Stryphnodendron

Stryphnodendron is a genus of flowering plant in the legume family, Fabaceae. It includes 28 species of trees and suffrutices native to the tropical Americas, ranging from Nicaragua to Bolivia, Paraguay, and southern Brazil. Typical habitats include tropical rain forest and riparian forest, seasonally dry forest, cerrado (open woodland and savanna), and caatinga (thorn scrub). It belongs to the mimosoid clade of the subfamily Caesalpinioideae.

==Species== Stryphnodendron comprises the following species: Stryphnodendron adstringens Stryphnodendron barbatulum Stryphnodendron confertum Stryphnodendron conicum Stryphnodendron cristalinae Stryphnodendron dryaticum Stryphnodendron excelsum Stryphnodendron flammatum Stryphnodendron flavotomentosum Stryphnodendron foreroi Stryphnodendron glandulosum Stryphnodendron guianense Stryphnodendron harbesonii (not accepted) Stryphnodendron heringeri Stryphnodendron holosericeum Stryphnodendron levelii Stryphnodendron microstachyum Stryphnodendron orinocense Stryphnodendron platycarpum Stryphnodendron platyspicum Stryphnodendron polyphyllum Stryphnodendron porcatum Stryphnodendron pulcherrimum Stryphnodendron riparium Stryphnodendron roseiflorum Stryphnodendron rotundifolium Stryphnodendron velutinum Stryphnodendron venosum