Parapiptadenia rigida(Benth.) Brenan

WFO wfo-0000168342 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 4 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 4 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Parapiptadenia rigida, photographed by Fernando Sessegolo
fig. a Fernando Sessegolo, CC0 1.0 / 2020-11-17 / obs. 105426656
Parapiptadenia rigida, photographed by Edson Luis Fabro Gasperin
fig. b Edson Luis Fabro Gasperin, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 38544372
Parapiptadenia rigida, photographed by Edson Luis Fabro Gasperin
fig. c Edson Luis Fabro Gasperin, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 38544378
Parapiptadenia rigida, photographed by Edson Luis Fabro Gasperin
fig. d Edson Luis Fabro Gasperin, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 38544376
Parapiptadenia rigida, photographed by Sebastián Gómez Barboza Silveira
fig. e Sebastián Gómez Barboza Silveira, CC0 1.0 / obs. 185851253
Parapiptadenia rigida, photographed by Sebastián Gómez Barboza Silveira
fig. f Sebastián Gómez Barboza Silveira, CC0 1.0 / obs. 185851290
Parapiptadenia rigida, photographed by Sebastián Gómez Barboza Silveira
fig. g Sebastián Gómez Barboza Silveira, CC0 1.0 / obs. 185851322
Parapiptadenia rigida, photographed by Hugo Hulsberg
fig. h Hugo Hulsberg, CC0 1.0 / obs. 171177107

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Native range 5 botanical countries

Regions where Parapiptadenia rigida is native: Argentina Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Paraguay, Uruguay Argentina NortheastBrazil SouthBrazil SoutheastParaguayUruguay
Native distribution of Parapiptadenia rigida, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Argentina Northeast AGE SOUTHERN AMERICA
Brazil South BZS
Brazil Southeast BZL
Paraguay PAR
Uruguay URU

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 6 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Acacia angico Mart. ex Colla
  • Piptadenia rigida Benth.
  • Piptadenia rigida var. grandis Lindm.
  • Piptadenia rigida var. typica Lindm.
  • Prosopis elegans Spreng.
  • Senegalia angico (Mart.) Seigler & Ebinger

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.