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Albizia carbonaria Britton

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HIGHER TAXON: Ingeae

GENUS: Albizia Durazz.

Albizia carbonaria Britton [Preferred name]
    Albizia malacocarpa Standl. & S.Calderon {Synonym}
    Albizia malocarpa Standl. {Synonym}
    Albizia sumatrana Steenis {Synonym}
    Pithecellobium carbonarium (Britton)Niezgoda & Nevling {Synonym}
    Pithecolobium carbonarium (Britton)Niezgoda & Nevling {Orthographic variant}

  
VERNACULAR NAME:
  Carbonero Muche [2986]; Pinon [2986]; Pisquin [2986]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Kenya (I) [8]
  Asia
Indonesia (I) [1986]; Jawa (N) [1986]; Sumatera (N) [1986]
  Caribbean
Caribbean-TRP (U) [1430, 1614]; Cuba (I) [2986]; Dominican Republic (I) [2986]; Puerto Rico (I) [2986]
  Central America
Costa Rica (I) [2986]; El Salvador (I) [2986]; Nicaragua (I) [3348]; Panama (N) [2986]
  South America
Brazil (I) [2986]; Sao Paulo [2986]; Colombia (N) [8, 1430, 2986]; Venezuela (N) [2986]

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [1604, 2986, 3348, 3898] ; Distribution Map [2986]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Not climbing [3898] ; Further editing: 2001-05 Bisby FA & Roskov YR, 2005-07 (Americas update) Sokolova IV [3348] ; Habit: Tree [3898] ; Lifespan: Perennial [3898] ; Scrutinised globally by taxonomic co-ordinator: 1994 Nielsen IC & Rico ML, 2001-05 Barneby RC & Grimes JW (Monograph 1996/97) ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM, 2004 (Malesia) Lock JM & Ford C (SJ2005)

  
USES:
  Environmental [1986, 2986]

  
NOTES:
  Planted for coffee-shade and as ornamental tree in C.America. [2986]
  Introduced and cultivated in Java and Sumatra. [1986]

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

8.

  Lock, J.M., 1985
    Specimen in Herb.Kew

1430.

  Liogier, A.H., 1988
    Desc. Flora Puerto Rico & Adjacent Is-Spermatophyta Vol. II

1498.

  Niezgoda, C.J. & Nevling, L.I.Jr, 1979
    Phytologia 44(4):307-312Placement Albizia carbonaria Britton

1604.

  Schery, R.W., 1950
    Ann.Missouri Bot.Gard.37(2):184-314 Leguminosae-Mimosoideae

1614.

  Seymour, F.C., 1981
    Phytologia 48(1):1-71 Bipinnate Leguminosae of Nicaragua

1986.

  Nielsen, I., 1985
    Opera Botanica 81. The Malesian Sp. of Acacia & Albizia.

2986.

  Barneby, R.C. & Grimes, J.W., 1996
    Mem.N.Y.Bot.Gard.74(1)Silk Tree,Guanacaste,Monkey's Earring

3348.

  Stevens, W.D., et al., 2001
    Flora de Nicaragua,85(2)...Missouri Bot.Gard.Press

3898.

  Backer, C.A., 1963
    Flora of Java. Groningen, The Netherlands
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