- Plants
- ›Vascular Plants
- ›flowering plants
- ›Dicots
- ›Legumes, Milkworts, and Allies
- ›Legumes
- ›Acacias, Mimosas, Mesquites, and Allies
Pentaclethra
Pentaclethra is a small genus of trees from the tropics. They are flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. They belong to the mimosoid clade of the subfamily Caesalpinioideae.
The name Pentaclethra is derived from Ancient Greek, penta meaning 'five', and cleithro meaning 'bolt', which alludes to the five imbricate sepals and five petals joined at the base, characteristic of this genus.
3 branches of this genus, most-observed first
pracaxi
speciesPentaclethra macroloba
African oil bean
speciesPentaclethra macrophylla
Pentaclethra eetveldeana
speciesPentaclethra eetveldeana
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
—
geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Pentaclethra in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 68048.