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|accepted_name=Enterolobium
|accepted_authority=Martius
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Flora
|place=20(2,Beibl.): 117. 1837
|year=1837
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Fabaceae;Fabaceae subfam. Caesalpinioideaemimosoidclade;Enterolobium
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Fabaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Fabaceae subfam. Caesalpinioideaemimosoidclade]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Enterolobium]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek enteron, intestine, and lobion, pod or capsule, alluding to curved fruit
|volume=Volume 11
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|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Trees,</b> unarmed. <b>Stems</b> ascending, glabrous or sparsely pubescent. <b>Leaves</b> alternate, even-bipinnate; stipules present, caducous, inconspicuous; rachis glandular mostly distally; petiolate; pinnae 4–10(–15) pairs, opposite; leaflets (24–)30–60, opposite, blade margins entire, surfaces glabrous or sparsely pubescent. <b>Inflorescences</b> ca. 50-flowered, axillary, heads [racemes, fascicles, or flowers solitary]; bracts present. <b>Flowers</b> mimosoid; calyx valvate, campanulate to funnelform, lobes 5; corolla white or cream, lobes 5, valvate, lobes and tube subequal; stamens [10–] ca. 80, connate proximally into short staminal tube; anthers dorsifixed; style slender. <b>Fruits</b> legumes, sessile, compressed, deeply reniform [or circinate], forming a nearly complete spiral, constricted between seeds, indehiscent, woody, glabrous. <b>Seeds</b> (5–)8–9(–14), ellipsoid, transverse, on filiform funicle. <b>x</b> = 13.</span><!--

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|distribution=Florida;West Indies;Central America;South America;introduced also in Africa.
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Species 11 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>Enterolobium cyclocarpum (Jacquin) Grisebach and E. contortisiliquum are cultivated in temperate and tropical areas of the Old World and New World and sometimes naturalized; only the latter is naturalized in North America. The species can easily be distinguished by their fruits; reniform, plump, blackish, dull, and glaucous in E. contortisiliquum; curved to form a complete circle, flattened, dark brown, and lustrous in E. cyclocarpum. The wood of E. cyclocarpum is used commercially; the pods are fed to livestock; the gum is a substitute for gum arabic; the bark and fruits are used for tanning and in soap; and the bark is used medicinally.</p>
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name=Enterolobium
|author=Richard P. Wunderlin
|authority=Martius
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subfamily
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Fabaceae
|distribution=Florida;West Indies;Central America;South America;introduced also in Africa.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Flora
|publication year=1837
|special status=Introduced
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/master/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V11/V11_274.xml
|subfamily=Fabaceae subfam. Caesalpinioideaemimosoidclade
|genus=Enterolobium
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