Dipteryx charapilla is a little-known species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae,[1] a large to mid-sized tree growing along rivers in the rainforests of Brazil.

The bark is covered in lenticels and coloured cream to grey in adults, but greenish in juvenile specimens, with cork scars distributed in depressed, isolated patches (as if the trunk was hammered).

[5] The 22-30mm long flower has a 4-6mm pedicel[4] and a leathery calyx,[2][5] 2-6mm in length[4] and covered in an extremely fine puberulous layer.

[5] The petals form a corolla 14-19mm long consisting of the wings, keel and banner common to this sub-family of plants.

[5] This species was first described as Coumarouna charapilla in 1943 by James Francis Macbride citing as the holotype a sample, JS362, collected in 1935 by the important Peruvian plant collector José M. Lopez Schunke along the river bank of the Río Mazán in Maynas Province, Loreto, Peru.

[5] The second example was discovered in Esperança, Amazonas, Brazil, by Walter Adolpho Ducke in 1942, although it was only identified as such in 1985 by de Lima.

[12] In 1975 a herbarium voucher identified as this species was collected along the banks of the Río Nanay in Maynas Province, Peru.

[13][14] In the most recent monograph on the genus Dipteryx, A Checklist of the Dipterygeae species by the Brazilian researcher Haroldo Cavalcante de Lima in 1989, he synonymised D. charapilla with D.

Aldana et al. report that trees previously identified as D. odorata in Maynas Province, Peru are misidentified, and in actuality are D.

[21] Likely working from the Tropicos database, they mistakenly believed that the taxon was endemic to the Amazon rainforest in the department of Loreto, Peru,[1][22] and that it was "known only from the type locality".

[2] Trees are grown at the Centro de Investigaciones Jenaro Herrera and Puerto Almendras Arboretum in Peru.