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Parkia velutina

species of plant

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ15542036 ↗
Source-derived summary

Parkia velutina (common name corezeiro) is a rainforest tree growing to 40 m high, native to tropical South America. It belongs to the subfamily Mimosoideae of the family Fabaceae. The leaves are tripinnate, with 30–45 pairs of primary pinnae (rarely as few as 17 pairs, or up to 55 pairs) arranged opposite or subopposite on the leaf rachis. Each pinna has 40–110 pairs of leaflets. The flowers are produced in a compound, pear-shaped inflorescence, and are pollinated by bees of the genus Megalopta.

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“Parkia velutina” enters the record as species of plant. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Parkia, velutina and species can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical orientation to terminology and classification, particularly when read beside dated observations, specimens or technical literature. The current 83-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Parkia, velutina and species.
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“Parkia velutina” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Parkia, velutina and species provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q15542036. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Parkia velutina” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.