Pseudalbizzia niopoides(Spruce ex Benth.) E.J.M.Koenen & Duno

WFO wfo-1000040151 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 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.

Pseudalbizzia niopoides, photographed by Diogo Luiz
fig. a Diogo Luiz, CC BY 4.0 / 2013-09-26 / obs. 179278168
Pseudalbizzia niopoides, photographed by Carlos Bolaños
fig. b Carlos Bolaños, CC0 1.0 / obs. 84841516
Pseudalbizzia niopoides, photographed by Carlos Bolaños
fig. c Carlos Bolaños, CC0 1.0 / obs. 84841328
Pseudalbizzia niopoides, photographed by Carlos Bolaños
fig. d Carlos Bolaños, CC0 1.0 / obs. 84841515
Pseudalbizzia niopoides, photographed by Carlos Bolaños
fig. e Carlos Bolaños, CC0 1.0 / obs. 84841513

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Smithsonian, US National Herbarium
Accession
US 679461
Filed as
Pseudalbizzia niopoides (Spruce ex Benth.) E.J.M.Koenen & Duno
Det. by
Strong, Mark T., (BOT), Smithsonian Institution - National Museum of Natural History (UNITED STATES)
Collected
H. F. Pittier 1911-08
Origin
PA
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC0 1.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 28 botanical countries

Regions where Pseudalbizzia niopoides is native: Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Argentina Northeast, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Leeward Is., Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Windward Is. Mexico GulfMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestArgentina NortheastBelizeBoliviaBrazil NorthBrazil NortheastBrazil SouthBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-CentralColombiaCosta RicaEcuadorEl SalvadorFrench GuianaGuatemalaGuyanaHondurasNicaraguaPanamáParaguayPeruTrinidad-TobagoVenezuela Leeward Is.Venezuelan AntillesWindward Is.
Native distribution of Pseudalbizzia niopoides, 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. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Argentina Northeast AGE SOUTHERN AMERICA
Belize BLZ
Bolivia BOL
Brazil North BZN
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil South BZS
Brazil Southeast BZL
Brazil West-Central BZC
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Ecuador ECU
El Salvador ELS
French Guiana FRG
Guatemala GUA
Guyana GUY
Honduras HON
Leeward Is. LEE
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Paraguay PAR
Peru PER
Trinidad-Tobago TRT
Venezuela VEN
Venezuelan Antilles VNA
Windward Is. WIN
Mexico Gulf MXG NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Southeast MXT
Mexico Southwest MXS

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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 59 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 11.9 °C 15.6 °C 22.8 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 28.0 °C 31.9 °C 35.8 °C
Annual rainfall 1,150 mm 1,582 mm 2,129 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 21 mm 114 mm 334 mm

It is not found anywhere that gets close to freezing. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 59 research-grade observations of Pseudalbizzia niopoides that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 22 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 guacamayo (Britton & Killip) Standl.
  • Albizia caribaea (Urb.) Britton & Rose
  • Albizia colombiana Britton
  • Albizia guacamayo (Britton & Killip) L.Cárdenas
  • Albizia hassleri (Chodat) Burkart
  • Albizia niopoides (Spruce ex Benth.) Burkart
  • Albizia niopoides var. colombiana (Britton) Barneby & J.W.Grimes
  • Albizia niopoides var. niopoides
  • Albizia paludosa T.Anderson
  • Albizia richardiana King & Prain
  • Albizzia caribaea (Urb.) Britton & Rose
  • Feuilleea niopodes (Spruce ex Benth.) Kuntze
  • Feuilleea niopoides (Spruce ex Benth.) Kuntze
  • Gagnebina richardiana Wall. ex Voigt
  • Gagnebinia richardiana Voigt
  • Pithecellobium caribaeum Urb.
  • Pithecellobium hassleri Chodat
  • Pithecellobium niopoides Spruce ex Benth.
  • Pithecolobium niopoides Benth.
  • Senegalia guacamayo Britton & Rose
  • Senegalia guacamayo Britton & Killip
  • Senegalia liebmannii Britton & Rose

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.