Enterolobium barinense

Enterolobium barinense
	Enterolobium barinense, nearly ripe pod of a wild tree in Villavicencio, Colombia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Fabales
Family:	Fabaceae
Clade:	Mimosoideae
Genus:	Enterolobium
Species:	E. barinense
Binomial name
	Enterolobium barinense; L.Cárdenas & H.Rodr.-Carr.

Enterolobium barinense, commonly known as caro blanco or oreja de negro, is a species of flowering tree in the pea family, Fabaceae. It was previously thought to be endemic to Venezuela,[1] but it has been located in neighboring Colombia as well.[2] It differs from the very similar and sympatric E. cyclocarpum by its black (instead of reddish-brown) and smoother pods, and by its larger, fewer and more rounded leaflets.

References

Barneby, Rupert C. (1996). "Silk tree, guanacaste, monkey's earring: a generic system of the synandrous Mimosaceae of the Americas. Part I. Abarema, Albizia, and allies". Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden. 74 (1).
Mijares, F.J.; Aymard, G.A.; Pérez-Buitrago, N. (2018). "Nuevos registros para la flora vascular de Colombia presentes en la Orinoquia y reseña histórica de las expediciones botánicas a la región". Biota Colombiana. 18 (2): 72–87.

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[1] Barneby, Rupert C. (1996). "Silk tree, guanacaste, monkey's earring: a generic system of the synandrous Mimosaceae of the Americas. Part I. Abarema, Albizia, and allies". Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden. 74 (1).

[2] Mijares, F.J.; Aymard, G.A.; Pérez-Buitrago, N. (2018). "Nuevos registros para la flora vascular de Colombia presentes en la Orinoquia y reseña histórica de las expediciones botánicas a la región". Biota Colombiana. 18 (2): 72–87.