (Fabaceae). It is found in India and Sri Lanka. It is known as "kalitiya - කලටිය" in Sinhala.
The Flora of Colombia is characterized by over 28,000 species of green plants.
Abarema adenophora is a species of plant in the family Fabaceae. It is native to Northern South America, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua.
Abarema alexandri is a species of plant of the genus Abarema in the family Fabaceae. It is endemic to Jamaica, where it can be found in woodland or thicket on limestone soils.
Abarema curvicarpa is a species of plant of the genus Abarema in the family Fabaceae. It can be found in Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana and Suriname.
Encephalartos lehmannii is a low-growing palm-like cycad in the family Zamiaceae. It is commonly known as the Karoo cycad and is endemic to South Africa. The species name lehmannii commemorates Prof J.G.C. Lehmann, a German botanist who studied the cycads and published a book on them in 1834. This cycad is listed as near threatened in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
