Taxon: Enterolobium cyclocarpum (Jacq.) Griseb.

Common names:

• devil's-ear   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• earpodtree   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• elephant's-ear   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• monkeysoap   (Source: Herbs Commerce ed2 ) – English
  
• bois tanniste rouge   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• oreille d'éléphant   (Source: F LAnt ) – French
  
• Affenseife   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• árbol de las orejas   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• carita   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• corotú   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• guanacaste   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• parota   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: agroforestry   (fide Dict Gard)
  
• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard)
  
• Environmental: shade/shelter   (fide Dict Gard)
  
• Environmental: soil improver   (fide Dict Gard)
  
• Fuels: fuelwood   (fide Firewood Cr)
  
• Materials: beads   (fide Bot Beads World; as web document)
  
• Materials: wood   (fide Trop Leg)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

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View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Tamaulipas
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Chiapas, Colima, Guerrero, Jalisco, Mexico, Michoacan, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Veracruz
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Mesoamerica: Belize; Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Nicaragua; Panama
  Northern South America: Guyana; Venezuela - Apure, Aragua, Barinas, Carabobo, Cojedes, Falcon, Federal District, Guarico, Lara, Miranda, Nueva Esparta, Portuguesa, Yaracuy, Zulia
  Brazil: Brazil - Roraima
  Western South America: Colombia

• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Northern South America: Suriname

• AFRICA
  Africa
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India
  Malesia: Philippines; Singapore
• PACIFIC
  Southwestern Pacific: New Caledonia
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Barbados; Cuba; Dominica; Haiti; Jamaica; Martinique; Montserrat; Puerto Rico; St. Lucia

References:

• Adams, C. 1972. Flowering plants of Jamaica.
• Balick, M. J. et al. 2000. Checklist of the vascular plants of Belize, with common names and uses. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 85.
• Barneby, R. C. & J. W. Grimes. 1996. Silk tree, guanacaste, monkey's earring: a generic system for the synandrous Mimosaceae of the Americas. Part I. Abarema, Albizia, and allies. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 74(1):247, 248. [mentions].
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
• Dugand, A. 1966. Notas sobre la flora de Colombia y paises vecinos. Phytologia 13:392.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Forzza, R. C. et al., coord. Lista de espécies da flora do Brasil (on-line resource).
• Funk, V. et al. 2007. Checklist of the plants of the Guiana Shield (Venezuela: Amazonas, Bolivar, Delta Amacuro; Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana). Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 55:1-584.
• Hokche, O. et al. 2008. Nuevo catálogo de la flora vascular de Venezola.
• Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles. [cult.].
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry. Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER): plant threats to Pacific ecosystems (on-line resource).
• Isely, D. 1973. Leguminosae of the United States: I. Subfamily Mimosoideae. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 25(1):142.
• Jardín Botánico Nacional. 1998–. Flora de la República de Cuba.
• Kumar, S & P. V. Sane. 2003. Legumes of South Asia: a checklist.
• Lewis, G. P. & P. E. Owen. 1989. Legumes of the Ilha de Maraca.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Liogier, H. A. & L. F. Martorell. 1982. Flora of Puerto Rico and adjacent islands: a systematic synopsis.
• Liogier, H. A. 1984–. Descriptive flora of Puerto Rico and adjacent islands.
• Lock, J. M. & C. S. Ford. 2004. Legumes of Malesia: a checklist.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• McVaugh, R. 1983–. Flora Novo-Galiciana.
• Missouri Botanical Garden. W³Tropicos (on-line resource).
• National Academy of Sciences. 1979. Tropical legumes: resources for the future.
• National Academy of Sciences. 1980. Firewood crops. Shrub and tree species for energy production.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Shreve, F. & I. L. Wiggins. 1964. Vegetation and flora of the Sonoran desert.
• Smith, R. J. Botanical beads of the world (on-line resource).
• Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark. 1946–1976. Flora of Guatemala.
• Stevens, W. D. et al., eds. 2001. Flora de Nicaragua. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 85(1-3).
• Wiggins, I. L. 1980. Flora of Baja California.
• Woodson, R. E. & R. W. Schery, eds. 1943–1980. Flora of Panama.
• Zhu, X. Y. et al. 2007. Legumes of China: a checklist.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Enterolobium cyclocarpum.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Enterolobium cyclocarpum.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Enterolobium cyclocarpum.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Inga cyclocarpa (Jacq.) Willd.
  
• (≡) Mimosa cyclocarpa Jacq. (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Enterolobium cyclocarpum (Jacq.) Griseb.:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ILDIS: World Database of Legumes
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images or nodulation data:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• GRIN nodulation data

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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